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Western Wall

American  

noun

  1. a wall in Jerusalem where Jews, on certain occasions, assemble for prayer and lamentation: traditionally believed to be the remains of the western wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70.


Western Wall British  

noun

  1. Also called: Wailing WallJudaism a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage

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AFP journalists at the scene saw the damage just a few hundred metres from Jerusalem's revered holy sites of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

On Sunday, a large Israeli flag was unfurled at the Western Wall plaza.

From BBC • May 26, 2025

“I had grown up going to synagogues,” Cooper explains, “And in Hebrew school, there was always a picture of the Western Wall on one of the walls.”

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024

Particularly problematic are the numbers that illustrate Ethan’s subjects, including a flamboyant Greenwich Village Scrabble shark, a Black “off-the-books political operative” and a group of pilgrims to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

We’ll have to count on the Western Wall.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank