Hazmat suit workers collect Wall prayers

By Jeffrey Heller
Updated April 1 2020 - 5:58am, first published 5:53am
Cleaners have sanitised the stones of the Western Wall as part of measures to battle COVID-19.
Cleaners have sanitised the stones of the Western Wall as part of measures to battle COVID-19.

Twice a year, cleaning teams using long sticks gouge out tens of thousands of written prayers that visitors traditionally cram into the crevices of Judaism's Western Wall in Jerusalem.

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