Avi Maoz of Religious Zionism's Noam faction calls for closure of Western Wall egalitarian section if he's to join coalition, but will support Netanyahu-led government regardless
Very quickly, the haredi world realized that it was unwise to protect Walder. Rabbi Meiselman, a descendant of the Brisker dynasty, turned Walder into a non-haredi.
Rabbi Tsvi Tau in 2018 (video screenshot)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly agreed to temporarily curb the entrance of Jews to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site to appease an ultra-conservative rabbi and convince him to publicly back a government propped up by the Islamist Ra’am party, according to a report Wednesday.
The quid pro quo was alleged by unnamed Temple Mount activists who spoke to the Yedioth Ahronoth daily.
Before Netanyahu’s Tuesday midnight deadline to form a government passed, the premier had been pressuring the far-right Religious Zionism party, headed by Bezalel Smotrich, to accept Ra’am as a legitimate political partner.