Some 15 rioters were arrested. “Their goal was to hurt the Jews who came to pray at the Western Wall on Rosh Hashanah,” Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz said in a statement issued Saturday night.

Jews pray at the Western Wall, beside the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, or the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

The Western Wall is what remains on the surface of a supporting wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, built by the Roman client king Herod the Great in the first century B.C.

3. Western Wall Tunnels Tour While the Western Wall is located in the Jewish Quarter, the Underground Tunnel tour takes you underneath the Muslim Quarter on the original street level of Jerusalem.

A stone seal from the Jewish First Temple period, about 2,700 years ago, was discovered near the Southern Wall of Temple Mount, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported in a press release ...

I am talking about the steps that lead from the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem, down to the Western Wall plaza. This week marks the 47th anniversary of the first time I descended those steps and then ...

The Western Wall is considered the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray, and is believed to be the last remnant of the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. The site lies in the ...

Jordan, which oversees the Temple Mount via the Waqf Islamic trust, was notified of the move only hours before the work began. Though less prominent than the main Western Wall Plaza, the Little ...

Archeologists working near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem unearthed an ornate first-century villa with its own attached ritual bath (mikveh) dating back to the Second Temple era, as well as artifacts ...