Meeting between Netanyahu and chief rabbis canceled

A meeting that was planned for Sunday between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the chief rabbis regarding the allocation of a non-Orthodox prayer space at the Kotel for Reform and Conservative Jews was abruptly canceled late on Saturday night.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to meet on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to discuss the government's decision around three weeks ago to create a new prayer space for Reform and Conservative Jews at the Kotel and remove the area from the authority of the rabbinate, transferring it to the control of the Prime Minister's Office in a breach of the status quo.