President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall on Monday. And he did so by maintaining the strict gender boundaries that govern this historic and holy space.

The president, currently stopping in Israel and the West Bank during his first official trip abroad, visited the wall with Melania Trump , his wife, and his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner , who are both Orthodox Jews.

According to Haaretz , the family arrived at the site together but split up to visit different sections of the wall. Trump and Kushner visited the mens prayer plaza together, accompanied by the religious custodian of the site, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, and Mordechai Eliav, director-general of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. The president approached the wall wearing a yarmulke and touched the stones with his right hand before slipping a note into the cracks.