Israel Chief Rabbis Isaac Herzog and Isaac Nissim voiced a strong protest today against Jordanian desecration of the Wailing Wall, which is located within the Jordan-held Old City of Jerusalem.
Photographs were received here showing that during the recent election campaign in Jordan posters of various parties ere plastered on the Wall, Jewry’s most sacred Holy Place. The photos evoked considerable indignation here. The statement by Rabbis Herzog and Nissim noted that this was another in a long series of desecrations of Jewish Holy Places and shrines in Jordanian territory.
A patrol of Jordanian soldiers penetrated Israel territory in the vicinity of Beit Jibrin in the South Judean Hills, yesterday and attacked a tractor driver. Other setters from the nearby settlement of Amatzia returned the fire. After a ten-minute exchange, during which there were no casualties, the Jordan ans withdrew.
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