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In pictures: 'Pope Benedict XVI Continues Visit to Israel'

By James Wray May 12, 2009, 16:19 GMT

Pope Benedict XVI stands next to the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem Old City, May 12, 2009. The Pope is today visiting sites in Jerusalem holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians on the second day of the visit to the Holy Land. On 11 May he paid tribute to Holocaust victims. EPA/DAN BALILTY

Pope Benedict XVI (R) prays after placing a note in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 12, 2009 Pope Benedict visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as part of a pilgrimage marred by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/AVI OHAYAN

A close up of the note that Pope Benedict XVI placed in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 12, 2009 Pope Benedict visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as part of a pilgrimage marred by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/AVI OHAYAN

Pope Benedict XVI places a note in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 12, 2009 Pope Benedict visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as part of a pilgrimage marred by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/PIER PAOLO CITO

Pope Benedict XVI places a note in the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 12, 2009. Pope Benedict visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as part of a pilgrimage marred by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/TONY GENTILE

Pope Benedict XVI (centre) is accompanied by local Muslim leaders after visiting the Dome of the Rock, located on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem 11 May 2009. On the 2nd day of his visit to the Holy Land, the Pontiff visited sites in Jerusalem that are holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians. Temple Mount is a site sacred to all three religions in the city. EPA/GPO/HO EDITORIAL USE ONLY

A Vatican aide helps Pope Benedict XVI to remove his shoes as he is about to enter the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem 11 May 2009 -- the first pontiff to see the site. On the second day of his visit to the Holy Land the Pope was giving sites in Jerusalem holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians. EPA/GPO/HAND EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Pope Benedict XVI (right) passes an Orthodox Jew after placing a note in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 12, 2009 Pope Benedict visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as part of a pilgrimage marred by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/ETTORE FERRARI

Pope Benedict XVI receives a framed scroll from Israeli chief Rabbis, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi (left) and the Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amarr at the center for the Jewish Heritage in Jerusalem. May 12, 2009 during the second day of his visit to the Holy Lands. EPA/Kobi Gideon

A Palestinian security guard stands in front of a welcome note to Pope Benedict XVI on a wall near a section of Israel's separation barrier at the Aida Refugee Camp, near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, 12 May 2009, one day before Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the West Bank. The pope will meet senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders, top Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious officials and Palestinian refugees living in the shadow of Israel's controversial separation barrier near the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born in Bethlehem. EPA/ABED AL HASHLAMOUN

Pope Benedict XVI blesses Christians at the Latin Patriarch Church in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday May 12,2009.The German-born Pontiff visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as part of a pilgrimage marred by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/BRIAN HENDLER

Pope Benedict XVI (C, back) during his Holy Mass in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, 12 May 2009, as a Palestinian in the crowd waves a small Palestinian flag. On the second day of his holy land visit in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Pope Benedict XVI visited Jewish and Muslim holy sites at the heart of the Middle East conflict, and celebrated mass in the Kidron valley where Christians believe God will sit in judgement at the end of time. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Pope Benedict XVI (L) leads a mass at the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, 12 May 2009, where it is believed Jesus had his final prayer before he was betrayed and arrested. Pope Benedict XVI visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of a pilgrimage beset by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/YANNIS BEHRAKIS - POOL

Members of the clergy take part in a mass led by Pope Benedict XVI (not pictured) at the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, 12 May 2009, where it is believed Jesus had his final prayer before he was betrayed and arrested. Pope Benedict XVI visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of a pilgrimage beset by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/YANNIS BEHRAKIS - POOL

A group of nuns under the Old City walls of Jerusalem as they attend the Holy Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in the Kidron Valley on 12 May 2009. Pope Benedict XVI arrived late Tuesday afternoon in his Popemobil to the Garden of Gethsemane, outside the walled Old City of Jerusalem, to conduct an open-air mass attended by thousands of pilgrims and local Palestinian and Arab-Israeli Christians. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Pope Benedict XVI is seen on a screen as he waves to the faithful at the conclusion of a mass at the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, 12 May 2009, where it is believed Jesus had his final prayer before he was betrayed and arrested. Pope Benedict XVI visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of a pilgrimage beset by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/YANNIS BEHRAKIS - POOL

A girl and her father, a monk, kneel in prayer during the Holy Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, 12 May 2009. On the second day of his holy land visit in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Pope Benedict XVI visited Jewish and Muslim holy sites at the heart of the Middle East conflict, and celebrated mass in the Kidron valley where Christians believe God will sit in judgement at the end of time. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

People shelter from the sun as they wait for the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI for a mass at the Garden of Gethsemane at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, 12 May 2009, where it is believed Jesus had his final prayer before he was betrayed and arrested. Pope Benedict XVI visited holy sites in Jerusalem at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as part of a pilgrimage beset by Jewish disappointment over his remarks on the Holocaust. EPA/YANNIS BEHRAKIS - POOL