The status quo at the site has generally barred Jewish visitors from bringing religious items such as prayer books and tefillin.
Temple Mount
In 1925, the Supreme Muslim Council published a guide to the Temple Mount for tourists that said the site’s “identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”
Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir declares “victory” as record number of Jews visit Judaism’s holiest site.
The 7,500-plus visits during the month of Av, which precedes Elul, marked a 15% rise compared to the same period last year.
“Two thousand years after the minting of this coin, we come along a few days before Tisha B’Av and find such a moving testimony to that great destruction,” says archaeologist Esther Rakow-Mellet.
The nine suspects smuggled a live goat onto the Jerusalem holy site with the intent of performing a Passover sacrifice.
The truth of God’s warning that Jerusalem and the Temple Mount would be a stumbling block to the nations is today more evident than ever.
The chief rabbis of Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, and the mayor of Jerusalem attended the ceremony.
The Temple Mount and its stones remain sacred and must not be treated like museum artifacts, insists Israel’s Chief Rabbinate.
“Here, at the seat of His heavenly throne, Jews and Christians gather together to pray for the success of Donald Trump in his second term.”
