The Rabbi of Radzymin, who is after the Gerer Rebbe the leading Hassidic Rabbi in Poland, is going to Palestine after Purim to be there in time for Passover.
The Radzyminer Rebbe was in Palestine in 1928, and it was his exhortation that a screen must be put up at the Wailing Wall to separate the men and women worshippers at the services held there on the Day of Atonement that led to the screen being pulled down by Police Inspector Duff, which led to the conflict over the Jewish rights at the Wailing Wall.
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