Over 500,000 persons visited the Kosel during Chanukah week.
As is the case annually, state and public officials lit the Kosel menorah each night of Chanukah, as one can see in this Chanukah week in review video from the Kosel.
Some of the persons seen at the nightly lighting included:
Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau
Kosel Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon
PM Netanyahu
Kosel Heritage Foundation officials
Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz
Jerusalem District police chief and other senior commanders
Jerusalem Chief Sephardi Rabbi HaGaon Rav Moshe Shlomo Amar
Be’er Sheva Chief Rabbi HaGaon Rav Yehuda Deri
Migdal HaEmek Chief Rabbi HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman
Paratroops 55th Brigade Commander Colonel Yaniv Barrot
Blue & White party Chairman MK Benny Gantz
(YWN Israel Desk Jerusalem)