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Robinson's Arch, on the southern end of the Western Wall.
Among the projects to be worked on: Kotel Elevator, Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, Davidson Center, Hurva complex, Cardo...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal will add approximately 60 million shekels ($16.5 million) to the five-year project.
Photos from the military ceremony at the Kotel.
Never before seen photos from under the Western Wall.
The rabbi of the Western Wall released a statement expressing shock at the woman's actions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Shas also distanced itself from the proposal, saying it never intended to criminalize improper attire or musical instruments at the holy site.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Schneur Oirechman, Chabad emissary in Tallahassee, Fla., read the note, which he then placed in the Western Wall as is customary.
Visitors taking the elevator to the Kotel will be able to see the ancient Jewish ritual bath.
The most sacred place for the Jewish people isn’t Jerusalem or the Western Wall, it’s the Temple Mount.
Netanyahu had a Jerusalem Day message.
The Kotel was packed on Sunday morning for celebratory holiday prayers of Jerusalem Day.
Arab media is going wild over the massive Israeli flag unfurled at the Kotel.
The muezzin's loudspeaker is usually on full volume whenever there is a large Jewish event at the Kotel.
Jews hold a special prayer session at the Kotel following the wave of terror attacks this past week that have murdered eleven people.
There are reports of Israeli dead and wounded. The terrorist was neutralized.
Kariv has preciously used his parliamentary immunity as an MK to break the rules of the Kotel plaza.
An open letter to Minister Meirav Michaeli in response to her comments on freeing the Western Wall.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The amethyst seal was discovered at The Sifting Project while examining soil samples from the base of the Western Wall.
By Yori Yalon
Warnings by experts on the tenuous state of the bridge prompt the Western Wall Heritage Foundation to begin partial renovations of the temporary structure.
The Chain of Generations Center has been completely revamped to include enhanced, integrated content using state-of-the-art technology.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The special event, which is usually held only once on Passover and once on Sukkot, was held on both Monday and Tuesday this Passover.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers?
By Israel Hayom
“Who would have believed that peace would come to our home in such a glorious way? It is a Hanukkah miracle,” says Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
The new Kotel brochures in Arabic were produced in honor of the Abraham Accords signed with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and countries which will hopefully follow in their footsteps.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to researchers, the tiny gem seal, the third ever found in Jerusalem from the Second Temple period, was likely the property of a Jew.
On Saturday night, Ashkenazi Jews begin saying Selichot. Plus video from the Kotel.
In the Sephardic tradition, recital of Selichot in preparation for the High Holidays begins on the second day of the Hebrew month of Elul.
The police also arrested several Muslims who reacted violently to the Jews’ visits at the holy site.
By Israel Hayom
The center, reportedly known as the “Khan Abu Khadija,” was renovated by the Turkish government aid organization TIKA, which has been investing heavily in eastern Jerusalem in recent years.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Forgoing rent, free venues for ad-hoc weddings, free babysitting, food donations, and more. Israelis are finding ways to help one another through this crisis.
The Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE) hosted 120 boys and girls from across Europe, in Israel, to help them get in touch with their Jewish roots and heritage.
Netanyahu keeps an eye our for the impending rain storm.
The Western Wall gets a cleaning and checkup, just like going to the dentist.
Rav Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin prays at the Western Wall.
The woman who was almost crushed by the errant Kotel stone says a blessing for the miracle that happened to her.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PM Netanyahu leveled criticism at Culture Minister Miri Regev, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked for refusing to support expansion of an egalitarian prayer space at the holy site, said “I'll handle this” • Dozens of rabbis urge ministers to oppose “desecration” of Kotel.
Videos from the Jotel on teh 17th of Tammuz fast day
There's nothing like spending Pesach in Jerusalem.
A young Hareidi man in the IDF's paratroopers unit was surprised at the Kotel...
The whole Western Wall affair is a PR manipulation by some parties who wish to cause chaos in Israel.
Britney Spears was mobbed by people during her visit to the Kotel.
There is only one place in the world, where there is near 100% certainty that the children and grandchildren of Progressive Jews will remain Jewish.
It seems we're more divided than ever before from Reform fury over the Kotel compromise to Ultra-Orthodox rage at the IDF draft. Today on Israel Inspired Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel discuss could the key to redemption be hidden within this internal Jewish strife?
This tweet by Eugene Kontorovich sums up the Kotel conflict in 140 letters or less.
Victory at the Kotel.
