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| December 10, 2013
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Apple Locates Western Wall (Kotel) as in Palestine

 

People were shocked to find their iPhone 5 identifying Jerusalem’s Western Wall (Kotel) in the Palestinian Territories.

By David Lazarus

 

Apple is often first in breaking new ground with the latest hi-tech gadgets. Now the company has introduced yet another brand new notion: Jerusalem‚Äôs Wailing Wall (known as the Kotel) is in “Palestine.”

Apple's Wailing Wall is in Palestine

Apple identifies location of the Kotel (Wailing Wall): The West Bank, East Jerusalem.

The company that brought us the innovative iPhone now offers the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while the rest of the world, led by the Americans, still try to broker a shaky final status. Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2013
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Women of the Wall agree to pray in newly designated space

Women of the Wall is demanding that the Robinson’s Arch section be equal to the existing plaza in size, topography, budget and facilities.

By JTA

TEL AVIV — Women of the Wall agreed in principle to pray in a new egalitarian space adjacent to the Western Wall Plaza, provided the space meets several conditions regarding design and management.

Women of the Wall agreed in principle to pray in a new egalitarian space adjacent to the Western Wall Plaza. – JTA

Until those conditions are met, Women of the Wall said in a statement Monday that it will continue praying at the women’s section of the Western Wall, as the group has for 25 years.

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| October 4, 2013
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Women of the Wall Ignore Newly Designated Prayer Area

Dozens of women avoid the new prayer area recently opened at the Western Wall, convene in the women’s section to mark the new month of Cheshvan.

By Adam Ross

 

Dozens of members of the “Women of the Wall” organization arrived at the Kotel, (Western Wall) Friday morning to celebrate the new Hebrew month of Cheshvan.

The women did not pray at the non-denominational  “Israel Plaza” recently opened by Minister for Religious Affairs MK Naftali Bennett, (Jewish Home), but instead insistence on convening in the women’s section of the Western Wall plaza, surrounded by familiar protests, shouts and police officers.

In contrast to previous months, Women of the Wall had not organized transportation to the Western Wall, with women arriving independently for 7:00 a.m.  Continue Reading »

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| August 31, 2013
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Western Wall opens temporary egalitarian section for the public

 

On its first day, the new section called “Ezrat Yisrael,” hosted 6 bar mitzvahs & weddings.

Bennett says he doesn’t want any controversy surrounding the temporary area, ahead of the Jewish High Holy Days.

By Yori Yalon & Israel Hayom Staff

 

On Thursday, Jerusalem’s new temporary egalitarian section at the Western Wall was opened to the public.

Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall [Archive] – Photo: AP

The provisional space, temporary until the government builds a permanent structure designed for non-Orthodox Jewish streams at the Western Wall, is at the Robinson’s Arch area adjacent to the Western Wall Plaza.

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| August 13, 2013
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Palestinian Authority Denies Jews Any Rights to Western Wall

 

Decree is just another example in a string of anti-Israel propaganda, as “peace talks” are set to begin.

By Ari Soffer

 

In what is being described as yet another example of Palestinian Authority (PA) denial of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the very legitimacy of the State of Israel, the Presidential Guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has claimed the Western Wall as an Arab and Islamic site.

Last week, a picture of the Western Wall was posted onto the PA Presidential Guard’s official Facebook page with a PA flag superimposed on it, along with the words “The Al Buraq Wall – Public Relations and Information – The Presidential Guard – Palestinian youth know their rights.”

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| July 29, 2013
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Women of the Wall asks for use of Kotel’s Torah scroll or to bring in its own

Anat Hoffman, chair of Women of the Wall said it was “absurd” that Rabinowitz has refused Women of the Wall’s offer to donate a Torah scroll to the Kotel (Western Wall) for use by female worshipers there.

By JTA

 

Women of the Wall asked the rabbi of the Western Wall to allow the group to use one of the site’s Torah scrolls.

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Western Wall Torah Ark, inside men’s section of Wilson’s Arch – Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons

In a letter sent Sunday, Women of the Wall made the request to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz  for their Rosh Chodesh prayer service, marking the start of the new Jewish month.

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| July 26, 2013
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Two opposing women’s groups vie for status quo settlement at Western Wall

‘Women for the Wall’ strenuously oppose ‘Woman of the Wall’, for their attempts to force a change in the status quo at the Kotel.

By Ben Sales

 

JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the morning of July 8, at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Av, the Western Wall plaza was a cacophonous mess.

Women of the Wall, the activist group that holds women’s prayer services each month at the site known as the Kotel, loudly sang festive prayers at a spot far from the wall itself. Police had barricaded them there, ostensibly for their own protection. A few feet away, a group of harediOrthodox boys shouted at them, called them Nazis, blew whistles, waved signs and raised a primal scream.

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| July 16, 2013
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Temple Mount closed on Tisha B’av to Jewish visitors

Islamic terror prevails on Temple Mount, Judaism’s most Holy site. Jews bared from entry to prevent Arab violence.

By the JTA

 

JERUSALEM — The Jerusalem Police closed the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors a day after Arabs protested such visits.

A Muslim policeman and Jordanian Waqf official followed the Jewish group closely, urging them to move quickly.

When allowed to ascend to the Mount, policeman and Jordanian Waqf official followed the Jewish groups closely, to guarantee they don’t pray & urging them to move quickly. – Photo: Atara Beck

The closure on Tuesday coincided with the fast of Tisha B’av, a day of Jewish mourning for the destruction of the two Jewish Temples that were located on the site.

