First International Jewish Feminist Conference in Jerusalem. One hundred Jewish women gather for prayer service and Torah reading at the Kotel. Service is disrupted by verbal and physical assaults from some ultra-orthodox men and women at the site. A group of Jerusalem women continue regular prayer services at the Kotel. Violent attacks from ultra-orthodox opponents continue.
Police refuse to provide protection.
After prayers at the Wall end with police using tear gas to contain harassment, four women submit a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court, asking for an order to allow May 1989 Israel's Supreme Court hears the case of Women of the Wall for the first time. The state is given six months to respond to WOW's petition. The Court issues a temporary injunction barring women from praying at the Kotel with Torah and tallit. June 1989 Women continue to pray at the Kotel without Torah or tallit. Following further violence and harassment by female security guards hired by the Administrator of the Kotel, WOW return to Court to request a speedier response from the state and protection of the right to pray out loud.