A combination picture shows Palestinians standing in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken June 23, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
A combination picture shows Israeli commander Motta Gur and his brigade observing the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, from their command post on the Mount of Olives just prior to their attack of Jerusalem's Old City, during the 1967 Middle East War, in Jerusalem, in this Government Press Office handout picture taken June 7, 1967 (top) and visitors taking pictures in the same location May 15, 2017.
A combination picture shows men and women standing in separate sections as they visit the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken September 1, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Fritz Cohen/Government Press Office/Handout via Reuters
A combination picture shows Arab legion positions seen under fire to clear way for Israeli units to takeover the hills surrounding the Jerusalem's Old City during the 1967 Middle East War, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken June 6, 1967 (top) and the view of the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz in the foreground and Mount of Olives in the background May 14, 2017.
A combination picture shows an ancient archway and ramp leading to the Qayt Bay fountain or Sabil Qaitbay (Center, lower court), on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken August 23, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
A combination picture shows a boy selling bagels in an alley of Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken July 14, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
A combination picture shows people walking near Damascus Gate leading into Jerusalem's Old City in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken July 14, 1967 (top) and the same location May 14, 2017.
A combination picture shows an ancient archway and ramp leading to the Qayt Bay fountain or Sabil Qaitbay (Center, lower court), on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken August 23, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
A combination picture shows a boy selling bagels in an alley of Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken July 14, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
A combination picture shows men sitting at a sidewalk cafe in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken June 19, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
A combination picture shows an Arab woman shopping at a stall selling freshly ground spices at a market in Jerusalem, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken July 1, 1967 (top) and a man buying freshly ground spices from the same stall May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Ilan Bruner/Government Press Office/Handout via Reuters
A combination picture shows Arab legion positions seen under fire to clear way for Israeli units to takeover the hills surrounding the Jerusalem's Old City during the 1967 Middle East War, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken June 6, 1967 (top) and the view of the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz in the foreground and Mount of Olives in the background May 14, 2017.
A combination picture shows people walking near Damascus Gate leading into Jerusalem's Old City in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken July 14, 1967 (top) and the same location May 14, 2017.
A combination picture shows Palestinians standing in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken June 23, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Moshe Pridan/Government Press Office/Handout
A picture shows Israeli commander Motta Gur and his brigade observing the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, from their command post on the Mount of Olives just prior to their attack of Jerusalem's Old City, during the 1967 Middle East War, in Jerusalem, in this Government Press Office handout picture taken June 7, 1967.
A combination picture shows men sitting at a sidewalk cafe in Jerusalem's Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken June 19, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017.
1967 war: Jerusalem Then and Now
Israel will soon mark the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, a conflict during which it captured the Old City of Jerusalem and more than two dozen Palestinian villages around it from Jordan, laying the foundations of a long-simmering dispute. In an effort to illustrate changes in the city over the past 50 years, Reuters has assembled from an Israeli government archive a collection of photos taken in Jerusalem in 1967. Reuters photographers then took pictures of the same sites as they are today.
