For more from Rabbi Goren’s autobiography, see “With Might and Strength,” available online and at Jewish bookstores.
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Rav Goren, a general and the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli army, recalls the excitement of and hurdles to being the first Jew to open the gates of the Cave of the Patriarchs in more than a thousand years
I decided that I was going to attempt to go down to the Kotel, which at that stage no one had yet reached.


