Children's Board game for teaching about Jerusalem within the walls after its conquest and reunification as the capital in the Six Day War. Published by "Peretz Games", Jerusalem, 1967. Complete.
The game board with a large illustrated map (by R. Sass) of the Old City in Jerusalem from east to west, with the Temple Mount and Western Wall at top, is designed to teach children the parts of Jerusalem within the walls that were captured during the war. Each player receives four game pieces, the goal is to move them along the wall and visit as many historic sites as possible, following the directions on the cards according to the spinner on the bottom right of the board. Site names on the cards introduce the special atmosphere through people and places in the Old City, for example the Mosque of Omar is described: "Among the most magnificent in the world - known as the Dome of the Rock", one card shows an Arab riding a donkey with the text "The common means of transport in the Old City", another card shows an "English tourist capturing the Old City on film", "An Arab Effendi smoking a waterpipe", "The destroyed synagogue Yeshivat Porat Yosef", "An Arab woman's face covered according to Muslim tradition", "An Arab offering his wares for sale", "A rabbi with his disciple on the way to cheder", "A Jew praying at the Western Wall", "Rachel's Tomb - burial place of Jacob's wife Rachel", etc.
On the game board were illustrated figures of Jews, Christians, and Arabs in Jerusalem. The right and left sides have six medallions with illustrations of major religious sites and buildings in Jerusalem - Cave of the Patriarchs, Rachel's Tomb, Yad Absalom, Rockefeller Museum, Hebrew University, Russian Church.
The game includes:
Game board: 51x49 cm.
108 numbered cards printed with the names of historical sites in Jerusalem and its environs.
7 cards printed with names of the Old City gates.
19 plastic "soldiers".
The game instructions were printed on the inside of the box in Hebrew and parallel in English.
Complete game. Box: 41x26x4 cm. Sales tax sticker on side of box. Overall good condition.
