THE WAILING WALL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2450, 20 June 1931, Page 3

THE WAILING WALL

DISPUTE AT JERUSALEM (Aust. and N.Z. Cahle* London, June 18. Clear definitions of the right- of Jews and Moslems in the vicinity of the historic “Wailing Wall” are contained in the decisions of the committee which was appointed by the Britsh Government to adjudicate on the rival claims to the wall.

J©\vs will not be permitted to blow the ram’s horn near the W ailing Wall, or otherwise avoidably' to disturb the Moslems, while the Moslems will not be allowed to carry out the Zikr ceremony to the pavement adjoining the wall during Jewish devotions.

The committee has decided that the Wailing Wall and the pavement are both the property of the Moslems, but Jews must be given free access for devotional purposes, subject to certain stipulations. These include a provision that the

Jews must not us© appurtcnanc.es of worship except the Ark containing scrolls of law, and the tables carrying them. The Palestine Administration is to Dkc over the maintenance of the Wailing Wall as a historic monument.