The Western Wall

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Ministry of Defence, 1983 - Western Wall (Jerusalem) - 245 pages

Contents

David 13 So because of you Zion will be ploughed as a field 19 The glory of this
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The Western Wall in the Second Temple Period 41 The Gates in the Western Wall
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The Riddled Stone 66 Its Stones are Great and Thick 68 The Most Famous
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Everlasting Sanctity 81 Customs
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Chapter V
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A Holy Ruin 102 On What Merit did the Wall Survive? 104 The Wall Exists
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Montefiores and Rothschilds Attempts to Buy the Wall 125 The Yom Kippur Incident
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The First Day of the War 143 Forward To the Wall 146 The Commanders Story
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This Year in Rebuilt Jerusalem 150 The President Must Come to the Wall 152
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The First Design 161 Changes in the Wake of the SixDay War 163 Planning Involves
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Christian Drawings 190 A Fixed Depiction 191 The Mizrah and the Wall 195 Five
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A Stone Weighing Four Hundred Tons 215 Stones for the Presidential Palace and
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A Select Bibliography
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