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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

Western Wall Heritage Foundation

Former hostage Eliya Cohen recites the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall on April 15, 2025. (Western Wall Foundation)
April 15, 2025, 8:30 pm
Tens of thousands flock to Western Wall as ex-hostage Eliya Cohen says priestly blessing
During the ceremony, the young man holds up posters for two captives still in the Strip, Segev Kalfon and Alon Ohel, as the massive crowd recites the prayer for the hostages
By Rossella Tercatin
Staff from the Western Wall Heritage Foundation remove notes and messages from the Western Wall ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover on April 2, 2025. (Western Wall Heritage Foundation)
April 2, 2025, 4:55 pm
Western Wall cleared of thousands of visitors’ pleas ahead of Passover
According to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, notes include messages sent through its website by people from enemy countries, such as Iran and Yemen
By Rossella Tercatin
Jewish worshipers attend the priestly blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, during the holiday of Passover, April 25, 2024 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 25, 2024, 4:54 pm
Thousands at Western Wall for priestly blessing, with prayers for hostages’ return
Some 30,000 worshipers attend semi-annual ceremony as organizers add special text for the release of those in Hamas captivity
By Charlie Summers
Children of fallen IDF soldiers celebrate their bar mitzvah at the Western Wall in a collective celebration on April 4, 2024. (Kobi Koenkas/IDF Widows & Orphans Organization).
April 5, 2024, 3:16 am
Through pain of loss, IDF orphans celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs at Western Wall
President Isaac Herzog meets with children of fallen IDF soldiers and security forces at Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance, where he commends their heroism
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movements hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 20, 2023, 6:48 pm
Court bans Torah bag searches at Western Wall, in limited win for Women of the Wall
Ruling nonetheless reaffirms that attendants at holy site may enforce rules preventing women from using scripture in ‘unauthorized ways’ once they enter complex
By Canaan Lidor
Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, right, and Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, July 19, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 19, 2023, 4:33 pm
Anger as abbot told to hide his cross on visit to Western Wall with German minister
Nikodemus Schnabel protests after being told his attire is ‘inappropriate’; state-run Heritage Foundation apologizes for ‘distress caused’ but defends request
By ToI Staff
Ofri Meoded Danon and his mother celebrate his bar mitzvah at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel in May 2023. (Courtesy of Meoded Danon)
June 23, 2023, 9:56 am
Red tape keeps non-Orthodox worshipers a stone’s throw from the Western Wall
5 years after stone collapse at holy site, authorities have yet to reopen access to Wall at egalitarian section; religious activists argue delay is deliberate
By Canaan Lidor
A policeman detains a youth with a lamb he is suspected of intending to sacrifice on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, April 5, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 5, 2023, 1:05 pm
Police detain several people seeking to carry out animal sacrifice at Temple Mount
Cops stop a number of individuals with goats or lambs as they try to bring them to sensitive holy site to perform ancient ritual; act seen as having explosive potential
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Raphael Morris, leader of the Returning to the Mount group. (Channel 13 News)
April 4, 2023, 2:54 pm
Police, top rabbi act to prevent Passover sacrifice on flashpoint Temple Mount
Activist Rafael Morris, head of group calling for slaughtering lambs for festival, is arrested for alleged plan; Western Wall rabbi introduces ban on bringing animals to holy site
By ToI Staff
Jews gather at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 12, 2022, for the annual priestly blessing, during the holiday of Sukkot. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
March 14, 2023, 1:12 pm
Young woman told to remove anti-overhaul protest sweatshirt to visit Western Wall
Woman’s mother wonders whether she’d have been similarly ordered if shirt bore rightist slogan ‘Temple Mount in our hands,’ says ‘Western Wall is most political place in country’
By ToI Staff
View of the Western Wall plaza and the Dome of the Rock in the background, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 23, 2021. (Lee Aloni/Flash90)
January 5, 2023, 10:36 pm
2 men attack Western Wall worker who stopped them bringing women to male section
Employee taken to hospital after being hit in the face; police bring suspects in for questioning
By Judah Ari Gross
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prays as he visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, January 1, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)
January 2, 2023, 8:59 am
Netanyahu and wife Sara visit Western Wall to mark election win
Prime minister places note between ancient stones, declares duty to preserve Jewish heritage and legacy
By ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides attends a Hanukkah candle lighting at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem on December 20, 2022.(Reform Movement in Israel)
December 20, 2022, 11:25 pm
US envoy Nides attends Reform candle lighting at Western Wall’s egalitarian plaza
Gantz heckled at ceremony in men’s section of plaza, drawing condemnation from Haredi party leader; Women of the Wall hold their own lighting, lamenting exclusion from main event
By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid
Women read from a Torah at the Western Wall on July 20, 2022. (Noga Tarnopolsky via JTA)
July 29, 2022, 8:18 pm
Braving protesters, US girl holds bat mitzvah with Women of the Wall activists
Lucia da Silva celebrates milestone despite catcalls and commotion during monthly Women of the Wall reading for Rosh Hodesh; no arrests reported
By Noga Tarnopolsky
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks from a military base in the West Bank, on May 11, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 1, 2022, 9:36 pm
Kohavi denounces barring of female officer from leading Western Wall ceremony
Military chief calls incident a ‘violation of our values,’ says commanders can’t let decisions be influenced by ‘parties outside the chain of command’
By ToI Staff
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