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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cameras-bar-faithful-from-holy-site.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Visitors pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City(AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-cameras-bar-faithful-from-holy-site.jpg" alt="Visitors pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City(AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Jerusalem&#8217;s Western Wall has been declared off limits to the faithful on the holiest day of the week because of security cameras that are blamed for desecrating the Sabbath.</p>
<p>Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, a 100-year-old rabbinical authority widely revered among ultra-Orthodox Jews, said the trouble at Judaism&#8217;s holiest prayer site is with the technology.</p>
<p>Devout Jews strictly adhere to the biblical commandment to refrain from work on the Sabbath.</p>
<p>Mr Eliashiv said those coming into view of the closed-circuit surveillance cameras activate a light inside the devices, violating the Jewish prohibition on operating electronics on the Sabbath.</p>
<p>He said Jews should not visit the site, Israel&#8217;s most-visited, on the Sabbath until the technology has proper rabbinic supervision.</p>
<p>The rabbi overseeing the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, said he and the Jerusalem police were working to fix the problem.</p>
<p>A police spokesman said if rabbinical authorities propose a technological solution, &#8220;we will happily consider it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Western Wall, located in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City, is a retaining wall of the compound where the biblical temples stood 2,000 years ago.</p>
<p>Jews and tourists pray in front of the outdoor site and stick small prayer notes between the stones of the wall.</p>
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