(Photo: The Western Wall Heritage Foundation)
By Abigail Klein Leichman - April 2, 2020
Every six months, before Rosh Hashana and Passover, workers collect thousands of handwritten notes from the crevices of the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem’s Old City. Then they bury the notes along with other sacred papers on the Mount of Olives.
On March 31, this familiar routine was carried out a bit differently because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation reports that the workers used gloves and disposable wooden tools to protect them from infection as they pried some 18,000 prayer notes from the wall.
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