User:Linda Olive/iKotel

iKotel is an app available from the Western Wall Heritage Foundation available on iTunes for the iPhone and iPad. It allows users to view the Western Wall live, compose notes to be placed in the wall, take virtual tours of the Western Wall Tunnels, and features a compass showing the direction of the wall from one's location.

The app was launched in December 2010, welcomed by Western Wall rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz. It can be viewed in English, Hebrew, and Russian. The app was developed for people who dreamed of being in Jerusalem, but who are unable to get there, according to WWHF president Joseph Loshinsky.

The compass on the app works by using the iPhone's global positioning system and gyroscope.