These visits were to coincide with three major Jewish festivals :. Many Jewish people still visit Jerusalem today as the focal point of their religion. Synagogues are traditionally orientated towards Jerusalem and Jews position themselves towards the city while reciting the Amidah one of the most important and ancient prayers in Judaism, said three times daily.
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They returned in BCE, though subsequent raids, wars, and exiles followed—including the conquest of Israel by Antiochus and the Syrian-Greek army of the Hanukkah story. In the year 70 CE, the Roman Empire invaded Jerusalem, and in the ensuing centuries the city belonged to a series of rulers from the Byzantine Empire to the Crusaders to several caliphates and sultanates.
A year rule by the Ottoman Turks ended in with the city being controlled by the British in 1, and subseqently as the centerpiece of a partition plan to split Israel in two.
Following the Israeli War of Independence in , Jerusalem was divided.
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