Overview
- The Western Wall Heritage Foundation published a full schedule for nightly candle-lightings from December 14 through December 21, each accompanied by live music.
- A newly installed cast-bronze menorah anchors the ceremonies, standing over two meters tall, nearly two meters wide, weighing about one ton, and produced over roughly seven months.
- Organizers say participants will include rabbis, government ministers, foreign ambassadors, former hostages, bereaved families, wounded soldiers, IDF personnel, police, security forces and the public.
- All nights except Friday and Saturday night will stream live on the foundation’s website to reach viewers at home, on IDF bases and in rehabilitation hospitals.
- Times vary by night, with an earlier start on Friday (3:30 p.m.) and a later start on Saturday night (8:00 p.m.), and the events carry the theme, “And the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with song.”