Jerusalem was once a poor border town city. That's not an oxymoron. That was the situation for Israel's capital from Israel's Independence until two day into the 1967 Six Days War. Now forty-six years after the war, it's hard to believe. The downtown area I photographed here is less than a kilometer (0.62 miles) from that border. The furthest I photographed from the old border was just a kilometer or so. Some of the stores are just a few meters from what was covered by barbed wire and guarded, not that the soldiers could protect civilians from Jordanian sniper fire.
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