The Center? Is he nuts?!

Ynet carries a report I saw earlier in Hebrew this week that Israel's cabinet to approve Western Wall renovation

The plan is intended to encourage visitation and bar mitzvah ceremonies at Western Wall and is valued at NIS 68 million. The complex will undergo a series of renovations and a number of projects will be established, including a modern visitors' center, a new police station, information center and new entrance to the site.

The government will also encourage holding bar and bat mitzvahs at the Wall and within two months, the government-run Western Wall Heritage Foundation is set to launch a media campaign encouraging citizens to celebrate at the wall.

The plan was developed after research showed that very few Israeli children celebrate their bar mitzvahs at the Wall, as their families do not known how to go about organizing such an event.

Jerusalem's Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz praised the Prime Minister's Office's decision to allocate a budget for the development of a number of services at the complex, in a bid to encourage visitation to the holy site.

And here is what got me peeved:

"The Western Wall is the Jewish nation's spiritual center," he said.
"Without a connection to the past it will be very difficult to march into the future."

Sorry, Rabbi. The Temple Mount is our spiritual center. And it is too bad that not one New Shekel was or will be allotted to improving the Jewish presence, either past, present or future, at, on, under or in the Temple Mount.