Jude an der westlichen Mauer in Jerusalem, Israel - Stock-Fotografie

Jerusalem, Israel - August 1, 2005: Jewish man at the Western Wall. The Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem is the section of the Western supporting wall of the Temple Mount which has remained intact since the destruction of the Second Jerusalem Temple. It became the most sacred spot in Jewish religious and national consciousness and tradition by virtue of its proximity to the Western Wall of the Holy of Holies in the Temple, from which, according to numerous sources, the Divine Presence never departed