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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Netanyahu approved the sensitive project in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter; Jordan was informed hours before work began.
Robinson's Arch, on the southern end of the Western Wall.
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.
Never before seen photos from under the Western Wall.
The obligation to bring the Korban Pesach is still in place today.
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.
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.
"It's exciting, there's nothing else to say, it's very exciting."
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.
“The new route provides a better understanding of the complex and important site known as the Western Wall tunnels."
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.
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.
For the first time in Israel’s history, ceremonies and honor guards on Yom Hazikaron will be held at military cemeteries without visitors due to coronavirus restrictions on gatherings
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Muslims should “perform prayers in their homes during the month of Ramadan, to preserve their safety,” the Waqf council said.
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 prayers called upon God to have mercy and cure the Chinese people from the Coronavirus and for the health of all people around the world.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A policeman in a nearby car saw the attack, exited his car and fired in the air, thus extracting the motorist from a potential lynching.
The Western Wall gets a cleaning and checkup, just like going to the dentist.
By JNi.Media
A representative of the city's legal adviser objected to the move, arguing that it could not be sneaked under the guise of accessibility.
Rav Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin prays at the Western Wall.
Ronald Lauder’s position is stale, irrelevant, and not reflective of today’s reality.
The woman who was almost crushed by the errant Kotel stone says a blessing for the miracle that happened to her.
Go behind the scenes into the conflict between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and progressive Jews from the Diaspora. What will the fate of egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall be? Hear more with Gil Hoffman on today's episode of Inside Israel Today.
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.
The Old City of Jerusalem during the Light Festival.
Work is currently being carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which has been contracted to establish the foundation for the new plaza.
By JNi.Media
"In the register beneath the double line is an inscription in ancient Hebrew: 'LESARAR,' with no spacing between the words and no definite article. It denotes 'Lesar Ha'Ir,' meaning 'belonging to the governor of the city.'"
But some Diaspora Jewish groups, particularly in North America, say ... they have no intention of lobbying on behalf of the Netanyahu government.
By JNi.Media
For people who become mortally hurt when this or that Orthodox politician tells them they're not really Jewish, heaping on their heads advice as to how they should improve – US Jews are surprisingly unrestrained when it comes to meddling in the coalition politics of a foreign country.
By JNi.Media
“The State of Israel was, and will always be, the home of every Jew: Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, secular, traditional, Ashkenazi, Sephardi. Jews. We are all one people, and Israel is dear to all of us.”
By JNi.Media
The Reform movement will not meet Netanyahu before he gives back their share of the Western Wall.
By JNi.Media
Excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered large portions of courses of the Western Wall that have been hidden for 1,700 years, including an ancient Roman theater.
By JNi.Media
"I had not moved away even one step, but someone pulled at my sleeve and asked me to join the minyan. I put on a hat and joined them for the Mincha prayer. I had arrived."
MK Taleb Abu Arar (Joint List) stressed “Jews have no rights at al-Aqsa Mosque.”
By JNi.Media
'Most of the Jews in the United States, even those who come to Temple once in fifty years, or those that don’t come at all, are not Reform, and the Reform movement does not represent them.'
Watch this response to UNESCO's lies about Hebron and Israel.
By JNi.Media
'What can the Diaspora give us?' Rabbi Riskin asked, and answered: 'First and foremost, the idea of pluralism, that these, and these, too, are the words of the living God.'
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?
By JNi.Media
Alas, this dispute is not over a connection to God but over political turf, both regarding the Kotel and the conversions.
By JNi.Media
Both of Netanyahu's decisions caused a storm and created a rift with Diaspora Jews, most emphatically in the US.
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.
By JNi.Media
Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
Israel's Cabinet Secretary call on those exploiting the government's Western Wall decision to be precise with the facts.
By Moshe Herman
On his birthday, Yishai hosts Rabbi Mike Feuer at the Western Wall where they discuss false narratives, including those of UNESCO, and Korach's anti-Moses rebellion. Then, Yishai speaks to young Jewish leaders at the Foreign Ministry.
By JNi.Media
The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.
By JNi.Media
Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'
Jibril Rajoub never said the Kotel would be under Israeli sovereignty.
The Cabinet held their weekly meeting in the Western Wall Tunnels.
By JNi.Media
Today, the only access road to the Wailing Wall from the Jewish Quarter is the stairway, a drop of about 26 yards.
Where Trump should have visited.
It appears that once again the Trump administration was blind-sided by someone inside with their own agenda.
Tamar dishes out a spicy platter of political commentary!
What is the significance of Massada and why should foreign leaders visit this historical place?
By Ben Cohen
As we can see (pictured), Ambassador Friedman's heart and HEAD are in the right place.
Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler bumped into the new US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at the Kotel.
By JNi.Media
Escorted by Israeli police, 30 Goldwing members and supporters of Belev Echad took the wounded veterans around Jerusalem for a daylong tour.
By JNi.Media
Rubinger was the Israeli photographer who shot the famous photo of three Israeli paratroopers after the liberation of the Western Wall on the third day of the Six-Day War.
If UNSCR 2334 upset you, another one may be just a week away, and it is far worse.
By JNi.Media
They also issued 'An open letter to the President of the French Republic,' which 'draws attention to France's harmful role vis-à-vis the island of stability and democracy in the Middle East.'
By JNi.Media
In 1994 US envoy to the UN Madeleine Albright insisted on a paragraph-by-paragraph UNSC vote, to edit out language saying Jerusalem was occupied territory.
By JNi.Media
"Over decades, American administrations and Israeli governments had disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the Security Council was not the place to resolve this issue," Netanyahu noted.
By JNi.Media
Habayit Hayehudi Chairman MK Naftali Bennett said on Saturday night that now is the time to switch from retreat to sovereignty.'
By JNi.Media
How will the gang in Ramallah take the news from Washington? Not well, most likely.
By JNi.Media
The coin bears on one side a vine leaf and the statement 'Freedom of Zion.' On the opposite side it bears a standing cup and the statement 'Second year of the great rebellion' – the year 67 CE.
Rabbi Nathan Lopez Cardozo discusses with Walter his controversial and drastic solution to prevent once and for the endless objections to the Orthodox control of all procedures at the Western Wall area.
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.
I am applauding because this UN organization has finally unmasked its real intent.
By JNi.Media
Mexico’s Jewish ambassador to UNESCO in Paris walked out of the hall on Friday because he couldn't bring himself to obey his government’s instructions.
Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat saying Selichot.
They didn't even need to call the fire department to free the cat.
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