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    The Western Wall Tunnel (Hebrew: מנהרת הכותל, translit.: Minharat Hakotel) is a tunnel exposing the Western Wall slightly north from where the traditional...
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  • The Western Wall Tunnel riots erupted on 24 September 1996, lasting primarily for four days, with smaller isolated outbreaks of violence occurring after...
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    file? See media help. The Western Wall (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit. 'the western wall', often shortened to the...
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    Western Wall in Jerusalem. This largest stone in the Western Wall is visible within the Western Wall Tunnel. It is one of the largest building blocks in the...
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    there is a location in the Western Wall Tunnel which directly faces the Holy of Holies. Unlike the more famous Western Wall, the Kotel Katan does not have...
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    a tunnel passing along the western wall of the Temple Mount, northwards from the prayer plaza of the Western Wall, that became known as the Western Wall...
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  • Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, a 1999 album by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris Western Wall Tunnel, a tunnel along the base of the Western Wall...
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  • the area. The tunnel was quickly sealed with concrete by Israeli police. The sealed entrance can be seen from the Western Wall Tunnel, which opened to...
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    Temple platform in Jerusalem. Located about 150 feet (46 m) into the Western Wall Tunnel, the gate was first described by and later named after nineteenth...
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    Warren's Gate; western wall, now only visible from the Western Wall Tunnel Bab an-Nabi (Gate of the Prophet) or Barclay's Gate; western wall, visible from...
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    weighing between two and five tons. (The largest found, in the Western Wall Tunnel, measures some 12.8 meters in length, 3.4 meters high and 4.3 meters...
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    part of Herod's work; however, recent archaeological finds in the Western Wall tunnels suggest that it was built in the first century during the reign of...
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    walls and diverting the waters of the Gihon Spring through a tunnel known today as Hezekiah's Tunnel, which channeled the water inside the city walls...
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    its Western Wall—the Jewish Kotel—or, in Muslim terminology, the al-Aqsa compound (alternatively: al-Haram al-Sharif) including the al-Buraq Wall... "Al-Aqsa"...
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    (ca. 1170) that the site was in front of the Dome, on the site of the Western Wall. The Travels of Petachia of Ratisbon, c.1180 and Travels of a Student...
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    places during the period of British rule of Palestine were focused on the Western Wall, not on the Temple Mount, which was, in any case, off-limits according...
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    intensive excavations outside the walls next to the mosque on the southern and western sides. Palestinians believed that tunnels were being dug under the Aqsa...
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    Paratroopers at the Western Wall is an iconic photograph taken on 7 June 1967, by David Rubinger. Shot from a low angle, the photograph depicts three Israeli...
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    be extinguished; The dwelling, including the curtains for the roof, the walls made of boards resting on silver feet and held together by wooden bolts...
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    notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks of the Western Wall, a Jewish...
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    therefore proposed that this step was actually a section of a wall—part of the western wall of the pre-Herodian, perhaps First Temple-period, Temple Mount...
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    exposed and contiguous section of the ancient wall of the Temple Mount, known locally as the Little Western Wall. The Cotton Merchants' Gate (Arabic: باب القطانين...
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    Gate); western wall (northern third) Bab al-Hadid (Iron Gate); western wall (central part) Bab al-Qattanin (Gate of the Cotton Merchants); western wall (central...
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    Tunnel 57 was a tunnel under the Berlin Wall that on 3 and 4 October 1964 was the location of a mass escape by 57 East Berlin citizens to West Berlin....
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    recognizable landmark" along with two nearby Old City structures: the Western Wall and the "Resurrection Rotunda" in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Its...
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    notes Western Stone Wilson's Arch Western Stone Western Wall Tunnel Prayer Kotel compromise Western Wall Commission Advocacy groups HaLiba The Temple Institute...
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    Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between Bath and Chippenham. The 1.83-mile (2.95 km) tunnel was the world's longest...
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    had two minor doorways, one on its right and one on its left. On the western wall, which was relatively unimportant, there were two gates that did not...
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    by the vast majority of Orthodox and even Haredi Jews nowadays. The Western Wall (kotel hama'aravi), in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, is one...
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    government-mandated organization which preserves and develops the Western Wall site and Western Wall Tunnel, as well as promotes the value of the site through education...
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