A large rock fell from the Western Wall. It might mean more than we thought. The Western Wall, bottom, and Dome of the Rock, top, in Jerusalem’s Old City on March, 13, 2019.

The Western Wall is one of the most sacred and contested religious sites in the world. Originally a retaining wall for the Second Temple, it has become a focal point of Jewish prayer and identity. But ...

Pope Benedict XVI took his message of peace to the most contentious site in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today, urging both sides to engage in “a sincere dialogue aimed at building a world ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the Wailing Wall, also known as the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in the world. This captivating drone footage reveals the ancient stone ...

JERUSALEM -- It began as a routine remodeling project: Muslim authorities replacing an old carpet worn thin by masses of worshippers at the Dome of the Rock, the iconic, gold-topped shrine that ...

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Instead, they gather at the Western Wall, ... • The compound, which includes Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is considered the third-holiest site in Islam.

A 2,000-year-old piece of stone crashed down from the Western Wall on Monday, but the sky is not falling, said Hebrew University experts. In the Davidson’s Archaeological Park on Monday morning ...

The Western Wall is a remnant of the retaining wall of a plateau revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, ... the compound now includes Al Aksa Mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock.

It was, after all, built by the Romans and later intended to be dwarfed by the Dome of the Rock. Until 1967, it was part of a Jerusalem slum. Today it is both triumphalist and tempered by its ...

On a tour of the Temple Mount before he became a Knesset member, activist Yehuda Glick shows religious Jews a diagram of the Jewish temple, which once stood where the Dome of the Rock stands today ...

JERUSALEM — Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday (May 12) prayed at the Western Wall and visited the nearby Dome of the Rock, two disputed pieces of holy ground that are sacred to both Muslims and Jews ...