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Opinion Who’s to Blame for Temple Mount Violence?
Once again Israel faces a deadly spiral of Palestinian violence, as the low-level rioting that began in East Jerusalem in July, following the murder of teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir by a trio of Jewish hoodlums, gave way in late October to a series of lethal attacks with knives, guns and motor vehicles. And once again,…
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Breaking News Yehuda Glick Breathing On Own After Shooting
Yehuda Glick, the Temple Mount activist shot in a failed assassination attempt, is communicating and breathing on his own. Glick until Tuesday had been on a respirator at Shaarey Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem since the Oct. 29 attack outside a city conference center. The speaker of Israel’s Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, wrote Tuesday afternoon in…
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Breaking News Sephardic Chief Rabbi Forbids Israelis From Going to Temple Mount
An Israeli chief rabbi urged Jews to stay away from the Temple Mount to prevent bloodshed. Yitzhak Yosef, Israel’s chief Sehardic rabbi, made the call during the funeral Friday of Shalom Ba’adani, 17 who died that morning in hospital from wounds he sustained on Wednesday when a Palestinian terrorist hit him and 12 others with…
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Breaking News Right-Wingers Blocked From Temple Mount March
Police prevented dozens of protesting right-wing activists from ascending to the Temple Mount. The activists on Thursday night were protesting the security situation in Jerusalem and the shooting last week of Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick. The demonstrators marched from the Begin Center in Jerusalem, the site of the assassination attempt on Glick, to the…
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Breaking News Yehuda Glick’s Brother Calls Wounded Temple Mount Activist ‘Man of Peace’
(JTA) — Yitzhak Glick cannot stand hearing his younger brother referred to as a right-wing “extremist.” “He is a man of peace and a huge supporter of religious dialogue,” he told JTA on Tuesday, one week after his brother Yehuda was shot in the chest and stomach outside Jerusalem’s Menachem Begin Center by an assailant…
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Breaking News Jordan Recalls Israel Envoy Amid Spiralling Conflict in Jerusalem
Jordan on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest against what it described as Israeli “violations” in Jerusalem and its holy sites, the Jordanian state news agency reported. The decision was taken “in protest at the increasing and unprecedented Israeli escalation in the Noble Sanctuary, and the repeated Israeli violations of Jerusalem,” the news…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Meets Jordan King Abdullah Over Temple Mount
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah II reportedly met secretly to discuss tension in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount. The meeting took place Saturday in Amman, the Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily Al-Jarida reported Monday citing “well-informed sources.” The two sides pledged to work together to ease the tensions in Jerusalem and the…
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Breaking News Far-Right Israeli Politician Visits Temple Mount, Defying Benjamin Netanyahu
A far-right politician who wants Jews to be allowed to pray at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa compound visited the site on Sunday, defying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for restraint after clashes this week between Israeli police and Palestinians. Sunday was the first day the compound, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple…
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