“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
Children of victims of terror celebrate a moving Bar and Bat Mitzvah
As is tradition: Children of victims of terror celebrate a moving Bar and Bat Mitzvah at the Western Wall and at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem
25 Tevet 5786
January 14, 2026
