Women MKs joined Women of the Wall • "despicable behavior "

A clash occurred again at the Western Wall at the Rosh Chodesh prayers of the Women of the Wall organization: despite the objections of police and dressed with a Tallis, this morning (Tuesday) MKs Stav Shafir of Labor, and Tamar Zandberg and Michal Rozin of Meretz joined the prayer of Women of the Wall.

Their presence at the place prevented the detention of other women at the end of the prayer.

Western Wall Police tried to prevent the entry of the MKs to the Kotel, but the three insisted on the right to pray and dress with a tallis.

Over the past 24 years 'Women of the Wall' come every Rosh Chodesh for a prayer at the Western Wall, contrary to the ruling of the High Court, and are arrested by the police. Thanks to the participation of the women MKs this morning, the usual arrests were thwarted.

Later haredi protesters gathered to protest at the women's prayer and blew the shofar.

Last weekend posters were distributed against the 'Women of the Wall', which called to come and protest against the "blasphemy".

Politicians on the right: "They lead to civil war. This is a provocation '

Harav Shmuel Rabinowitz, rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites, responded to the event and said: "A group of women who wish to express their worldview, chose to turn the Kotel into a demonstration site, and bring brothers against brothers in an unnecessary confrontation.

"Their activity is against the law, against the High Court decision, and contrary to clarifications given by the Attorney General, when they were given the opportunity to keep their custom next to the Kotel at Robinson's Arch. But they seek to do so specifically in the women's section, while hurting others' feelings. The crossing of lines will return to Jerusalem the civil war which had destroyed it before "

MK Uri Ariel of the Jewish Home party sent a letter to the Prime Minister in which he wrote: "This group petitioned the Supreme Court ten years ago and the court en banc designated them a place at Robinson's Arch, when the Attorney General explicitly clarified that as a result the police must prevent any violation of the rules of behavior established at the Western Wall. Their extremism will lead us all to civil war, G-d forbid, at the Western Wall square."

MK Miri Regev of Likud Beiteinu responded as well: "The provocation of MKs Zandberg and Shafir is an affront to symbols of power and anarchist actions have become a national sport among the extreme left in Israel.

"One should condemn this despicable behavior that undermines the Holy of Holies and the feelings of the Jewish people and Israeli public," she added.

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