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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Jordan wants to take charge of the construction of the new Mughrabi Gate ramp leading from the Temple Mount to the Western Wall Plaza, but the government says Amman is seeking to take advantage of Israel's weak position on construction in the Old City and the rest of the capital.
Jordan submitted a request to...
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Following a attack by hundreds of Palestinian youths hurling rocks at the Western Wall Plaza below, violence spread to other parts of the capital.
The rioting began immediately after Friday’s sermon and prayers at Al-Aksa Mosque, spilling into the Muslim Quarter as well.
In the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amud, some 20 Arab youths were...
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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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Visitors at the Western Wall were in for a surprise last week: Offering no explanation, a man arrived, left a Torah scroll and quickly left the scene. Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, who oversees the Western Wall and the holy sites, discovered the scroll was worth tens of thousands of dollars.
He consulted with the official sofer...
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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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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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