 According to the Palestinian National Authority , the Jews did not consider the Wall as a place for worship except after the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917 . PA @-@ appointed Mufti of Jerusalem , Sheikh <unk> Sa 'id Sabri , believes that the Wall belongs to the Muslims alone . In 2000 he related that " No stone of the Al @-@ Buraq wall has any relation to Judaism . The Jews began praying at this wall only in the nineteenth century , when they began to develop [ national ] aspirations . " A year later he stated : 
