ISRAEL/JORDAN BORDER: CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS PASS THROUGH MANDELBAUM GATE ON THEIR WAY TO BETHLEHEM

Record ID: 399419

  • Title: ISRAEL/JORDAN BORDER: CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS PASS THROUGH MANDELBAUM GATE ON THEIR WAY TO BETHLEHEM
  • Date: 24th December 1965
  • Summary: PEOPLE WAITING TO CROSS THE FRONTIER, OFFICIALS CHECKING PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH THE GATE AND GENERAL SCENES AS THE CROWDS PASS THROUGH. Initials DE/VS/RM/JG Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th January 1966 12:00
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  • Location: MANDELBAUM GATE, ISRAEL/JORDAN FRONTIER
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  • Country: Israel Jordan
  • Reuters ID: LVA72PIVSSO3ZBHJ86TECK5G2JOQ
  • Story Text: ISRAEL AND JORDAN TODAY (FRIDAY) LIFTED THE BARRIERS THAT DIVIDE THEM TO ALLOW THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS LIVING IN ISRAEL TO CROSS INTO JORDAN TO VISIT BETHLEHEM -- THE BIRTHPLACE OF CHRIST. AT THE MAIN CROSSING POINT IN JERUSALEM -- THE MANDELBAUM GATE -- HUNDREDS QUEUED ALL NIGHT TO AWAIT THE LOWERING OF THE BARRIER.

    THE TWO COUNTRIES TRADITIONALLY SHELVE THEIR HOSTILITY TO ENABLE CHRISTIANS TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM, WHICH HAS BEEN IN JORDAN SINCE THE PALESTINE WAS IN 1948.

    MANY OF THE PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH THE GATE INTO JORDAN WERE GREETED BY RELATIVES. ABOUT EIGHT THOUSAND PILGRIMS HAVE BEEN GRANTED PERMITS TO CROSS FROM THE ISRAELI TO THE JORDANIAN SECTOR OF JERUSALEM THIS CHRISTMAS. NEARLY FIVE THOUSAND PASSED THROUGH THE MANDELBAUM GATE IN THE FIRST FEW HOURS AFTER IT WAS OPENED.
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