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The essence of Shavuot in Jerusalem, 1964

Who knew if the Wall could ever be visited by Jewish people?

Rita Geffen sits on the steps leading up to Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in 1971
Rita Geffen sits on the steps leading up to Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock, located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in 1971
(photo credit: AVIE GEFFEN)
ByDAVID GEFFEN
MAY 25, 2017 12:45
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