Kotel crowds down due to terror attacks

I think that the picture above probably best illustrates how many fewer people were at the Kotel this year for Tisha b'Av - both last night and today - than is normally the case. People were afraid to go due to the two terror attacks in Jerusalem on Monday.

Let's go to the videotape.



I go to the Kotel at mid-day on Tisha b'Av for the afternoon prayers. I find it too social for Tisha b'Av