Many people on both sides of the conflict have died and that is regrettable. No human death should ever be celebrated. In no way do we deny this. We are all created in the image of G-d and are G-d’s children. Any loss of life is unfortunate. 

Here at EY, we pray for a resolution of the conflict that brings about everlasting peace. 

Where else, other than in Israel…

• is the Chanukah menorah lit on television every night of Chanukah?
• is Sefirat Ha’Omer, the Omer counted on TV?
• do news announcer and all  sorts of public officials sportsefira/shloshim/three weeks  and other Jewish religious beards while doing their public jobs as usual?
• does the television news announcer consider it important to explain to the viewers that the Prime Minister’s clip about Herzl was recorded before the death of his father?  Nobody should think that the Prime Minister wasn’t sitting a proper shiva (mourning period) for his father, Benzion Netanyahu.

Thank G-d.  Things are getting better.  Look at the good and don’t concentrate on the bad.

Old post but relevant.

The Children of Israel arrived at Rephidim on the 23rd of Iyar, — 38 days after their exodus from Egypt.

Rephidim was desert land and waterless, the people grumbled that they and their flocks were in danger of dying of thirst. G-d commanded Moses to take the elders of the people to a rock which he was to hit with his staff. Moses hit the rock and from the dry stone, a well sprang forth.

Food in the Desert: www.chabad.org/246633&sc=fb

In 63 BCE (before the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 70CE) the Romans captured Jerusalem.

324-638 was the Byzantine rule over Jerusalem.

638-1099 was the first Muslim rule over Jerusalem

1099-1187 was the Crusade period, marking once again Christian rule over Jerusalem.

1187-1250 was the Ayyubid Period, where Saladin captured Jerusalem and the Crusaders ruled over Jerusalem for the second and third times briefly.

1250-1516 Mamaluk Period - Muslim rule again

1516-1917 - Ottoman rule

1917-1948 British Mandate

1948 -Jerusalem divided between Israel and Jordan

1967 - Jerusalem is re-unified

1967 marked the first time Jerusalem, the Jewish people’s eternal capital was in Jewish hands after almost two millennia. While Jews maintained a presence in Jerusalem, they were not the political rulers of the city, just a poor community.

Sorry for the brief answer. Here’s a helpful link.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/jerutime.html

http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist%20Information/Discover%20Israel/Cities/Pages/Jerusalem.aspx#Paragraph4

https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/english/tour/history/history.html