Editing Western Wall (section)

===="Al Buraq (Wailing Wall) Rd" sign====
During the Jordanian rule of the Old City, a ceramic street sign in Arabic and English was affixed to the stones of the ancient wall. Attached {{convert|2.1|m|ft}} up, it was made up of eight separate ceramic tiles and said ''Al Buraq Road'' in Arabic at the top with the English "Al-Buraq (Wailing Wall) Rd" below. When Israeli soldiers arrived at the wall in June 1967, one attempted to scrawl Hebrew lettering on it.<ref name=Narkiss70>{{cite book |author=Bezalel Narkiss|title=Picture History of Jewish Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oWKFAAAAIAAJ|access-date=May 19, 2011|year=1970|publisher=H. N. Abrams|page=241|isbn=9780810904002|quote=An Israeli soldier writes the Hebrew name on a street sign, which had previously had only Arabic and English lettering identifying the location as Wailing Wall Road.}}</ref> ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' reported that on June 8, Ben-Gurion went to the wall and "looked with distaste" at the road sign; "this is not right, it should come down" and he proceeded to dismantle it.<ref name=Kuwayt>{{cite book |author1=Jāmiʻat al-Kuwayt|author2=Institute for Palestine Studies (Washington, D.C.)|author3=Muʾassasat al-Dirāsāt al-Filasṭīnīyah|title=Journal of Palestine studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmoMAQAAMAAJ|access-date=May 19, 2011|year=1972|publisher=University of California Press for Kuwait University and the Institute for Palestine Studies|page=187}}</ref> This act signaled the climax of the capture of the Old City and the ability of Jews to once again access their holiest sites.<ref name=בר2007>{{cite book |author=דורון בר|title=לקדש ארץ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3JtAAAAMAAJ|access-date=May 19, 2011|year=2007|publisher=יד יצחק בן צבי|page=207|isbn=9789652172686|quote=The symbolic removal of a sign placed by the Jordanians in English and Arabic, which referred to the Western Wall plaza as al-Buraq, was part of the process of 'Judaization' and return of the site to the status of the most important holy place of the Jewish people, and now the most holy place inside Israel.}}</ref> Emotional recollections of this event are related by [[David Ben-Gurion]] and [[Shimon Peres]].<ref name=PL95>{{cite book |author1=Shimon Peres |author2=David Landau |title=Battling for peace: a memoir |url=https://archive.org/details/battlingforpeace00pere |url-access=registration |access-date=May 18, 2011 |year=1995 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-679-43617-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/battlingforpeace00pere/page/94 94]}}</ref>