Avi is 41. He is a sanitation engineer and was born and raised in Jerusalem.

"I was in school, in Kitah Daled (4th Grade). I lived in Ma'oz Zion. At night we slept in shelters in the basement underneath the youth club. There were bangings at night, and then we heard all the news. I was happy that Jerusalem was united. I went to the Kotel by way of the shuk, alone at the age of 11. It wasn't dangerous, I think that the Arabs were scared of us."

"At the shuk, the Arabs didn't know at first that the Israeli lira was worth less than the Jordanian lira. They thought they were worth the same. People, thieves really, used to go and buy expensive things with Israeli currency for what worked out to be really cheap prices, until after a few days, the Arabs found out."

"At the start it wasn't only on Yom Yerushalayim, it was all the time, that it felt like a festival. Everyone was happy until the Yom Kippur war. It really felt like peace had come, that there would be peace for a long time, that we could live in peace with the Arabs. We were happy everyday, not only on Yom Yerushalayim. We went to Jerusalem, and we felt that it was one city, we didn't need to do something special in order to feel this."

"On Yom Yerushalayim, I work as usual and then go home. There is no need to do anything special on Yom Yerushalayim. I don't need something to remind me that this is a special day. But, today it has also taken on a different significance, because once again it feels like that part of the city is not ours. Today it isn't so simple. When you go to the Old City, you are not able to feel that the Arabs are our friends. You feel a hatred, and there is a fear. Today the feeling is, that things cannot remain like this for a long time. We don't know what will happen, but definitely there will be something. I don't feel that it's a day to be happy."

"It is difficult for me to understand that for the peace process, it is necessary to divide the city, because at the same moment I want all of Jerusalem. It is difficult for me to say, or think that I wouldn't be able to go to the Kotel, or other parts of Jerusalem, it is difficult for me to consider that. There is no solution."