Shas’s spiritual leader says Jewish law forbids voting for Ben-Gvir’s party. The dispute is not whether religious Jews care about Judaism’s holiest site, but what caring for it requires.

Temple Mount Sifting Project faces a backlog, with tons of debris still awaiting examination.

Hamas “wanted to win. We defeated them, first and foremost here on the Temple Mount,” Israel’s national security minister said.

Petition urges government to open Judaism’s holiest site on the first day of the holiday, which falls on Shabbat this year, and allow the shofar to be sounded there.

Allowing Jews to carry prayer books onto Judaism’s holiest site is not a provocation. The decades-long prohibition was the provocation.

Jerusalem says Arab and Muslim ministers are accusing Israel of violating religious freedom while denying the Jewish people’s most basic connection to their holiest site.

On Tisha B’Av, Jewish worship at Judaism’s holiest site exposed the absurdity of a decades-old arrangement that treated Jewish prayer as the problem.

National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf hails “revolution” that now permits Jews to finally pray at Judaism’s holiest site.

Freedom of worship near the Western Wall depends on a mix of older history and newer developments, both amid the ruckus of who believes what.