Zion Gate

Zion Gate, breached in Jerusalem's fighting of May 1948, carries the scars of that day: dozens of small bullet craters locals still call the Wounded Gate. This guide follows the Palmach fighters who blew a hole in the wall beside it, trying to reach a Jewish Quarter trapped inside the Old City walls, running low on food and ammunition under Jordanian siege. It traces the failed breakthrough and the days of close combat that followed, and pauses at a doorpost mezuzah cast from spent bullet casings gathered on this spot.