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the camp on Cyprus where the British had crammed in thirty thousand Jews, all survivors of the Holocaust and all with only one goal: to reach Palestine.
From here, tradition had it, the prophet Mohammed had ascended to heaven on his horse, accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel. After Mecca and Medina, it was the most important site of Islam, built by the Muslims right where the Temple of the Jews had once stood. When Roman legionnaires destroyed the Temple two thousand years before, they’d left the part of the foundation now known as the Wailing Wall.
