Western Wall

This guide to the Western Wall in Jerusalem centers on the morning of June 7, 1967, when Israeli paratroopers reached the wall for the first time in nineteen years and the army's chief rabbi, Shlomo Goren, arrived to lead a prayer service only to discover he had left his own prayer book behind. It follows the young sergeant who lent him a standard-issue copy and the shofar blast that followed, whose credit soldiers still argue over. Listen for how an ordinary lapse became part of that day's own story.