MAR 28, 2024 JLM 79°F 01:28 PM 07:28 AM EST
Western Wall and the Jews: A Thousand Years and More of Prayers at the Holy Site - Part I

- After the destruction of the Temple, Jews prayed on the Temple Mount, on the Mount of Olives, at the Eastern and Southern Walls, and finally - when Jerusalem was reopened - returned to the Western Wall, which is closest to the "Holy of Holies".

- The current place of worship at the Western Wall was established after the earthquake of 1546, which collapsed a row of buildings leaning against the Western Wall and cleared a short prayer alley for the Jews, with the approval of the Ottoman authorities.

- The Central Synagogue of the Jews of Jerusalem 'The Cave', which was located at the Western Wall for many years, until the city fell to the Crusaders in 1099
The Jewish scholar Yitzhak Yechezkel Yehuda collected dozens of testimonies of Jewish prayers at many points in time, starting in 950. They were submitted to the British Western Wall Committee, establishing the Jewish connection to the place.

- A valuable new study prepared by Dr. Aryeh Kimmelman reveals that in parallel with the prayers at the Western Wall Alley, which later became the Western Wall plaza, Jews prayed at various points along its entire length, for example near the cotton, Majles and Iron gates.

- The Muslims have attached to the denial of the Jews' connection to the Temple Mount, also the denial of the Western Wall, and claim that the Jews are not connected to it and that it is 'part of al-Aqsa'

- After 1967, the Muslims expanded the al-Aqsa fence from the southern mosque only, and applied it to the entire compound and its walls.

- Residents of the Mughrabi neighborhood - which the Palestinian Authority is threatening to re-establish on the site of the Western Wall plaza - harassed Jewish visitors to the Western Wall for years, charging them sponsorship fees and allowing garbage and animal dung to be dumped there.

- The British Western Wall Commission determined that the owners of the Western Wall were Muslims while the Jews could use it. Israel amended the biased report, when it revoked the mandatory status quo arrangements at the Western Wall, expropriated part of it and registered it in the name of the State of Israel.

- During its 19 years of rule in East Jerusalem (1948-67), Jordan violated a commitment to allow Jews to pray at the Western Wall

- Israel was wrong when it previously entrusted the restoration of the Southern Wall and the Eastern Wall to Jordan and even surrendered a Jordanian lottery on the issues of the Mughrabi Gate and the Little Wall. As a result, the Jordanians see themselves as 'homeowners' on the walls of the mountain and allow themselves to be reprimanded in Israel for vital work there.

 

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