70 years ago: Israeli Knesset proclaims Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. Zechariah 12:2-3

On January 23, 1950, the Israeli Knesset passed a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel. The proclamation came the day after Colonel Abdullah el Tel, the Arab Legion officer whose forces had pushed the Israelis out of the old walled city of Jerusalem, said in an interview that if the present situation continued, he was "quite sure that all of Jerusalem will one day become a Jewish city. The Arab Legion alone cannot defend the city."

Col. el Tel was right about that. In June 1967, Israeli forces captured old Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, and in 1980 Israel declared sovereignty over Jerusalem. The city continues to be a burdensome stone to the nations, and will be until the Lord Jesus Christ Himself returns to Jerusalem:

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. Zechariah 14:1-4