Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Jerusalem's Western Wall on Monday, slipping a note between the stones before heading to a memorial service for assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Children threw candy toward Clinton as she posed with women celebrating their sons' Bar Mitzvahs — a Jewish rite of passage — at the Western Wall. A blue shawl draped around her shoulders, the New York Democrat spent a few solitary moments before the massive structure but did not reveal the contents of her note.
Many Jews believe that pleas placed between the stones of the holy site will be answered by God.
Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, traveled to Amman for a few hours Sunday to pay their respects to Jordan's King Abdullah II after 57 people were killed in a triple bombing there last week.