1.   At sundown, the usual traffic of Jewish worshipers will crowd the plaza at the Western Wall.

2.   In a separate hall, on the other side of iron gates and unseen by the Jewish worshipers, were a handful of Muslims.

3.   Negotiators have yet to agree on arrangements for Jewish worshipers at the tomb of the Biblical figure who was sold into slavery by his brothers.

4.   The Christian believers were easy to pick out among the usual tourists and throngs of Jewish worshipers gathering for prayers at the Western Wall.

5.   Tuesday, angry Palestinian youths pelted Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall with stones, forcing a brief evacuation.

6.   Wednesday afternoon, two Israeli women were wounded when Palestinian snipers fired into a crowd of thousands of Jewish worshipers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

7.   Police cleared Jewish worshipers away from the Western Wall, which runs below the Al Aqsa compound.

8.   Police spokesman Eric Bar-Chen said the Tomb would probably be off-limits to Jewish worshipers for four days during the month of Ramadan.

9.   Police spokesman Eric Bar-Chen said the Tomb would probably be off-limits to Jewish worshipers for several days of Ramadan, but not throughout the whole month.

10.   Abdel Abu Irmaileh, who was seriously wounded in the attack, said Israeli metal detectors and procedures to separate Muslim and Jewish worshipers do little to reassure him.