Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yossi Deitsch of the haredi Degel Hatorah party, along with several other party members, has been coordinating with the senior haredi rabbinic leadership in order to get approval for the protest. Deitsch’s office said on Sunday that buses have been arranged for the 7,000 haredi high-school girls in Jerusalem haredi girls high-schools to transport them to the Western Wall on Monday morning. The buses will be leaving haredi neighborhoods at 5:30am in order to arrive at the site ahead of the Women of the Wall who have scheduled their prayer service for 7:00am.
Deitch described the Women of the Wall as “a small handful of women who are just interested in causing a provocation.
“The real women of the wall are those righteous women who go every day to pray sincerely at the Western Wall. What the so called Women of the Wall are doing is a debasement of the Western Wall.”
In response to the protest being arranged, Women of the Wall said that they welcomed the arrival of the haredi girls.
“Though this may be intended to intimidate and overpower Women of the Wall, we truly welcome the young women and their prayers,” the organization said in a statement on its website.
“This act just proves what we have always said: there is enough room at the Kotel for all women from all backgrounds and traditions to pray side-by-side. Women
