Lenny Ben-David is the director of publications at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the author of American Interests in theHoly Land Revealed in Early Photographs (Urim). He is at work on a book about World War I in the Holy Land.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification in the Six-Day War. It also marks the 100th anniversary of a fierce World War I battle that saved the city from destruction.