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Jerusalem, Jan 16 (EFE) .- The Government of Israel today approved an investment plan of about 110 million shekels (almost 31 million euros) to improve infrastructure and increase visits to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the main place of Jewish worship.
The Executive gave the green light to a five-year project that plans to “improve infrastructure” and transport services to reach this sacred space, located between the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, in its occupied eastern part.
As reported in a statement by the press office of the Israeli Government, it also intends to optimize attention to visitors, both tourists and schoolchildren, Jewish immigrants or soldiers.
In turn, he wants to “develop new educational plans” around space and seek “new ways to make it accessible” through “new technological platforms.”
The Wailing Wall “is one of the most sacred and important sites of the Jewish people”, and “millions of visitors from all over the world visit it continuously”, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Benet said today, emphasizing the will of the Government to “continue improving the most urgent infrastructures” of the place.
This space is at the foot of the Esplanade of the Mosques, the third holiest place for Islam and the first for Judaism.
The Jews place the temples of Solomon and Herod and the stone of Isaac’s sacrifice there, and consider that it is also the point where the world was created.
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