My grandfather, Shmuel HaCanan Weingarten, witnessed the following story: 

At the beginning of the events of 1938, on Shabbat, the phone rang in Rabbi Kook's home. Due to the emergency, Rabbi Kook picked up the phone. On the other end of the line was the British governor with a proposal to Rabbi Kook: she reached an agreement with the leaders of the Arab rioters that if the Jews gave up prayer at the Western Wall there would be no riots. Rabbi Kook vehemently rejected the proposal.

After a month, Rabbi Kook came to visit the electricity plant in Nahariya. He was greeted by Pinchas Rotenberg, the great entrepreneur, and Yitzhak Sadeh, who was the foreman there. Rabbi Kook told them about the governor's proposal that he rejected regarding the Western Wall. Pinchas Rotenberg responded: 'I am an absolute gentile and Yitzhak Sadeh 3/4 a gentile. We will stand with you in the struggle for the Western Wall not to say that it is a matter of a handful of religious.

Today - we too will stand firm against all those who threaten Jewish prayer. I wish they would continue to threaten until there was no choice but to eliminate them.

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