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NEWS
Masterplan Approved for Kosel Area
by Yechiel Sever
After many years of planning and preparation, the local Building and Planning Committee approved a master plan for the Kosel Plaza. Since the area was first cleared in the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967, no comprehensive plan of the area was undertaken. The new plan envisions 15 million visitors a year in the near future, and presents proposals to deal with this.
Though the plan provides solutions and enhancements in many areas, there are still some open issues. For example, recently the Court invalidated the plans for the new Mugrabi Bridge that would have provided a much larger covered prayer facility for women. Rav Rabinowitz, the rav of the Kosel, worked hard on the plan, but he says that answers were not yet found to all the issues raised in Court.
Deputy Mayor Yitzchok Pindrus, head of the UTJ party in the Jerusalem municipality, praised the plan and noted that it provides for the men to have a new way of access to the Kosel that will not require them to pass the women's section.
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