News report titled: דגל ציון על הר הבית The flag of Zion on the Temple Mount

Maariv's special edition of 7 June 1967 announced the return to הר הבית HAR HAʾBAYIT through the language of Zion. A front-page reproduction accompanying Shlomo Man's 2016 review shows the newspaper's masthead, issue date, special-edition label, and time 16:30 together with the headline. Its wording linked the military achievement to a Jewish national and sacred geography.¹

The choice of Zion made the headline more than an announcement of a unit's location. For עם ישראל AM YISRAʾEL, הר הבית HAR HAʾBAYIT belongs to the remembered and living center of national history. The flag could signify the restoration of Jewish power at a place from which Jewish access had been excluded under Jordanian rule. The liberation of the Old City and renewed access to הכותל HAʾKOTEL gave that language a concrete setting.²

Man draws attention to the editor's choice of Zion where the state's name might have appeared. That is his interpretation of a visible wording choice, not testimony from the editor about a private intention. He also observes that the special edition used an archive photograph: an image on a front page is not necessarily a photograph taken that day.³

The headline establishes the newspaper's public framing of the moment. It does not establish the arrangements subsequently made for worship, policing, or administration on הר הבית HAR HAʾBAYIT. Nor does one edition describe the reactions of every Jewish reader, the city's Arab residents, or other religious communities. The political power signified by a flag and the policies exercised under it require separate evidence.