The Western Wall

Courtesy of the Government Press Office. Photographer: Matson Eric

When did Jews first start praying at the “Kotel?” What “favors” did the Jews have to do for the locals in the adjacent Mugrahbi neighborhood to be allowed to visit the Western Wall?

Even when it was forbidden to bring a Torah Scroll, how did the Jews pray here on the Sabbath morning? What caused the uproar after Yom Kippur during the British Mandate?

Which Jews tried to buy the area near the Kotel?

Which Shofar did Rabbi Shlomo Goren blow after being barred from visiting for 19 years? What cause the first argument to arise before prayers after those 19 years?

An experiential lecture with visual presentations of the jewish history of the Kotel, showing more than meets the eye, from the medieval times until today.

Categories: Middle Ages