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The volume of trade and services, where services re- fers mainly to Arabs from the territories working in Israel, also plunged by 20 per cent between 1987 and 1989. Last year, this figure reached $1.7 million, some 4.6 per cent of Israel's total trade in 1989, excluding defense imports. West Bank and Gaza Strip trade with Israel was some 6.6 per cent of the total in 1987. These figures clearly in- dicate a gradual severing of the two economies from one another, but also reflect their continuing integration. The dependence of the ter- ritories on Israel can be seen mainly in a desire by the in- habitants to continue work- ing in Israel despite the po- litical tension. In 1989, workers from the West Bank and Gaza Strip earned some $659 million in Israel — more than the $644 million they earned in both 1987 and 1988. Some 104,800 workers from the territories worked in Israel in 1989 —more than in the pre-intifada period of 1986-87, when the average was 103,300. Many of the Arabs counted as working in Israel in 1988-89, however, were absent for long periods due to curfews and riots. Israeli export of goods to the territories continued to plunge last year. Exports totalled $600 million, com- pared with $650 million in 1988 and $928 million in 1987 — a drop of one-third in two years. The import of goods from the territories dropped by the same ratio to $200 million in 1989. U.S. Jewish Women Ask To Pray At Western Wall Jerusalam (JPFS) — In what is apparently the first such move by Diaspora Jews, two American Jewish women are petitioning the High Court of Justice for the right to pray at the Western Wall. Representing the Interna- tional Committee for Wo- men of the Kotel, Susan Alter and Rivka Haut arriv- ed here last week to add their petition to that of the Jerusalem-based Women of the Wall, asking that the Re- ligious Affairs Ministry and the Chief Rabbinate allow them to pray with a Torah scroll at the Western Wall. The petition is to be sub- mitted in conjunction with the Women of the Wall, a group of local women who have for the past few years attempted to pray together at the Western Wall with a Torah scroll and with prayer shawls. In an interim judgement, the High Court ruled that the group could pray at the Wall, but that in line with the directives of the Religious Affairs Min- istry, they could not read from the Torah, wear prayer shawls or sing aloud there. Alter, a New York City councilwoman, said that to her knowledge Jews from abroad had never petitioned the High Court on a re- ligious issue. The women from abroad felt that they had a right to do so, she said, because the Wall was a sym- bol for the entire Jewish people. Stressing that she and her colleagues were seeking to act in a manner acceptable to Halacha, Alter said the women's groups based their action upon a ruling by the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, as well as an unpublished ruling by former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. For their continued guidance, they relied on Rabbi Avi Weiss of New York City.