Pilgrimage Road is reopened

(JNS) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sept. 15 reopened the Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem, a first-century route linking the City of David to the Temple Mount.

The Pilgrimage Road, a broad stone route used during the Second Temple period, connected the Pool of Siloam, where pilgrims purified themselves in ritual baths, to Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount.

Jerusalem "is forever our city," Netanyahu declared at the ceremony in the City of David, according to a recording published by his office. "It will never be divided again, and there wi...