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Western Wall

President Donald Trump places a note in the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 22.

VIDEO: Trump becomes the first sitting US president to visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Global Politics

Donald Trump stirred controversy even before his trip for planning to visit the Jewish holy site in the disputed city of Jerusalem.

A Palestinian man prays near Israeli police during Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi al-Joz on October 31, 2014. Israeli police declared an age limit on Friday for Palestinians wanting to enter the Old City, only allowing males ab

Reopening holy sites for Muslims fails to ease tensions in Jerusalem

Conflict
Members of the Women of the Wall group take part in their monthly prayer session at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.

‘Separate but equal’ will work for Jewish women who want to pray at the Western Wall

Lifestyle & Belief
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