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| July 5, 2012
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Scaffolding on Foundation Stone prompts police complaint

Dome of the Rock renovations see Waqf place scaffolding direction on Foundation Stone – Judaism’s holiest spot. Temple Mount activists appealed to police to ‘stop desecration’

By Kobi Nahshoni

 

A group of Temple Mount activist movements appealed over the weekend to Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino to take immediate action to stop the desecration of the “Holiest of Holies” on the Temple Mount by the Muslim Waqf.

According to activists, the body responsible for the site and charged with carrying out renovations to the Temple Mount chose to erect scaffolding directly on the Foundation Stone (Even Shtiya) – the holiest place for Jews, and which Muslims also honor. Continue Reading »

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| July 1, 2012
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Second Temple-era mikveh discovered under Al-Aqsa mosque

Al-Aqsa mosque was destroyed in an earthquake in 1927 • As it was being rebuilt, the British archaeologist Robert Hamilton documented the excavation of its foundations • He hid away the findings that the waqf found inconvenient • Today, thousands of findings, including a seal with the inscription “From Gibeon to the king” unearthed by Dr. Gabi Barkai and Zachi Dvira, shed light on the Temple Mount’s Jewish period • A peek back into history.

By Nadav Shragai

 

 

In 1927, an earthquake struck Jerusalem, killing 130 people, wounding 450 and destroying or heavily damaging about 300 buildings, including Al-Aqsa mosque.

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| June 21, 2012
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Jewish Visitor to Temple Mount Told to Remove Kippah

“I have experienced anti-Semitism in England, but I never expected it at Judaism’s holiest site,” the visitor stated.

By INN Staff

 

 

During a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, a Jewish student was told by Islamic Waqf officials to take off his kippah. The 20-year-old from London, England, was in Israel as part of a student mission. He said he was told by three separate Waqf monitors to take off the Jewish head-covering because it was offensive to them.

The student told Israeli media, “I have experienced anti-Semitism in England, but I never thought that in Judaism’s holiest site I would be subjugated to such discrimination.” Continue Reading »

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| May 25, 2012
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Guardian Downplays Jewish Connection To Temple Mount

The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent’s whitewashing of the significance of the Temple Mount to Jews echoes some of the worst propaganda by Palestinians seeking to discredit the notion that Jews have any historical ties to the area.

Jerusalem, as any bog-standard tourist guide will tell you, is revered as holy by adherents of three major faiths – Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Visitors to Israel’s capital are often struck by the sheer religiosity of the place, with the city looming so large in the collective consciousness that some people even come down with ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ (note: a recognised medical condition) and believe themselves to be the reincarnation of some Biblical figure or other. Continue Reading »

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| May 6, 2012
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Police Ban Jews from Temple Mount March on Tisha B’Av

The Women in Green have asked the High Court to cancel a police ban on Jews praying in a Tisha B’Av march near the Temple Mount.

 

The nationalist Women in Green organization has asked the High Court to cancel a police ban on Jews praying in a Tisha B’Av prayer march near the Temple Mount.

Prayer March around Temple Mount gates

Prayer March around Temple Mount gates - Israel news photo: Yisrael Maimon

Women in Green leaders Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar filed a petition to allow the march, which usually attracts thousands of worshippers and has been allowed for 18 years.

The police prohibited the march this year because of concerns of outbreaks of violence as a result of the date falling this year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when tens of thousands Muslims swarm on to the Temple Mount. Continue Reading »

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| May 3, 2012
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Police Block March to Temple Mount

Jerusalem police have ruled that activists cannot hold a march to the Temple Mount this Sunday.

Some 200 right-wing activists allegedly planned to lead approximately 20 sheep to Judaism’s holiest site.

The march, beginning at Jerusalem’s central bus station and culminating in the Old City of Jerusalem, was to be held in protest over the lack of permission to allow ritual offerings on the Temple Mount.

Police explained that such a march could disturb the peace and cause public disruptions. They plan to deploy along the proposed route on Sunday to prevent the march from reaching the Old City, a spokesperson said. Continue Reading »

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| March 6, 2012
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Chief Rabbis: Don’t Ascend Temple Mount

Chief Rabbis Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Rabbi Yonah Metzger joined by other top rabbis in proclaiming Mount off grounds.

Chief Sephardic Rabbi (Rav) Rabbi Shlomo Amar has published a call to believers not to ascend to the Temple Mount. The call appears under the heading “avoid ascending to the Mount and touching its edge,” which is attributed to Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk.

Rav Amar’s declaration was co-signed by former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Rav Eliyahu Bakshi Doron; Rav Shalom Cohen, Head of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in the Old City of Jerusalem’ Old City Rabbi Rav Avigdor Neventzal, and Kotel Rabbi, Rav Shmuel Rabinovich. Continue Reading »

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