A Day At The Western Wall

Hundreds of people turned out at the Western Wall on Sunday morning June 9 2013 to mark the first day of the month of Tamuz. Some 300 members of the Women of the Wall and their supporters were at the site utilizing, for the second time, the permission granted them by the Jerusalem District Court to pray in the women's section according to their own "custom" - in prayer shawls and tefillin.

Facing them were about 200 ultra-Orthodox protesters. Large numbers of police were on hand to separate the sides and attempt to reduce tensions. Last Rosh Hodesh - for the month of Sivan - the police allowed the hundreds of women to pray, but tensions were great and spilled over into violence as thousands of ultra-Orthodox men and women came out to disrupt the Women of the Wall's prayer service.