“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
A mass recitation of the Shema Yisrael prayer initiated by the Hostages Forum Taanit Esther 5784/2024
A mass recitation of the Shema Yisrael, from the Western Wall, to dozens of locations in Israel and around the world, for the return of the hostages and the welfare of the IDF soldiers.