Few beliefs have resonated more widely, or among a more diverse set of Israelis and Jews, than the perception of the Western Wall as Judaism s holiest site, the place where they feel the greatest sense of sacredness, "the holy of holies of Jewish
Yossi Ron, the last remnant of his family, embodies the Jewish story of exile, destruction and rebirth.
Ron is one of the 47 orphans from Kfar Etzion, a town in the hills of Judea that was destroyed by the Arabs in Israel’s War of Independence, its defenders massacred by the marauding Arabs.