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A 1,300-year-old menorah-decorated pendant was found at the Davidson Archaeological Park in Jerusalem, in a discovery announced on December 15, 2025. (Eliyahu Yanai/City of David)
December 16, 2025, 1:07 am
1,300-year-old menorah pendant suggests Rome couldn’t keep all Jews out of Jerusalem
After Holy City was razed in 135 CE, an edict seemed designed to prevent a Jewish return. The discovery of an ancient artifact indicates some tenacious residents refused to stay away
By Rossella Tercatin
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews pray near the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, June 18, 2018. Officially, Jewish prayer atop the mount is forbidden. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ Times of Israel/ File)
July 18, 2021, 2:31 pm
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Daniella Goldberg (left), with Culture Minister Miri Regev, inspects the damage caused by a large stone that dislodged from the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City on July 23, 2013, at the mixed-gender prayer section. The boulder fell close to where Goldberg was praying. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 18, 2020, 6:37 am
Work to secure Western Wall stones in egalitarian area completed
Efforts came after 400-pound stone dislodged from Robinson’s Arch in July 2018 and crashed down on platform designated for mixed prayer, just missing a 79-year-old worshiper
By Marcy Oster
A small 7th century BCE clay sealing reading 'Belonging to Adoniyahu, Royal Steward,' recently discovered in the City of David's sifting project, taken from earth excavated under Robinson's Arch. (Eliyahu Yanai/Courtesy City of David)
September 9, 2019, 3:01 pm
Tiny First Temple seal impression found with name of Bible-era royal steward
Inscribed with ‘Belonging to Adoniyahu, Royal Steward,’ a clay sealing from the 7th century BCE uncovered from earth excavated at the foundations of the Western Wall
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Richard Sandler, chairman of the Jewish Federation of North America in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 24, 2018, 5:47 pm
Liberal Jewish leaders sound skeptical note on PM’s Western Wall promises
Head of Conservative movement in Israel says Netanyahu’s past words haven’t been ‘translated into reality,’ while Reform counterpart calls speech to Diaspora Jews ‘scandalous’
By ToI Staff
View of the site where a large chunk of stone dislodged from the Western Wall in Jerusalem at the mixed-gender prayer section on July 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 23, 2018, 4:09 pm
Archaeologist says entire Western Wall is ‘danger zone,’ public should stay away
Warning of ‘multiple cracks’ after boulder falls, Zachi Dvira says people should not be allowed near holy site — neither in the mainstream prayer pavilion nor at Robinson’s Arch
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A boulder from the Western Wall falls onto a prayer platform on July 23, 2018 (Courtesy/The Western Wall Heritage Foundation via the Masorti Movement of Israel)
July 23, 2018, 2:05 pm
Western Wall rabbi urges ‘soul-searching’ after massive stone crashes down
Shmuel Rabinovitch says ‘most rare’ incident at egalitarian prayer area, coming day after Tisha B’Av mourning for destroyed Temples, raises profound ‘doubts and questions’
By Marissa Newman and Amanda Borschel-Dan
A boulder from the Western Wall falls onto a prayer platform on July 23, 2018 (Courtesy/The Western Wall Heritage Foundation via the Masorti Movement of Israel); Inset: Daniella Goldberg, who was praying a few meters away (screenshot: Hadashot)
July 23, 2018, 10:07 am
Ancient boulder dislodges from Western Wall, crashes down near woman at prayer
Dramatic footage shows large stone coming loose from holy site, shattering on egalitarian prayer platform below; lands near Daniella Goldberg, 79, but she is unharmed
By Marissa Newman and Amanda Borschel-Dan
Segregated-gender Orthodox prayer in the Robinson's Arch pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Courtesy)
July 19, 2018, 3:22 pm
Western Wall egalitarian area used daily for gender-segregated Orthodox prayer
Students from two Old City yeshivas bring in temporary ‘mehitza’ dividers for Orthodox crowds of up to 100 at site set aside for pluralistic prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Lawmakers argue during a meeting of the Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee on November 1, 2017. (Screen capture/Knesset Channel)
November 1, 2017, 8:27 pm
MKs, Diaspora leaders quarrel in Knesset meeting on Western Wall deal
Justifying objections to a pluralistic prayer space, Shas MK Malchieli says there are certain places that ‘you don’t enter with dogs’
By ToI Staff
Minister Tzachi Hanegbi addresses the Jewish Agency Board of Governors at the 'Ezrat Yisrael' prayer platform at the Western Wall, October 30, 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 30, 2017, 6:05 pm
Israel insists it won’t fully implement Western Wall egalitarian prayer deal
Addressing Jewish Agency at pluralistic prayer platform, Tzachi Hanegbi vows to improve the site’s appearance but rejects Diaspora Jewry’s key demands
By Raphael Ahren
Conservative Jews pray at the temporary egalitarian Robinson's Arch prayer pavilion at the southern end of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)
August 31, 2017, 6:32 am
Could a 1924 British Mandate law kill the Western Wall pluralistic pavilion?
A long-awaited High Court hearing will assemble petitioners on both sides of a frozen government decision to stake their claims at Judaism’s holiest site
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
David Golinkin
June 30, 2017, 1:19 pm
David Golinkin
Vote with your feet at Robinson’s Arch
Coalition politics will crumple under one million Jews praying annually at the mixed section of the Kotel
Illustrative: A young member of Women of the Wall holds up the miniature Torah scroll during the monthly Rosh Hodesh service on June 25, 2017, in the women's section of the Western Wall plaza. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
June 25, 2017, 5:49 pm
Liberman: Shelving Western Wall plan a ‘severe blow’ to Jewish unity
Former Israel envoy to US Michael Oren says ‘despicable’ decision marks ‘the abandonment of Zionism’; Diaspora Minister Bennett skips vote
By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff
Prayer services at the pluralistic prayer pavilion at the Western Wall, on July 17, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
June 25, 2017, 4:06 pm
Bowing to ultra-Orthodox pressure, cabinet halts pluralistic Western Wall deal
Israel’s Reform movement says freezing the plan to build mixed-gender prayer plaza harms Israel and its connection to the Jewish people; Jewish Agency expresses ‘deep disappointment’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Alexander Fulbright
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