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Pinhas Sapir told the Agency
Executive.
Sapir said some 1,000 hous-
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to immigrants by the end of
next year. Beersheba's may-
or told Sapir in a tour he
conducted in the area that
there was infrastructure for
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Theodore Mandell and Mrs. Jack Greenberg are co-chair-
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Wailing Wall: History—Import
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The Wailing Wall is that
section of the Western Wall
"for your next affair"
of the Temple, Mount which
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sources, the Divine presence
never departed.
It became a center for
mourning over the destruc-
tion of the Temple, and Is-
rael's exile, on the one hand,
and of religious—and in the
20th Century also national—
communion with the memory
of Israel's former glory and
the hope for its restoration,
on the other hand. The Ency-
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European languages as the
Wailing Wall.
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were directed toward the
site of the destroyed Temple,
but the Western Wall be-
came a permanent feature
in Jewish tradition only about
1520. From that time all
literary sources describe sit
as a place of assembly and
prayer for Jews.
With the expansion of the
Jewish population in Pales-
tine from the beginning of
the 19th Century and with
the increase of visitors, the
popularity of the Western
Wall grew. Its image began
SOUTHFIELD (in Farrells Plaza)
to appear in Jewish folklor-
istic lart and later also in
modern art drawings. The
19th Century also saw the
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beginning of the archeologi-
cal study of the Western
Wall north and south of the
open prayer spot, the Ency-
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After the Balfour Declara-
tion and the British Mandate
had given the Jews a recog-
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estine, they began to add
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and Arabs occurred about
the Western Wall.
Affer the capitulation of
Jerusalem's Jewish quarter
in the Old City in May 1948,
Jews were prevented for 19
years from even looking at
the wall from afar. The para-
graph in the ceasefire agree-
ment granting freedom of
access to the holy places was
not kept by the Jordanians.
The wall was liberated on
the third day of the Six-Day
War (June 7,- 1967) by .Is-
rael's parachutists.
On the first day of Sha-
vuot, 250,000 Jews swarmed
t h e r e. Subsequently, the
buildings placed against the
wall in its continuation south-
ward were removed. The
entire cleared area in front
of the Western wall was
leveled and converted into
a large paved open space.
The lower square near the
wall is the prayer area.
Most of the Western Wall
(which is about 1,580 feet
long) was' hidden by the
buildings adjoining it. Until
June 1967, the accessible
portion wa's no more than 91
feet. The wall above ground
consisted of 24 rows of
stones reaching a height of
58 feet.
In- 1967, excavations north
and south of the wall con-
tinued. The rows of the wall
were laid in a terraced man-
ner; the wall thus slants
slightly eastward. This fac-
tor, plus the weight of the
stones, and the accuracy of
the cutting account for the
unusual stablity of the wall.
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