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• Thus, the Bar Kokhba Revolt ended up as a disaster for the Jewish people. Having lost the Temple in A.D. 70. They now lost the Holy City, Jerusalem. Jews were banished from ever again entering Jerusalem. Jerusalem was destroyed, flattened, ploughed over, and rebuilt as a Roman city. It remained that way for centuries. Prior to Jerusalem once again being in the hands of the Jewish people after the Six Day War in 1967, the closest Jews ever got to the Temple was the Western Wall in Jerusalem - the remains of the massive wall that Herod had built around the Temple before the Romans destroyed it in A.D. 70. Today, that Western Wall is an iconic image in modern-day Jerusalem. It is nearly all that remains from the vast destruction by the Romans.