Jerusalem Day - with Yehuda Hochman!

 David Rubinger - "Israel Through My Lens"

On June 6, 1967, Israel paratroopers and the IDF recaptured the eastern side of Jerusalem, from the Jordanians. It was a tremendous, Lord directed accomplishment.

One of the most famous photos of that historic, never-turning back time, was that of the four paratroopers pictured above on Rubinger's book "Israel Through My Lens".

Poster from Jerusalem

This poster was bought in Jerusalem in 2010 when my son Ben and I made the first annual "Ahava Adventures" service trip to Israel. We found it in the Israeli poster shop off King George in Jerusalem.

Three of the paratroopers reunited 30 years later from that June 1967 day!

You don't hear much of the fourth paratrooper in the original photo, but he is still alive and well in Jerusalem. His name is Yehuda Hochman, serving now as a tourist guide. (He speaks seven languages!)

It wasn't until the very last hour of the 2008 CFI-USA (Christian Friends of Israel) "Meet & Greet" tour, led by Hannele Pardain, the Director, that many of us realized who Yehuda was! When several at the last dinner, held at the Dan Hotel in Tel Aviv, started asking him for his autograph in this book pictured above, or on another picture of the famous event, I realized that this one, who loved saying "Coffee in. Coffee out." at each bus stop, was the fourth man!

Yehuda Hochman 

- tour guide in 2008 

for our CFI (Christian Friends of Israel) tour!!!

(Photo by Steve Martin - Yehuda Hochman with Hannele Pardain - CFI-USA Director - in front of the Western Wall)