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Fast Forward The First Medic To Respond To Temple Mount Attack Was Muslim
JERUSALEM (JTA) – When Nedal Sader first heard the crackle of automatic weapon fire Friday morning, he couldn’t believe it was coming from the Temple Mount. As a Muslim, he regarded the complex just outside his apartment as a sacred and peaceful place. He prayed there nearly every week. But as a seasoned first responder,…
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Fast Forward Knesset Committee Approves Bill Requiring Supermajority To Divide Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Knesset committee has approved a bill that would make it difficult to divide Jerusalem in a peace deal. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved an amendment to an existing Basic Law that would require a majority of at least 80 Knesset members to pass a decision to give up land in…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Partially Reopens Two Days After Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Temple Mount partially reopened on Sunday, with metal detectors places at the open entrances, two days after three Arab-Israeli visitors to the site opened fire on Israel Police guarding the area, killing two Druze-Arab officers. Few Muslim worshippers entered the site on Sunday in protest of the metal detectors, according to…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Police Officers Killed In Jerusalem Terror Ambush
(JTA) — Two police officers were killed an another one was injured by Arab gunmen who opened fire on security forces in Jerusalem’s Old City. At least three armed terrorists were killed in a gunfight with security forces during the incident Friday at the Lions’ Gate, which is situated directly northeast of the Temple Mount…
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Fast Forward These U.S. Jews Are Looking Beyond The Kotel – To Prayer On The Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Liberal American Jews are feeling thwarted in their years-long campaign for the right to pray as they wish at the Western Wall. Long frustrated that the plaza in front of the wall is run as an Orthodox synagogue, they were doubly incensed when Israel’s political establishment scrapped an agreement that would have boosted access to…
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Opinion The Israeli Right Is Terrified of Peace — And Their Jerusalem Bill Proves It
The man who heads the right flank of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli governing coalition, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, issued on Sunday what amounts to an extraordinary public acknowledgment: that a peace agreement with the Palestinians is possible — and indeed that negotiators had come within “a hair’s breadth” of concluding an agreement several…
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Community Controversial Art Museum In Jerusalem Battles To Survive
Located on the very edge of West Jerusalem, Museum On The Seam has been committed to presenting thought-provoking art about Israel’s complex socio-political reality since opening in 1999. Soon, the small museum with lofty aims may be forced to shutter its doors — the museum’s main backers have announced they will stop funding the institution….
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Fast Forward Hundreds In Jerusalem Protest Bills Bashing Liberal Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem to protest government moves seen as targeting liberal streams of Judaism. The protesters who gathered in Jerusalem on Saturday night carried signs including “Judaism without coercion,” and “We are all Women of the Wall.” The demonstration was organized by…
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