Jews given new link to God

A note is seen placed at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site. From this week notes can be sent by e-mail.

JEWS who want to send notes to heaven used to have to travel to Jerusalem and stuff them into the crevices of the Western Wall. Now, they can log onto the internet and send them by e-mail.

The service, announced yesterday by Israel’s Bezeq telephone company, expands on the company’s existing fax service to the Wall, which receives about 200 notes a week.

Since more people have access to the internet than fax machines, Bezeq hopes the e-mail service will bring many more notes.

Tradition holds that God will grant the pleas placed between the massive stones of the Wall, a retaining wall that surrounded the Jewish Temple.

Bezeq currently takes the faxed notes, puts them in special envelopes and twice a week brings them to the Wall.

Most of the notes come from New York and Europe, but the company says it has received notes in Japanese and even one that came with a letter saying it had been smuggled out of Iran.