“There is nothing Jewish about cursing, throwing stones and hurling bags of urine” — thus says new Knesset member Michal Rozin of the Meretz party. Together with about 300 women, all members of the “Women of the Wall” organization, Rozin participated last week [May 10] in the monthly Rosh Hodesh prayer service in the Western Wall square, for the new Jewish month of Sivan.
Rozin, together with her fellow fighters Tamar Zandberg (Meretz party) and Stav Shaffir (Labor party), emerged unscathed from the prayer service that was conducted with a police escort, but descended into a violent episode when thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews tried to stop the women by hurling chairs, pouring liquids and throwing stones.