This is my first private visit to Israel after completing my term as President of ARZA Australia but it has changed my view of many things there.
When planning my trip I realised that I would be in Jerusalem for Rosh Chodesh.
The Western Wall was a scene of pandemonium and unprecedented violence on Wednesday morning, after Reform and Conservative Jewish leaders broke through security barriers with Torah scrolls in their arms, in defiance of the ultra-Orthodox authorities who run the holy site, in protest against Israel’s inaction on providing a promised egalitarian prayer space.
