In the video: a violent protest against the women of the Western Wall (Photo: Women of the Western Wall)
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation is expected to approve today (Sunday) the bill of Knesset member Uriel Bosso of Shas that would prohibit mixed prayer or arriving in immodest clothing at the Western Wall, and according to which, whoever violated the law - would be sentenced to six months in prison or a fine of 10,000 shekels. The proposal will be promoted In accordance with the coalition agreements with the religious and ultra-Orthodox factions, and following pressure from Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, who demanded that the proposal be approved in a preliminary reading this coming Wednesday. The goal, according to political sources, is to prevent the women of the Western Wall, the Reformers, and the Conservatives from holding mixed prayers in the central square of the Western Wall. , in preparation for a hearing to be held this month at the High Court on petitions against the state.
The bill states that the Western Wall and the conduct thereof will be subject to the instructions of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Places, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, and within this framework it will be prohibited to conduct a religious ceremony "that is not according to local custom" as well as "a mixed prayer of men and women" or "a ceremony that includes Taking out a Torah scroll and reading it, blowing the shofar, wrapping oneself in a tallit or putting on a tefillin" in the field of women's aid, customs of the women of the Western Wall and the reform and conservative currents.
It will also be forbidden to arrive "in an outfit that does not suit the sanctity of the place".
The rabbi of the Western Wall or someone on his behalf will have the right to remove any person from the Western Wall who interferes with him in fulfilling his powers or who has broken the law, and he will be punished by six months' imprisonment or a fine of 10,000 shekels.
exerts pressure to pass the proposal.
Deri (Photo: Flash 90, Tomer Neuberg)
Deri demanded that the bill be advanced for approval in a preliminary reading due to a hearing to be held at the High Court in the next two weeks, in which the state is required to allow mixed prayers at the Western Wall plaza or to give official recognition to Israel's mixed aid for the purpose of allowing mixed prayers between men and women. Deri, according to sources in the S, believes that if the bill is advanced in a preliminary reading - the state will be able to say in the High Court that it is advancing the regulation of the place through legislation and there is no room for judicial intervention. Likud is expected to support the legislation and advance it for approval in the plenum.
Knesset member Gilad Karib said in response that "the ultra-orthodox politicians are thwarting the implementation of the historic compromise outline at the Western Wall and are also demanding that the chief rabbi be given a predatory monopoly on the holy site. If Netanyahu wants to see pictures of women being thrown into a detention cell in the state of the Jewish people because they pray with a tallit, he is invited to advance the proposal This scandalous law. This bill is another reminder that what begins with the Western Wall and the Western Wall will end in Tel Aviv, Be'er Sheva, Afula and Nazareth and with regard to the rights of all Israeli citizens."
Member of Knesset Mirav Cohen added: "Deri was confused as to whether he thinks the Wall belongs to his father."
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The chairman of the state camp faction, Ze'ev Elkin, criticized the proposal. "Two Deri laws in one week?
Dressing immodestly at the Western Wall in the opinion of the Western Wall rabbi's inspector, bringing musical instruments, a ceremony not according to the Western Wall's rabbi's instructions, and another six months in prison?
Have you gone crazy?", he said. "The only consolation is that according to the Deri I law, whoever receives this sentence of six months in prison will still be able to be appointed minister.
So you can say that two Deri laws balance each other out."
The Women of the Western Wall organization responded that "this is a time of emergency for all those who value a Jewish and democratic Israel, for all those who see an important value in preserving the Western Wall as the home of the entire Jewish people. The complete subordination of local custom to the Chief Rabbinate is in complete contrast to the existing situation and seriously harms the freedom of religion and worship of praying in general and praying with the help of women in particular. The meaning of the law is that for the first time women will be prevented by legislation from praying in their own way and anyone who does not submit to the authority of the rabbinate will simply become a criminal. The fact that the Israeli government intends to outlaw the prayer of the women of the Western Wall and prohibit millions of Jewish men and women from praying in their own way at the Western Wall - is A scandal and we will not stand by."
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