Members of the Women of the Wall organization once again carried out their provocative stunts at the Kosel on Tuesday morning, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.

The ushers of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation allowed the women to enter the plaza wearing protest shirts and carrying a suitcase containing a Sefer Torah. Their Reform-style “minyan” at the site aroused great anger among the women in the women’s section, leading to confrontations.

Erez Asher, the director of the Liba Center, said: “Alongside the joy in honor of Rosh Chodesh and the tremendous appreciation for the hundreds of righteous bnos Yisrael, it is sad to see the Reform women desecrating the Kosel again and again. Their provocations will not break us. The hundreds of righteous mispallelos who came today to preserve the kedusha of the holy site will continue the mesorah of the festive tefilla. Am Yisrael knows that the Kosel is the holiest tefillah site that exists for us today—so it was, and so it will be.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)