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| June 21, 2013
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Jew who Yelled Allahu Akbar Shot & killed at Western Wall

A Jewish man has been killed this morning at the Western Wall complex in a shooting after yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ and then making suspicious movement.

By Maayana Miskin & Ernie Singer

 

A civilian guard shot a Jewish man at the Kotel (Western Wall) on Friday morning.

Paramedics attempted to revive the man for 20 minutes, but were ultimately forced to declare his death.

The incident took place in the public bathrooms at the site. No others were injured in the incident.

The guard reported that the man shouted, “Allahu Akbar,” and pulled an unidentified object from his pocket. “Allahu Akbar,” literally “G-d is great,” in Arabic, is often shouted by terrorists immediately before an attack. Continue Reading »

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| June 13, 2013
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Arabs say ‘No’ to Israel’s Western Wall plans for egalitarian prayer-site

PA religious affairs minister says replacing Mugrabi Bridge to Temple Mount for egalitarian section may “push all of us to new conflicts and problems,” stressing the Western Wall is an Islamic holy site.

By GIL HOFFMAN
 

 

The Palestinian Authority will not permit Israel to change the entrance to the Temple Mount in order to facilitate the building of an egalitarian prayer area near the Western Wall, PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud El Habash told The Jerusalem Post in Ramallah Thursday morning.

PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud El Habash.- Photo Gil Hoffman

PA Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud El Habash.- Photo Gil Hoffman

Sharansky’s plan will allow for the construction of an additional section of the Western Wall Plaza at the southern end of the Kotel, equal in size and height as the northern prayer area, for egalitarian prayer and accessible as part of one unified Western Wall complex with a single entrance.

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| June 9, 2013
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Women of the Wall service this month ends without arrests

Large number of Jerusalem Police & Border Police deploy to Western Wall to encounter only several dozen haredim, so there wasn’t a recurrence of last month’s violent clashes between women & ultra-Orthodox protesters.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Despite fears of a showdown, the Women of the Wall went ahead with their monthly prayer service at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Sunday morning, in a morning that turned out to be relatively uneventful.

The Women of the Wall praying at the Western Wall [archive] – Photo: Contact

Last month, thousands of ultra-Orthodox teenagers were bused in for an organized demonstration against the Women of the Wall, and clashed violently with police and members of the group during the prayer service.

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| June 4, 2013
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Federations of North America support Sharansky’s Western Wall compromise

The plan calls for the Robinson’s Arch archeological site at the southern part of the Western Wall to be used as a permanent space for egalitarian prayer. Under the proposal, the Western Wall plaza would be expanded to encompass the additional prayer space.

 

By JTA

 

The Jewish Federations of North America’s board of trustees passed a resolution supporting Natan Sharansky’s proposed compromise on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.

Robinson’s Arch archeological site at the southern part of the Western Wall to be used as a permanent space for egalitarian prayer.

Robinson’s Arch archeological site at the southern part of the Western Wall to be used as a permanent space for egalitarian prayer.

Monday’s resolution, according to a JFNA statement, says the compromise “develops a pathway whereby the Kotel will once again become a spiritual center for all Jews and a symbol of unity for the entire Jewish community world-wide.”

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| May 22, 2013
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Yesh Atid’s bill promotes division of Western Wall equally between men & women

MK Aliza Lavie says current situation must change, where the men’s section at the Kotel can no longer be 3 times larger than the women’s.

Gideon Allon

 

Chairwoman of Knesset’s Committee on the Status of Women MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) has presented a bill promoting equally dividing the Western Wall plaza between men and women in terms of physical space.

Separate and unequal. Men and women’s sections at the Western Wall [Archive] – Photo: Uria Tadmor

The bill states that currently, the men’s section is three times bigger than the women’s section, forcing women who pray at the holy site to crowd together, while more often than not, the men’s section remains half empty.

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| May 9, 2013
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Minister Bennett’s compromise: Prayer shawls allowed but reading the Torah, not

Religious Services Minister, Naftali Bennett, meets the Women of the Wall organization & proposes allowing women to pray out loud & wear prayer shawls, but not wearing tefillin or reading an open Torah.

By Yehuda Shlezinger

 

Religious Services Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) met with the Women of the Wall organization on Tuesday after Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein instructed him to devise specific statutes defining what kind of religious observances would be allowed at the Wall.

Women at the Kotel in Jerusalem – Photo: Connec

During the meeting, Bennett proposed allowing women to wear prayer shawls and pray out loud, but not to wear tefillin and read from open Torah scrolls.

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| May 7, 2013
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Israeli MK seeks new law addressing freedom of prayer at Kotel

Israel’s Attorney General decides not to appeal Jerusalem court’s ruling that essentially enables women to pray as they choose at Western Wall.

Women of the Wall to continue their monthly service as usual on Friday, but Minister Naftali Bennett plans to set new regulations by next month.

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Israel’s Minister of Religious Affairs Naftali Bennett plans to present new regulations for Jewish holy places that could restrict the right of Women of the Wall to pray as they see fit in the future, though he promised to formulate the new rules with input from the women’s group.

Young women wrap themselves in Israeli flags at the Western Wall

Young women wrap themselves in Israeli flags at the Western Wall.

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