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The 7th and final Jewish Holiday tetrad lunar eclipse sequence of the 1st and 2nd Millenniums began just weeks before the 6 Day War and Israeli capture of Jerusalem.

Passover: April 24, 1967 - Total lunar eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas

Tabernacles: October 18, 1967 - Total lunar eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas

Passover: April 13, 1968 - Total lunar eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa

Tabernacles: October 6, 1968 - Total lunar eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas

Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol sent a message to King Hussein of Jordan saying Israel would not attack Jordan unless he initiated hostilities. When Jordanian radar picked up a cluster of planes flying from Egypt to Israel, and the Egyptians convinced Hussein the planes were theirs, he then ordered the shelling of West Jerusalem. It turned out the planes were Israel's, and were returning from destroying the Egyptian air force on the ground. Meanwhile, Syrian and Iraqi troops attacked Israel's northern frontier. Had Jordan not attacked, the status of Jerusalem would not have changed during the course of the war. Once the city came under fire, however, Israel needed to defend it, and, in doing so, took the opportunity to unify its capital once and for all. On the third day of the war, June 7, 1967, Israeli Defense Forces paratroopers seized control of the Western Wall, the remnant of Solomon's temple. In an emotional moment, General Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the chief chaplain of the IDF blew a long note on the Shofar (rams horn), announcing the release of the Western Wall and the old city of Jerusalem.