In his small, tented chapel is a prayer wall, onto which soldiers can pin their individual thoughts and prayers.

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Women of the Wall members have gone to the wall wearing prayer shawls for 24 years.

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People were grooving on balconies, enjoying live music on the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall and slipping prayer notes into the Western Wall.

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When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland.

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Women of the Wall say their central mission is to be able to "wear prayer shawls, pray, and read from the Torah collectively and out loud at the Western Wall".

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Pope Benedict insisted on beginning his emotional visit by walking alone under the infamous sign and saying a prayer in front of the reconstruction of the execution wall where Nazis lined up and shot thousands of prisoners.

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They reorganised the pews around a central prayer platform, and made a shrine on the eastern wall.

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In a boost for the plan, the Western Wall's Orthodox Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz endorsed the new prayer section.

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Fawaz Abu-Khadijeh, a cabdriver who is a regular at the mosque, recalls Sheik Safwat asking him for curtains to further seal off the women's prayer area, then separated from the main hall by an eight-foot wall.

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Women of the Wall says it wants equal access for all Jewish practices and denominations at the holiest site for prayer in Judaism.

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