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Now you see it, now you don’t

By Uriel Heilman August 4, 2008 7:02 pm

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Warning: These images are disturbing (at least, I found them to be disturbing). When Barack Obama visited the Western Wall, he stuck a prayer note in between the Kotel’s ancient stones:

Then, an Israeli yeshiva student promptly removed it:

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