The rabbi of Jerusalem’s Western Wall said most Israeli youth never visit Judaism’s holiest prayer site. “Eighty percent of Israeli soldiers have never visited the Western Wall,” Shmuel Rabinowitz told Yediot Achronot in an interview published Monday, the eve of Tisha B’Av.
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