An Israeli paraglider tries to save migrating swifts that nest in the Western Wall

Swifts have nested in Jerusalem's Western Wall since biblical times. Now one Israeli paraglider is trying to save them.

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Swifts have nested in Jerusalem's Western Wall since biblical times. JERUSALEM. Every spring at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a rabbi presides over a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the common swift in its great migration about 2,800 miles from Africa. Between February and June, men's and women's prayers at the wall mix with the calls of the birds that swoop. And dart above this ancient religious site. Modern translations of the Bible quote Jeremiah contrasting the regular visits of the swifts with the failure of many of the faithful to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. "Even the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times / And the turtledove, the swift. And the swallow / Observe the time of their coming / But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord." "The connection between birds.

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From the storySwifts have nested in Jerusalem's Western Wall since biblical times.

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From the storyEvery spring at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a rabbi presides over a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the common swift in its great migration about 2,800 miles from Africa.

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From the storyModern translations of the Bible quote Jeremiah contrasting the regular visits of the swifts with the failure of many of the faithful to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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From the storySwifts have nested in Jerusalem's Western Wall since biblical times.

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From the storyEvery spring at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a rabbi presides over a ceremony to welcome the arrival of the common swift in its great migration about 2,800 miles from Africa.

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