Overview

• Organizers reported over 50,000 attendees at the Kosel on Sunday night, capping an Elul that drew more than one million worshippers.
• Sephardic Chief Rabbi Dovid Yosef led the service with Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon participating alongside Ambassador Shimon Axel Wahnish.
• Rav Rabinowitz opened with a thanksgiving prayer recalling last year’s Iranian missile assault that curtailed mass gatherings at the site.
• Supplications asked for the return of hostages, comfort for the fallen, healing for the wounded, and protection for Israel’s soldiers and security forces.
• Organizers scheduled another central Selichos for Thursday night, the third of Tishrei, at 12:15 a.m., with tens of thousands expected to attend.