State Medal - Gates of Jerusalem ND

Reverse

The verse "Our feet shall stand within they gates 0 Jerusalem", Psalms 122:2, in Hebrew. Within, a stylized gate, the Old City buildings on a sketched background. Around, the English translation of the above verse.

Lettering:
OUR FEET SHAL STAND WITHIN THY GATES O JERUSALEM
עמזות
היו
רגלינו
בשעוין
ירושלים
תהילים קכ"ב,2
Psalms 122,2

Engravers: Nathan Karp, Tidhar Dagan

Edge

The State emblem and the words "State of Israel" in Hebrew and English.

Lettering: STATE OF ISRAEL מדינת ישראל

Comment

"Jerusalem was destroyed, its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the Jerusalem Wall." Thus spoke Nehemiah to the people who returned from the Babylonian Exile (Nehemiah 2:17).
This was but one chapter in the history of the Walls of Jerusalem which have been destroyed many times in the course of generations and then rebuilt along different lines. The contemporary layout was built by Suleiman the Magnificent, the Sultan of Turkey, 430 years ago. Most of the wall rests on earlier foundations and remnants from the Second Commonwealth, the Roman period, the Crusaders, etc. Suleiman the Magnificent also reconstructed six of the seven gates of the wall now open and which surround the Old City over a circumference of four kilometers (the eighth gate is sealed).