45 years later, Company A retraces its steps | The Times of Israel
Forty-five years ago, on the third day of the Six Day War, the paratroopers of Company A, 70th Battalion — tired and frightened young men in camouflage — were the first Israeli soldiers in the Old City, breaking through the Lions Gate under fire, seizing the Temple Mount and securing the Western Wall, an event now remembered as perhaps the pivotal moment of Israel’s history.