Under the longstanding status quo, the Jordanian Waqf administers the Temple Mount’s internal religious affairs, while Israel controls access and external security.
Internet personality Yishai Fleisher went up to the Temple Mount on the first day of Ramadan, just weeks ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, offering an inside look at Judaism’s holiest site, where the group prayed and sang to God.
By allowing radical groups and Iranian-backed proxies to weaponize the Al-Aqsa Mosque as a staging ground for jihadi optics, Israel inadvertently signaled that its sovereignty was negotiable.
The mikvah is rectangular in shape, measuring just over three meters in length (about 9.8 feet), with plastered walls and four carefully carved steps leading down into the bath.
During the festival of Chanukah, archaeologists uncovered an exceptionally rare 1,300-year-old lead pendant engraved with a seven-branched menorah beneath the Temple Mount.
On Monday, the Palestinian Authority condemned attempts by Jewish activist groups to sound the shofar on the Temple Mount, calling the ram’s horn a 'dangerous tool.'
Despite any UNESCO resolutions or Muslim claims undermining the profound Jewish ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, the Jewish people WILL win this struggle!
As we pray at the Western Wall and gaze up at the Temple Mount, we cannot help but wonder why there is no Holy Temple today. Does it have anything to do with the slanderous report of the spies in the times of Moses?
Israeli rights activist Michael Puah told the news site that he was able to wear tefillin (phylacteries), in defiance of the ban on Jewish prayer on the Mount.
The annual fast day commemorates tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, with a focus on the destruction of the First and Second Temples that stood on the Mount.
'Whoever thinks that committing illegal acts under the cover of the holiday gives him immunity from the law is very wrong,' says Jerusalem police chief.
According to reports, Oman's Foreign Ministry is working with both Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to organize a visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
'Settlement of the Al Aqsa issue is a key condition for the establishment of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia,' says journalist during conference in Jerusalem.
Instead of providing a balanced and nuanced piece of journalism, this New York Times report is full of misleading statements and claims that reek of an anti-Israel bias.