Israeli Tour Guide Asks German-Christian Abbot to Remove Cross

When German Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger yesterday (July 19h) was on a visit to Jerusalem's Buraq Wall with the German Catholic abbot of Old Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey Nikodemus Schnabel, the pair was stopped by an Israeli employee of the 'Western Wall Heritage Foundation'. The Israeli employee spoke to the abbot in English and said that while the site is open to people of all religions, his cross was "really big and inappropriate for this place". She said that he needed to "respect this place", and asked the abbot to "please put it inside".