“If a nation and a country have a soul – then Jerusalem is their soul,” said Ben Gurion. He imagined the many pilgrims making their way up to Jerusalem and to the Kotel and understood the longing, the joy, and the desire to touch the stones of the Kotel and pray near them.
Photo: Ben Gurion with Teddy Kollek (former mayor of Jerusalem) at the Western Wall, courtesy of Rabbi Shechter’s family
Foreign Minister of North Macedonia: “The significance of Jerusalem for world civilization is of immense importance”
During his first official visit to Israel since taking office, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of North Macedonia, Mr. Timčo Mucunski, arrived
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