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Case: HCJ 8124/15 Prof. Shulamit Magnus et.al vs The Commissioner of the Western Wall
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At an unspecified date, the Commissioner of the Wall issued regulations which provide Torah Scrolls only to men at the Western Wall, and which declare that no one may bring a private scroll into the Wall’s vicinity.
In 2015, CWJ petitioned the Supreme Court to declare that the Commissioner of the Wall had no jurisdiction to issue regulations that discriminate against women and infringe on their freedom of religion.
This petition is pending. It is being heard together with petitions filed by the Reform Movement’s petitions which, among other things, ask the Court to order the Commissioner to set aside an alternative prayer location at the Western Wall for egalitarian prayer.