Kotel

Beyond the Headlines: Moments at Ben-Gurion Airport, the Kotel - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
An IDF orphan, wearing a beret from the Nachal Brigade, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025.

Forty-eight IDF orphans mark bnei mitzvah at Western Wall

 Central Selichot services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. August 24, 2023

The future of our people: Strength, love, safety in our youth - opinion

The sign at the entrance to the Old City

Beyond the headlines: Where will you be for the holiday prayer?


Lapid sets January deadline for egalitarian prayer at Kotel

Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid listed several reasons why implementing the plan was important to him, including improving relations with Diaspora Jews.

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman at the cabinet meeting, November 7, 2021.

Netanyahu shares call to block pluralistic prayer service at Kotel

Deri, a long opponent of the group, wrote on Twitter that he and his fellow haredi MKs would be at the site on Friday to block the service from going ahead.

MEMBERS OF the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall last year.

The Western Wall agreement must be implemented - opinion

Recent events and those that are expected prove once again that it is necessary to implement the Kotel agreement – the sooner the better.

MEMBERS OF the Women of the Wall movement hold Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall in front of ultra-Orthodox protesters.

Holocaust survivors' notes placed in Western Wall

The prayers and requests of dozens of Holocaust survivors were placed in the cracks between the wall's stones in a special ceremony.

 Dozens of notes written by Holocaust survivors living in the US were places in the Kotel last week as part of a special event held by the World Zionist Organization and Holocaust Heroes Worldwide.

Repair work conducted on egalitarian prayer section of Western Wall

The repairs were authorized by officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, including a safety consultant, in order to ensure that the site meets safety regulations.

The egalitarian section of the Western Wall last week with new wooden floorboards.

Grapevine: 'A city knit together'?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Footage shows people urinating at Western Wall egalitarian section

Masorti movement says two recent incidents part of a phenomenon due to lack of public toilets at the site.

Jewish worshipers celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in 2019.

Non-Orthodox Judaism brings a needed service to Am Yisrael - opinion

We must ask ourselves what we would gain by rejecting converts from non-Orthodox streams of Judaism.

On June 11, at the Western Wall, 39 Women of the Wall prayer books were grabbed, torn up, and destroyed.

Women of the Wall pray at Kotel, harassed by Orthodox

Group jeered from inside Western Wall women’s section, while haredi and religious-Zionist boys hurl abuse at men praying in solidarity with Women of the Wall.

 Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Western Wall to hold 17 selichot events, follow COVID-19 rules

Hosting 17 events, each with a chazzan, speakers and live broadcast, ensures the crowds will be spread out. The live broadcasts ensures those who can't come will be able to participate.

Coronavirus regulations are kept at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, 2021