Rosh Hashanah in Palestine passed quietly and without incident. The synagogues throughout the country, but more especially in Jerusalem, were thronged more than in other years, owing probably to the large influx of workers from the country who made pilgrimages to the Wailing Wall and visited the large synagogues in the Old City.
Services at the Wailing Wall were largely uninterrupted despite the prohibition of the blowing of the shofar necessitating the worshippers repairing to the synagogues for the afternoon prayers. For the evening services however, when no shofar blowing is required, services were conducted at the Wall by Rabbi Sonnenfeld, while a small Moslem congregation in the zahweih near the Wall chanted vociferously.
During the evening services two stones were hurled at the worshippers by unknown persons, but fortunately no one was struck by the missiles. The police, who were patrolling all the approaches to the Wall, failed to find the culprits. At the completion of the evening services the streets began to fill with crowds of Jewish promenaders, and the moving picture houses, closed since Monday at sundown, reopened.
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