Huge Prayer Vigil in Jerusalem
Charles Johnson
Thu Aug 11, 2005 at 7:54 am PDT • Views: 979
A reader forwarded this webcam photo of yesterday’s massive prayer vigil at the Western Wall in Jerusalem:
Thousands attend Western Wall prayer vigil.
Seeking last-minute divine intervention, about 100,000 Israelis flocked to Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Wednesday evening for a massive prayer vigil against next week’s planned Gaza pullout.
The predominantly religious crowd - young and old, men, women, and children - who attended the peaceful three-hour mass prayer, which took place just seven days before the scheduled start of the planned evacuation of the 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and four in northern Samaria, spilled out past the Western Wall plaza into the cobblestone streets and alleyways leading to the nearby Jewish Quarter in what was one of the largest gatherings held at the Western Wall in years.
Frank says: