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To: i-node who wrote (401163)	7/24/2008 1:44:43 AM
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Obama Visits the Wall By Jeff Zeleny thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com Senator Barack Obama at the Western Wall early Thursday. (Photo: Paul J. Richards/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) JERUSALEM — Senator Barack Obama made a pre-dawn visit here Thursday to the Western Wall, arriving in the Old City as a clear moon helped illuminate a still-dark sky. Mr. Obama, wearing a white yarmulke, made his way down a walkway toward the Wall. He was escorted by the Rabbi of the Wall, Shmuel Rabinovich, and surrounded by many other followers at one of the holiest sites in Judaism. As the rabbi quietly read from Psalm 122, both he and Mr. Obama flipped through a Holy book on a wooden stand. The moment unfolded as a lone man standing about 10 yards away yelled over and over, “Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale! Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!” After the prayer, Mr. Obama walked a final few paces to the Wall and followed the custom of placing a personal prayer between the stone cracks, with his note left alongside hundreds of others. He placed his hand on the Wall, bowed his head and stood in quiet contemplation for a few moments. The heckler continued his chant as Mr. Obama walked away from the Wall. Several other men tried to drown out his voice with chants of, “Obama, Obama, Obama.” “It was a little rowdier than the last time I was there,” Mr. Obama said later. Dozens of people cheered and reached out to grab the senator’s hand as he walked away from his final appearance of the day in Jerusalem. With this symbolic image captured, Mr. Obama set off for Germany.