"The Women of the Wall have been holding their monthly prayers and clashing with their opponents at the Western Wall for over three decades but..."

"...the confrontations have taken on a wider significance recently as part of the political battle in Israel between the right-wing alliance of the former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is now in opposition, and the diverse coalition supporting Naftali Bennett’s government. Five years ago Bennett, then a minister in the Netanyahu government, brokered an agreement among Jewish groups under which the prayers at the main Western Wall plaza would continue to be held under the strictly Orthodox segregated rules while 'egalitarian' groups would be allowed to hold non-segregated services in an enclosure by the southernmost point of the ancient wall, built around the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago by King Herod. However, the ultra-Orthodox parties that had accepted the compromise pulled out when their involvement was publicised and have since adamantly opposed any concessions to the non-Orthodox groups they accuse of 'desecrating' the holy site."

From "Clashes over women’s right to pray at Wall in Jerusalem" (London Times).