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Western Wall Women's Storm: President Herzog Turns - and MKs Karib and Tal Will Not Come to Prayer | Israel Today

2021-11-04T23:18:50.541Z


The president's request is aimed, he said, at "preventing a clash between elected officials in front of the remains of our temple" • MK Karib: "Acknowledges efforts to prevent unprecedented conflict"


The friction between the women of the Western Wall and the Reformers:

President Yitzhak Herzog addressed MKs Gilad Karib and Alon Tal yesterday (Thursday), asking them not to attend the prayer service that will be held today at the Western Wall. Our temple. "

The president informed MK Karib that at the same time he instructed the director general of the President's House, Eyal Shuiki, to open talks next week with all parties related to prayer on the Western Wall plaza, in order to hear their positions and try and find possible solutions to the crisis.

MKs Karib and Tal responded to the request and the president thanked them for it.

MK Porush protests in the Constitution Committee over MK Karib's visit to the Western Wall with the women of the Western Wall - and began reading Psalms, last month // Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman

Herzog said: "The possibility that elected officials will confront the plaza of the Temple Mount, the holiest place for Judaism and the place to which all the Jews in the world are drawn, is deeply ingrained in me - especially when we remember how the conflict ended about two thousand years ago. "And I call on everyone to exercise restraint and mutual respect in the hope of finding paths of peace in our people."

Karib also issued a statement on his behalf after Herzog's appeal, in which he wrote: "This is the message we will bring to the meeting with the President."

As mentioned, the storm began in light of Shas' activity to bring its people to the Western Wall plaza so that, in the party's words, they would "defend" the compound from reformers. Reformist, intends to introduce a Torah scroll - something that is a provocation in terms of Shas.

Source: israelhayom

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