Anger as abbot told to hide his cross on visit to Western Wall with German minister – Nikodemus Schnabel protests after being told his attire is ‘inappropriate’; state-run Heritage Foundation apologizes for ‘distress caused’ but defends request | Timesofisrael

A Christian abbot was asked Wednesday by an official at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to hide his cross while accompanying Germany’s education minister to the holy site, drawing censure and an apology in the latest incident of Jewish-Christian tensions in the capital’s Old City.
The incident, which took place outside the prayer area of the Jewish holy site, was filmed and posted online by a reporter for German news outlet Der Spiegel.
Nikodemus Schnabel, the abbot of the Old City’s Dormition Abbey, was stopped by a woman who was said to be an employee of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the Haredi-dominated state-run body that administers the site.