The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall or the Kotel ... is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims ...

The battle for control over the Temple Mount is not solely to do with religion ... threw stones at Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall, wounding a further 150 Palestinians and 20 Israeli ...

In another Temple Mount development, the chief rabbi of Safed ... and the hundreds of thousands of Jews who visit the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu on Wednesday told right-wing news site ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...

As Jewish visits to Judaism’s holiest site increase, Rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, and Temple Mount scholar and tour guide Zheina Fleischer debate the religious and national ...

(JTA) — The Temple Mount is closed to Jewish visitors “until further notice,” the organization that coordinates visits by Jews said Saturday, after a fresh round of clashes between Israeli ...

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