By Elli Fischer
When Uri Regev spins Rabbi Amar's statements to mean the Rabbi aspires to see all Reform Jews dead, he, too, is engaging in the same sort of grandiose and cynical populism of Korah.
Israel's Cabinet Secretary call on those exploiting the government's Western Wall decision to be precise with the facts.
Jibril Rajoub never said the Kotel would be under Israeli sovereignty.
It appears that once again the Trump administration was blind-sided by someone inside with their own agenda.
Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler bumped into the new US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Kotel.
A super long Megilla unrolled at the Kotel on Purim.
David Friedman owns an apartment in Talbieh.
Marchers protested UNESCO's effort to erase Judaism from the Jewish people's holiest sites.
By JNi.Media
On Wednesday morning, a large group of non-Orthodox Jews marched carrying Torah scrolls to protest restrictions on non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall.
Here is what Selichot looked like at the Kotel in 2013.
They didn't even need to call the fire department to free the cat.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
My suggestion: Restore the Kotel to its former state, a place where all are welcome and used solely for individual prayer and meditation, just as our ancestors treated it throughout our long history.
Here are photos of some of the representatives from the Reform and Conservative Movements during their Protest-Prayer Rally at the Kotel plaza.
By JNi.Media
The mixed service is now a retaliation against Jerusalem Chief Rabbi's division of the designated mixed-prayer area.
A journalist heard about an old Rabbi who visited the Kotel, the Western Wall, to pray there three time a day, every day for 50 years. Thinking it was a great story, he traveled to the Kotel, and watched the old man at prayer. When he finished, the reporter went over to interview the rabbi […]
Police feel they will be unable to protect Jewish worshipers on their way to and from the Kotel via the Muslim Quarter.
Ari Fuld, standing on the roof of Yeshivat Netivat Aryeh, gives us a top-down view of the Kotel plaza, with tens of thousands of lovers of Jerusalem overflowing the square.
My family was at the Western Wall in Jerusalem along with tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends...
Stabbing victim had just become Israeli citizen, said he still plans to join the IDF.
PM Netanyahu lit the Chanukiah at the Kotel on the first night of Chanukah.
The Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft resolution to declare the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb and the Patriachs Cave as "Palestinian."
Hizzoner is in Israel this weekend. Unlike his predecessors, he planned a trip to a Ramallah school, but the wave of terror nixed it.
Tens of thousands of Jews are expected to arrive at the Western Wall at 4:30 p.m.
Muslim terrorists pray for war. Jews pray for peace.
On Wednesday morning, there was a mass Birkat HaCohanim (Priestly Blessing) during the morning prayers, where the Cohanim (priestly caste) blessed the people. I've never seen so many selfies and photos in the middle of Birkat HaCohanim!
Today, the Jewish people had the opportunity to perform a relatively rare commandment called Hahkel. Devarim 31:10-13 10: And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, 11: when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy […]
By JNi.Media
Ahead of their trip to Israel residents of the Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale and Jewish Home at Rockleigh have built replica Western Walls.
A rally for Jewish rights on Temple Mount will take place miles away.
"Including the Kotel along with Yad VaShem and Mt. Herzl changes Zionism from 100 years to 3,000 years."
By JNi.Media
The purpose of the UNESCO heritage project is not to decide political issues, but to protect cultural sites, unless it involves Jews and Jerusalem.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Final steps are underway for building the City of David’s “Kedem” visitor’s center in Jerusalem that will sit on top of the “Givati Parking Lot” excavation just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem’s walls. The visitor’s center will serve as an entryway to the Jerusalem Walls National Park, which includes the City of David […]
A group of Muslim tourists visited the Kotel the other week. They weren't yelled at, they weren't assaulted, they didn't need police protection. If they chose to, they could have even prayed. What a shame a Jew can't do the same on the Temple Mount.
His "listening tour" will include a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
A 37-year old Chareidi man, Meir Lebel "haRakdan haYerushalmi" (the dancing Jerusalemite), was seen breathing fire at the Kotel, the Tower of David and other locations in Jerusalem's Old City on April 29, 2015. Fire breathing is the act of creating a plume of fire by breathing a stream of fuel over an open flame. […]
Ahead of Pesach, Kotel employees clean out the Western Wall from all the notes, or "Kvitlach", placed there by visiting worshipers. There is a tradition that when visiting the Kotel, you can write a prayer or request and then place it in the wall. Twice a year the notes are gathered up, and then buried […]
The bus was heavily damaged in the attack.
"I Respect the President Barak Obama." That's what he said. We don’t know what meant.
July 3, 2026 
