<p class="content-excerpt">'The change that UTJ is demanding is nothing short of a revolution and threatens Israel’s democratic nature'</p> <div class="components"> <p>Israel's ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party has reportedly demanded during coalition negotiations with prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu that all mixed-gender prayer be forbidden at the Western Wall.</p> <p><em>Army Radio</em>&nbsp;reported on Thursday that the party wants to enact "significant measures of deterrence" to prevent people from "desecrating the holy place" – meaning praying "according to the custom of the Chief Rabbinate."&nbsp;</p> <div class="taboola-wrapper"> <div class=" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_ab_mid-article-thumbnails_abp-mode "></div> </div> <p>The law would bar groups such as Women of the Wall from praying at the holy Jewish site, including in&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1667759089-israel-kotel-s-egalitarian-section-to-see-security-boost" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1667759089-israel-kotel-s-egalitarian-section-to-see-security-boost" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/society/1667759089-israel-kotel-s-egalitarian-section-to-see-security-boost">the egalitarian section</a>, as the law does not consider the area to be an officially separated space.</p> </div>