Jerusalem: Center of Conflict, Center of Peace.
3,500 years of conflict.Sitting on a rocky promontory, watered by springs, some 760 meters (2,500 feet) up in the hills between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, Jerusalem has been settled for 5,000 years.
Much of its religious significance stems from a Jewish belief that a spot now covered by the landmark golden Dome of the Rock is where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son to God as a mark of his faith, before an angel stayed his hand.
Later, Christians and Muslims wove these and other ideas stemming from Jerusalem into their own faiths.