Jerusalem: Millennial Capital‪.‬

RENEE POZNANSKI teaches history and political science at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva. She has written several books on the history of the Second World War. Three thousand years have passed since King David danced in the streets of his new capital, leading the procession that bore the Ark of the Covenant. He had only just captured this place from the Jebusites, in one of the many bloody conflicts that marked his reign. In the twentieth century, the City of David remains the centrepiece of Jewish faith, but now its old stones are held dear by Muslims and Christians as well. And after three millennia, Jerusalem remains a city of exaltation and bloodshed.