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Review: Christian Broadcasting Network Docudrama "In Our Hands - The Battle for Jerusalem"
(New English Review) Jerry Gordon - On Tuesday, the eve of Jerusalem Day in Israel, upwards of 400,000 people in 700+ theaters across America watched the engrossing, and at times emotionally charged, Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) production of "In Our Hands-The Battle for Jerusalem." Those of us who were young adults in 1967, with fear and anxiety were glued to transistor radios waiting to hear whether Israel would survive annihilation. "In Our Hands" depicts a dinner given by a Jewish family in Jerusalem on the eve of the battle. An 86-year-old grandmother, a refugee from the Jewish Quarter in the Old City overrun by Jordanian legionnaires in 1948, brings out an Israeli flag that had been taken down when she and 1,600 others were forced to leave at the end of the siege. She gifted it to a paratroop commander with the hope for returning it to fly from the Temple Mount. There is also archival color footage of the breach of Lions Gate and audio of the race to the Western Wall and Temple Mount, amidst sniper fire.