A record number of people, a vast majority of them Jews, visited the Kosel over Pesach. According to the Kosel Heritage Fund and the Israel Police, more than 600,000 people from all Jewish streams visited the Kosel Hamaarovi.
The Kosel authorities say that the stream of visitors to the Kosel this year was much larger than in previous years, and that people kept on coming 24 hours a day, many walking from Shaar Yaffo and the markets, Shaar Shechem Gate and the Jewish Quarter, and many others by bus or taxi. Private vehicles were not allowed into the Old City for the entire chag.
Kotel Rov Rav Shmuel Rabinovich commended the police for securing the Kosel area and the approaches to it. “These statistics point to the fact that that the Kotel is a spiritual home for all of the world’s Jews, without any barrier or difference in status, and I hope that this trend will continue and that there will not be a single Jewish boy or girl who does not visit the Kotel,” he said.
{Yair Alpert-Matzav.com Israel/Arutz Shevah}
How do they know that? It’s not like the people handed in tickets that anyone counted!
wow i think its a siman that moshiach will come
thats really cool hopefully next year all the jews will be there
One fairly easy way would be at the metal detectors… every person has to pass through one of them!