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| By: Ynetnews |
| Published: February 13, 2007 |
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A decade-long struggle for the right to pray at the Western Wall came to an on Wednesday when the Conservative Movement in Israel withdrew its petition regarding freedom of worship at Robinson's Arch, on the southern side of the Western Wall.
The petition was filed with the Supreme Court in 2006, following difficulties for Conservative Jews to access Robinson's Arch.
Conservative worshippers wishing to pray in mixed gender groups have been congregating at the arch, which is located in the Archeological Gardens, since 1998. This is because attempts at mixed group prayer elsewhere along the Wall were met with violence by ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Still, technically along the Western Wall, the Robinson's Arch is separated from the Temple's main square by a large dirt mound, blocking the Conservative worshippers from view and thus preventing altercations with other worshippers.
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