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Western Wall. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', [1] often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق, Ḥā'iṭ al-Burāq ['ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ'raːq]), is a portion of ancient limestone wall in the ...
A girl places a note into a crack of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Placing notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks of the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem . It is claimed that occurrence of such a phenomenon dates from the early ...
Western Wall camera. A Western Wall camera, also known as a wallcam, is a live webcam that displays action at the Western Wall live as it is taking place. Some cameras operate all the time. Others refrain from operating during Shabbat and Jewish holy days .
Shuckling. A Jewish man (top right) shuckling at the Wailing Wall. Shuckling (also written as shokeling ), from the Yiddish word meaning "to shake", [1] is the ritual swaying [2] of worshippers during Jewish prayer, usually forward and back but also from side to side.
Western Wall Tunnel. / 31.7770; 35.2345. The Western Wall Tunnel ( Hebrew: מנהרת הכותל, translit.: Minharat Hakotel) is a tunnel exposing the Western Wall slightly north from where the traditional, open-air prayer site ends and up to the Wall's northern end. Most of the tunnel is in continuation of the open-air Western Wall and is ...
The International Commission for the Wailing Wall [1] (aka 1930 Western Wall Commission) was a commission appointed by the British government, under their responsibilities in the Mandate for Palestine, in response to the 1929 Palestine riots. The Commission appointed by the UK Government. [1]
Pro–Wailing Wall Committee. Early image (c. 1910) of Dr. Joseph Klausner, founder of the Pro–Wailing Wall Committee. The Pro–Wailing Wall Committee was established in Mandatory Palestine on 24 July 1929, [1] by Joseph Klausner, professor of modern Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, [2] to promote Jewish rights at the ...
17 August – A Jewish youth, Avraham Mizrahi, is killed during a minor dispute and an Arab youth picked at random is stabbed in retaliation. [7] 23 August – 1929 Palestine riots: The 1929 Palestine riots break out following months of tension over the Western Wall, a large violent mob of Arabs, armed with knives, stormed out of the Damascus ...