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Israel News Yehuda Glick, Temple Provocateur and Knesset Member, Renounces Trump
After the Friday night release of an audio tape in which Donald Trump bragged about committing sexual assault, Republican leaders abandoned their presidential nominee in droves. That trend extended across the ocean, with Yehuda Glick, a former American citizen and Likud member of the Knesset, renouncing his support for the party’s standard bearer. “Mr. Trump,…
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Fast Forward Jordan King Blasts Jewish Extremist Push on Temple Mount
Jordan’s King Abdullah II vowed to fight against “repeated violations and attacks carried out by Israel and extremist groups.” The king accused Israel of attempting to “violate the sanctity and compromise Al-Aqsa mosque,” and added, “Our responsibility towards the Muslim holy places in Jerusalem is our top priority in the international arena, and we use…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Planned to Blow Up Light Rail in Retaliation for Temple Mount Visits
A Palestinian man caught earlier this month trying to board the Jerusalem Light Rail with a bag full of pipe bombs planned to detonate them in retaliation for Jewish visits to the Temple Mount. Ali Abu Hassan, 21, a civil engineering student at the Polytechnic University in Hebron, made the bombs himself. The bombs included…
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Israel News The Bible Is Their Textbook: Jerusalem Group Trains Priests for Third Temple
A Jerusalem group plans to open the first school of its kind to train priests to serve in a third Jewish temple, which they hope to see erected on Jerusalem’s most contested holy site. The Temple Institute’s priest training program is the group’s latest effort to prepare for and hasten the creation of a third…
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Fast Forward Slain 13-year-old Israeli Girl Mourned on Temple Mount
JERUSALEM — At least 50 people ascended the Temple Mount for a memorial with the family of slain West Bank teen Hallel Yaffa Ariel. It was the largest group of Jews permitted to visit the Temple Mount in the past year, according to Haaretz. About 200 supporters gathered afterward at the Western Wall plaza to…
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Israel News One Person Isn’t Buying Yehuda Glick’s Temple Mount Crusade — His Mom
Israel’s newest Knesset member, Yehuda Glick, is on a mission to bring Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. But he hasn’t won over one person — his own mother. Unlike her son, Brenda Glick’s husband, Shimon Glick, defers to the mainstream rabbis who see ascension to the Temple Mount as religiously risky because of…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Clash on Temple Mount for Second Day
JERUSALEM — Muslim rioters and Israel police clashed for a second day on the Temple Mount. The Muslim worshippers threw rocks, stones and firecrackers at police officers on the Temple Mount on Monday. The rioters had been stockpiling the weapons in the Al-Aksa Mosque and had barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, according to reports….
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Israel News Yehuda Glick Brings Extreme Vision of Temple Mount to the Knesset — With an Affable Touch
On May 24, Israel’s parliament welcomed its first-ever member to survive an assassination attempt before he even stepped foot into office. Yehuda Glick was shot and wounded for his leading role in groups devoted to rebuilding the Jewish Holy Temple in Jerusalem at a sensitive site sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians worldwide. In a…
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