The city where three world religions converge, four centuries of empire have claimed, and a political conflict remains unresolved — compressed into one square kilometer of contested sacred geography
Jerusalem is the most fought-over city in human history. It has been destroyed twice, besieged twenty-three times, attacked fifty-two times, and captured and recaptured forty-four times. It is simultaneously real estate and metaphysics — a city where the question of who controls which street is also a question about the structure of salvation.