The process of removal is being carried out in accordance with halachic instructions, using gloves and disposable wooden tools.
This check is conducted annually around Rosh Hashanah and Passover, to make sure that Western Wall prayer does not pose a safety risk to anyone.
A significant change was proposed for the access to this "mixed" prayer area in the Kotel Compromise.
UJIA's new policy on travel beyond the Green Line - including to the Kotel - raises fresh challenges and triggers diverse responses within the UK's Jewish community.
worry that the Western Wall is being unintentionally appropriated by religious Jews.
This year's celebration was set against a backdrop of ongoing protests and turmoil in Jerusalem surrounding the proposed judicial reform.
This is the first hearing taking place on the issue in the past two years and the first during this government.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Chaos broke out across the Kotel as Women of the Wall held prayer services in the main plaza and Noam Party activists took over the egalitarian section.
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