Ammunition Hill Park

This guide to Ammunition Hill Park in Jerusalem centers on the night of June 6, 1967, when Israeli paratroopers assaulted a fortified Jordanian position built years earlier by the British to guard a police academy's ammunition. Within minutes the officers leading the charge were dead, and it fell to ordinary privates, among them a soldier named Jacob Haimovitch, to keep the attack moving through trenches so narrow men could barely turn around. You'll hear how the fight came to be remembered as the privates' battle. Walk the reconstructed trenches to follow the same route, corner by corner.