ABSTRACT
The Second World War and the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel, fundamentally changed things. In 1978, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority decided to produce a documentary film for television about the Armenian community in the Old City of Jerusalem. The film included several references to the Armenian massacre during the First World War, primarily the testimony by several survivors of the genocide of 1915 who resided in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The murder of the Armenians was a central component in understanding the motives of the Nili's activity. A compromise proposal by which the Armenian genocide would not be given a prominent place on the conference agenda but would be treated as background material was also rejected by the Foreign Ministry. The United States House of Representatives had rejected two similar attempts, in 1985 and 1987, to determine a memorial day for the Armenian genocide.
