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Member of Knesset Rabbi Gilad Karib compared the abuse of women at the Western Wall to sexual harassment, during the Bar Association's annual conference: "Women of the Western Wall come to the Western Wall to pray, not to provoke, To journalist Ayelet Kahana.
He said, "They encounter dozens of thugs who spit and curse, and the time has come for us to differentiate between a victim and an attacker in the State of Israel. It is just like a situation of sexual harassment, that it is not two people who bear the blame together."
The women of the Western Wall and MK Karib participated in prayers at the Western Wall and a riot broke out // Archive photo: Women of the Western Wall and MK Karib's spokeswoman
Last November, clashes broke out between the ultra-Orthodox public and the women of the Western Wall, in light of the intention of the women of the Western Wall to hold a march in protest that they were not allowed to enter the Western Wall plaza.
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