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Shmuel Rabinovitch is the rabbi in charge of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation responsible for the upkeep of the Western Wall .¹ Among his duties, he is responsible for ensuring that notes placed in the wall are removed and treated consistent with tradition and halachah as well as enforcing guidelines around the Wall about modesty and not taking photographs on Jewish holidays.² The Western Wall is a frequent source of political and religious controversy and Rabinowits has both been involved in and commented on many such controversies. In May 2008, Rabinowitz prevented a delegation of Roman Catholic clergy from visiting the Wall while they had visible crosses. Rabinowitz stated that anyone was welcome to pray at the wall as long as they did not offend Jewish sensibility by wearing symbols of other religions. In a similar incident in 2007 with a group of Austrian clergy, Rabinowitz claimed that when Pope John Paul II visited the Wall he had not had a visible cross but pictures of the Pope's visit contradicted this claim. Rabinowitz has advocated similar views concerning Pope Benedict XVI , although Israeli diplomatic sources have dismissed the rabbi's proposal. The Rabbi ultra conservative rabbi has been involved with controversy over the wall with other Jews who had different religious interpretations. Rabinowitz has maintained regid gender separations at the wall siding with the ultra orthodox Jewish minority against the more numerous non-orthodox Jews. However, he then took the principle to a new extreme. In 2009, an orthodox woman was praying in the "women's section" and self appointed ultra orthodox men violently objected. The woman was wearing a traditional Jewish prayer shawl, a practice to which a few ultra orthodox objected as women in a religious prayer leadership role offended their sense of propriety. With the authority of Rabbi Rabinowitz, the police arrested the praying woman. The rabbi's explanation was “It is an act of provocation that seeks to turn the Western Wall into disputed territory … A prayer that causes contention and desecration of the sanctity of the Western Wall has no value. It is an act of protest.” The woman has not been charged as she violated no law and even if she were protesting, that is a cherished freedom in democratic Israel.³

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Shmuel Rabinovitch , also spelled Rabinowitz ( ) (born 4 April 1970, Jerusalem ) is an Orthodox rabbi and Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel . Among his duties at the Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem , he is responsible for ensuring that notes placed in the Wall are removed and treated consistent with tradition and halakhah , as well as enforcing guidelines around the Wall about modesty and not taking photographs on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. He often escorts visiting heads of state and foreign dignitaries during their visit to the Wall, and has been an outspoken defender of Torah values at the Jewish people's holiest site.

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Shmuel Rabinovitch , also spelled Rabinowitz ( ) (born 4 April 1970, Jerusalem ) is an Orthodox rabbi and Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel . In his duties as Rabbi of the Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem , Rabbi Rabinovich maintains the historic traditional Jewish practices of the Wall as a site of orthodox Jewish prayer and ensures that notes placed in the Wall are removed and treated consistent with tradition and halakhah . He escorts visiting heads of state and foreign dignitaries during visits to the Wall, and has published on the Jewish laws and customs of the Western Wall.

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Shmuel Rabinovitch , also spelled Rabinowitz ( ) (born 4 April 1970, Jerusalem ) is an Orthodox rabbi and Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel . In his duties as Rabbi of the Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem , Rabbi Rabinovich maintains the historic traditional Jewish practices of the Wall as a site of orthodox Jewish prayer and ensures that notes placed in the Wall are removed and treated consistent with tradition and halakhah . He escorts visiting heads of state and foreign dignitaries during visits to the Wall, and has published on the Jewish laws and customs of the Western Wall .

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Israeli Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch , also spelled Rabinowitz ( Hebrew : 'שמואל רבינוביץ ; born 4 April 1970, Jerusalem ) is an Orthodox rabbi and Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel . In his duties as Rabbi of the Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem , Rabbi Rabinovich maintains the historic traditional Jewish practices of the Wall as a site of orthodox Jewish prayer and ensures that notes placed in the Wall are removed and treated consistent with tradition and halakhah . He escorts visiting heads of state and foreign dignitaries during visits to the Wall, and has published on the Jewish laws and customs of the Western Wall .

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