Lapid calls on government to implement Kotel deal in response to synagogue shooting

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid opens his party’s faction meeting by calling on the government to unfreeze its compromise deal to expand the pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall in response to the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh last week.

“The government must implement the Western Wall framework which was agreed upon by all streams of Judaism, including the Orthodox,” Lapid says.

“It must recognize conversions from all streams of Judaism. It must recognize marriages from all streams of Judaism and pass the Civil Union law which we proposed in the Knesset,” he adds.

“The terrible murders in Pittsburgh are a reminder to everyone who says that Reform and Conservative Jews aren’t real Jews. Those good Jews, who love Israel, were murdered in synagogue, on Shabbat morning, opposite the Holy Ark, wrapped in a tallit just after they said, “How great are your tents, O Jacob, your dwelling places, O Israel!”