JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Cabinet approved a plan on Sunday to build an elevator from Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall that would allow more accessibility for handicapped people to the ...

Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel. AP– Installing an elevator doesn’t normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city’s history. But in ...

Cabinet ministers on Sunday approved a plan to build an elevator and an underground passageway from the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City to the Western Wall that would allow more accessibility ...

The government approved this morning the “Western Wall Elevator” project. The decision comes after 13 years of declarations which did not lead to an actual decision on the matter. The approved project ...

The excavation of the tunnel for the Western Wall elevator has begun, a major step towards making the holiest site in Judaism accessible to people with disabilities and mobility challenges. “This is a ...