Jerusalem Cable Car Will Avoid Muslim AreaIsrael announced plans yesterday to string a cable car around the edge of Jerusalem's Old City to carry thousands of visitors to the Western Wall, the most sacred of Jewish shrines.
Under the plan, gondolas carrying as many as 70 people would travel from west Jerusalem around the Old City's walls, past the site of the Last Supper on Mount Zion to a terminus near Dung Gate. While it would be open to passengers of all faiths, the cable car is intended primarily to ease access to the Western Wall for tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers.