Bonus Post - Western Wall at night

From the end of WW1 to 1948 the British controlled the Western Wall [Wailing Wall.]  In 1948 the British pulled out and war broke out between the Arabs and the Jews.  The Jordanians took the old city and the Jews were kicked out of the old city including their own Jewish Quarter.  Jews were not allowed into the city and were not allowed to visit the Western Wall.

In 1967 during the six day war, the Israeli army took the old city back and Jews were once again allowed to go to the Western Wall to pray.  The Western wall is holy to the Jews because it is the only remaining part of the temple that stood in Jesus day.  Jews and many non Jews put prayers written on little pieces of paper in the cracks in the wall.

Last night we visited the wall.  It was pretty cool all lit up at night.

Western Wall [wailing wall] at night

Note the prayers stuck in the wall.

There are tunnels along the wall that only men can go into.  

You can see much of the architecture from Jesus

day.  My the stones were big!

Lots of Jews and Orthodox Jews were praying.

Steve, Laurie and I met brother Bruno at the Newark airport.

We talked about all kinds of things.  I really liked him.  We

exchanged contact info.  Randomly we ran into him at

Masada and then again randomly we ran into him last

night in the old city.  It's a small world. 

On the way back I got us lost in the old city.  Not good... I was the goat of the night. But we finally did make it back safely.