Editing Western Wall (section)

====Declarations after the conquest====
[[File:צנחנים בכותל המערבי.jpg|thumb|right|The iconic image of Israeli soldiers shortly after the capture of the Wall during the [[Six-Day War]]]]

Following Israel's victory during the 1967 [[Six-Day War]], the Western Wall came under Israeli control. Brigadier Rabbi [[Shlomo Goren]] proclaimed after its capture that "Israel would never again relinquish the Wall", a stance supported by Israeli Minister for Defence [[Moshe Dayan]] and Chief of Staff General [[Yitzhak Rabin]].<ref name=JR67>{{cite book |author1=Maurice David Japheth |author2=P. K. Rajiv |title=The Arab Israel conflict: an Indian viewpoint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3qm7AAAAIAAJ |year=1967 |publisher=Pearl Publications |page=19 |quote=The Chief Chaplain of the Army, Brigadier (Rabbi) Goren, offered prayers for four hours at the Wall. He proclaimed that Israel would never again relinquish the Wall. A little later, the Minister for Defence, Moshe Dayan, accompanied by the Chief of Staff, General Yitzhak Rabin, arrived. They repeated the pledge of the Rabbi. "Today we have reunited Jerusalem. We have returned to all that is holy in our land. We have returned, never to be parted from it again," Dayan said.}}</ref> Rabin described the moment Israeli soldiers reached the Wall:

<blockquote>"There was one moment in the Six-Day War which symbolized the great victory: that was the moment in which the first paratroopers—under [[Mordechai Gur|Gur]]'s command—reached the stones of the Western Wall, feeling the emotion of the place; there never was, and never will be, another moment like it. Nobody staged that moment. Nobody planned it in advance. Nobody prepared it and nobody was prepared for it; it was as if Providence had directed the whole thing: the paratroopers weeping—loudly and in pain—over their comrades who had fallen along the way, the words of the [[Kaddish]] prayer heard by Western Wall's stones after 19 years of silence, tears of mourning, shouts of joy, and the singing of '[[Hatikvah]]'".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign+Relations/Israels+Foreign+Relations+since+1947/1995-1996/Address+to+the+Knesset+by+Prime+Minister+Rabin+on+Jerusalem.htm |title=Address to the Knesset by Prime Minister Rabin on Jerusalem, May 29, 1995 |last=Rabin |first=Yitzchak |date=May 29, 1995 |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}</ref></blockquote>