Faithful banned from holy site 'for activating automatic cameras'

Jerusalem'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.

Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, a 100-year-old rabbinical authority widely revered among ultra-Orthodox Jews, said the trouble at Judaism's holiest prayer site is with the technology.