Minor repairs to the Wailing Wall, involving the replacement of several crumbling stones in the upper rows which endangered worshippers, will be made shortly, it was announced here today. An agreement to this effect has been reached by the Chief Rabbinate and the Antiquities Department of the Palestine Government.
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