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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
PM says Jerusalem reunification ‘corrects historic injustice’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Knesset members the Western Wall and the Temple Mount will “forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.”
The prime minister addresses the Knesset plenum on 50th annual celebrations of Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel’s reunification of the city in the 1967 Six Day War.
He says the capture of the Jerusalem holy site corrected “a historic injustice” and the “achievement of brave fighters 50 years ago will remain forever.”
Netanyahu also says it’s “absurd” that many countries choose to have their embassies in Tel Aviv instead of Jerusalem.
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