Feud over ‘antisemitic’ Wailing Wall painting closes Israel museum

Exhibited artists cover up their work in protest after piece portraying ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is removedFour overlapping black and white rectangles make up Israeli artist David Reeb’s painting Jerusalem. On two, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is portrayed praying at the Western Wall – known also as the Wailing Wall – from two different angles, his hands pressed against the stone. Opposite the images, thick brushstrokes spell out phrases in Hebrew: “Jerusalem of gold&rdq