Opposition leader Yair Lapid attacked the Western Wall law promoted by the Shas party.

"This legislation says one thing - the Western Wall no longer belongs to everyone," he said, adding: "The extremist government continues to tear the people of Israel apart. They will not tell us who is more or less Jewish."

"If this legislation passes, Israel is no longer a free country. Instead of a symbol of unity, the Western Wall will become a symbol of women's oppression, secular discrimination, the dissolution of our alliance with world Jewry," he warned.