MK Rabbi Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) on Sunday responded to the Israeli government’s capitulation to the Women of the Wall and the Reform Movement, with an email statement saying, “Anyone who thinks that the ‘women of the wall’ will settle for the southern wall (kotel hadromi) does not understand their war. Their aim is to create loopholes in the holiest place of the Jewish people.
“They want to expel the Divine Presence and the sanctity of the holiest place of the people of Israel.
“Reform groups slander Israel, saying that the Western Wall is not something that unites the people of Israel, but rather the focus of controversy and strife. These are the same organizations that incite against the Israeli occupation and portray Israel as an apartheid state that should be boycotted internationally.
“For half a century, millions of Jews from all sects and classes have come to pray at the Western Wall in unity and joy. The Reformers want to turn it into a place of licentiousness, so that an ultra-Orthodox Jew will be forced to stay away from the Holy of Holies – the remnants of our holy temple.
“We will stay there. Even if the Palestinian flag were to fly there, we will not give up on the sanctity of the Western Wall. The nation of Israel will continue to cling to the Western Wall and fight for the purity and sanctity of this holy place of prayer.”