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Barkat calls British ad authority’s Kotel ban ‘a shameful accusation’

Barkat calls British ad authority’s Kotel ban ‘a shameful accusation’

Mayor Nir Barkat called the British Government’s condemnation of the use of pictures of the Western Wall in Tourism Ministry advertisements “a shameful accusation.” Earlier this week Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) barred the country’s tourist board from using images of the holy site, branding it “misleading.” “The Western Wall is the heart...
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Palestinians hurl stones at Western Wall Plaza

Eighteen policemen suffered light wounds trying to restore order after Arab youths emerging from Friday prayers started hurling rocks down onto those worshiping at the Western Wall. Police used stun grenades, sponge bullets and pepper gas to quell the violence. Palestinians reported some 60 worshipers injured from gas inhalation in the clashes eventually withdrew in...
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iPhone app brings prayers to Jerusalem

The Jerusalem city portal, Jerusalem.com, recently launched an iPhone application that enables people from around the world to have their prayers heard in Jerusalem. Prayers sent with the iPhone application are played in Jerusalem using a special sound system in Jerusalem’s historic Yemin Moshe neighborhood, overlooking the Old City walls. The iPhone application, called jPray, allows...
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The Wall is Wailing

OPINION - Neither facts nor logic have impeded champions of Nofrat Frenkel, the woman briefly detained by police at the Western Wall on November 18. Needless to say, Ms. Frenkel's charge that she was unnecessarily manhandled by police should be responsibly investigated. Even a violator of the law has the right to be detained in...
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