Kotel

Beyond the Headlines: Moments at Ben-Gurion Airport, the Kotel - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
An IDF orphan, wearing a beret from the Nachal Brigade, celebrating his bar mitzvah at the Kotel in Jerusalem, October 20, 2025.

Forty-eight IDF orphans mark bnei mitzvah at Western Wall

 Central Selichot services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. August 24, 2023

The future of our people: Strength, love, safety in our youth - opinion

The sign at the entrance to the Old City

Beyond the headlines: Where will you be for the holiday prayer?


Major UK Jewish group to require approval for trips over Israel's Green Line

UJIA's new policy on travel beyond the Green Line - including to the Kotel - raises fresh challenges and triggers diverse responses within the UK's Jewish community.

View of the Dome of the Rock, the western wall and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on November 16, 2022.

Jerusalem Day: One Kotel for all - opinion

worry that the Western Wall is being unintentionally appropriated by religious Jews.

 Jerusalem was the only territory in ancient Israel which wasn’t allocated to a particular tribe (Illustrative).

Chabad holds Kotel bar mitzvah ceremony for 121 orphans

This year's celebration was set against a backdrop of ongoing protests and turmoil in Jerusalem surrounding the proposed judicial reform.

 Colel Chabad Bar Mitzvah

This week in Jerusalem: Nof Zahav

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 LONELY NO more: Working in a downtown cafe.

Western Wall compromise: Israel's High Court to hold hearing

This is the first hearing taking place on the issue in the past two years and the first during this government. 

Members of the Women of the Wall, Conservative and Reform Movement  hold Rosh Hodesh prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, March 4, 2022.

Letters to the Editor February 27, 2023: Work over family

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Reform rabbis hold prayers at Kotel, Noam Party activists protest in egal section

Chaos broke out across the Kotel as Women of the Wall held prayer services in the main plaza and Noam Party activists took over the egalitarian section.

 MK Gilad Kariv holds a Torah Scroll during Rosh Hodesh prayer of women of the wall, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, February 22, 2023.

Underwear at the Western Wall: Two wrongs don't make a right - opinion

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, looked at the role of the Jewish people and said that we are taught to fight darkness with light. This is how we will solve our issues.

 A prayer calling for unity and dialogue takes place near the Western Wall, on Monday.

Letters to the Editor February 13, 2023: Is it normal?

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

What’s behind the exaggerated proposed Kotel legislation?

A new Western Wall bill proposed by Shas could see visitors who dress “not modestly” face a six-month prison sentence.

The Western Wall.