The biggest stone in the Kotel lies in the Kotel tunnels and is 14 meters in length.

Each stone of the Kotel received a “Teudat Zehut” (ID). Each stone is catalogued in a platform that tracks the stone’s status, its cracks, and the touch points with its surrounding stones.

Jerusalem has 70 names. Each one is more special than its predecessor. Each one shows a new aspect in this magical city. Some of the names are real, and some of them are made up.
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A folk legend links the appearance of the lions at the gate to a terrifying dream that Suleiman the Magnificent (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire) had, which included lions eating him. After the dream reappeared a few times, the Sultan realized that this was a punishment he was due to receive because he did not bother to block and protect Jerusalem according to Halacha, and therefore hurried to build the wall. He established the lions in one of the gates, as a tribute to his dream.

In the Six-Day War, the Paratroopers burst into the old city through the gate. While they entered, the gate doors were shattered, and they were restored two years later in February 1969.

Many famous people have walked on Jerusalem’s streets.
Here is a photo from a historical event.
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From the internal side of the wall next to Yafo Gate there are two Turkish graves. These graves are attributed to Suleiman the Magnificent’s engineers, who, according to Jerusalem legend, built the walls of the city.

Yafo Gate is called that because it is the beginning of journey West, along Yafo road, to the city of Yafo – Ancient Jerusalem’s port.

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Shaar Harachamim is made up of two openings, currently blocked with bricks. The name of the northern entrance is Shaar Hateshuva, and the southern one is called Shaar Harachamim. Shaar Harachamim was the only gate which led directly to Har Habayit.

There is a Jewish tradition that says through this gate the Shechina was exiled, and through that gate it will return.

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The wall was designed to protect the city from enemies, and the walls were burnt almost every time the city was conquered and destroyed.

It is is common knowledge that religious motivation is what pushed Suleiman the Magnificent to build the Ottoman wall in Jerusalem – belief that the holy city deserved a wall to protect it from Bedouin robbers from the Judea desert. It also seems that he desired to emphasize the importance of the holy city, which had been neglected for many years.

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There are those who claim that through this gate the ashes and trash were brought from the Beit Mikdash to Nachal Kidron, and that is how it got its name.

There are those who claim that the gate is called that because during the Byzantine period the Christians threw lots of garbage to prevent the Jews from Davening there.

So maybe you weren’t able to physically get to Jerusalem, but did you think we would let you off the hook?

Go into the Google Maps link in from of you. From the link you can tour Shaar Ha’ashpot (Street view) and answer the questions.

If you succeed in finding all of the Hebrew letters, you will write out one of Jerusalem’s most beautiful names.

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The New Gate is the highest topographically of all of the gates in the Old City.

Between the Independence War and the Six-Day War, the gate was closed due to its location on the Israeli-Jordanian border. After the Six-Day War, the gate was reopened to the public. Immediately after the war, Moshe Dayan suggested building a newer game as a tribute to the big victory, and even gave it a name – “Shaar Hashevut” (Gate of Return), but the plan never came to fruition.

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Shaar Shchem (Damascus Gate) is considered to be the nicest and most magnificent gate out of the Ottoman gates.

The gate is named Shaar Shchem in Hebrew because the way North towards Shchem starts there. In most languages outside of Hebrew it is named “Damascus Gate”, for the same reason, that the way North begins there towards the city of Damascus.

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The Arabic name of the gate, Bab Ah Nabi Da’ud, is because of the close proximity of the gate to David’s Tomb.

The stones adjacent to the gate are pierced with bullets, a remnant of the battles that took place there during the Independence War.

The City of Jerusalem has absorbed many stories throughout history. Almost every corner in the city can tell us a story, and in almost every place there is a picture of the event that took place there.

Here are a number of important events that took place in the city, can you match the year to the event?

At the beginning of the 19^th Century, the gate was blocked with stones, but later in the century it was reopened due to the requests of the residents of the nearby Bab Al Chuta neighborhood.

The name Shaar Haperachim (Flower Gate) is an adapted version of the Arabic name from the Middle Ages of “Bab Al Sahara” (The gate of processes at night)

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