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Western Wall הכותל המערבי

Buildings and Sites

Retaining wall of the Temple Mount platform from the time of Herod. It is the holiest place where Jews may pray and is also called the Kotel.

Illustration from the book. Photographs, where shown, are from Wikimedia Commons, with author and license beside each. Click a photograph to enlarge it.

Sources

  • The book Israel NOWlej by Richard J. Koret, glossary, page 208.