Five years on, ‘Kotel crisis’ sparked the next phase of global Jewish connectivity
The agreement’s shocking reversal caused by pressure from the ultra-Orthodox faction of Netanyahu’s coalition, created a deep sense abroad that the Jewish state had just rejected the Jewish world.
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the annual Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem, in 2019.(photo credit: NOAM REVKIN FENTON/FLASH90)ByNAAMA KLAR, TRACY FRYDBERG