UK Jews ‘will be lining streets’ on coronation day, says chief rabbi

Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and his wife will stay at St James’s Palace the night before the coronation so they can walk to Westminster Abbey. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

Observant Jews will be unable to watch the king’s coronation on television because it falls on the Jewish sabbath when the use of electricity is prohibited, but “there will be many lining the streets” of central London, Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi, has said.

However, they will have to walk to join the crowds as vehicular travel is also banned on Shabbat.