This incident is the latest in a series of apparent acts of desecration of the holy site by Muslims.

The current arrangement is anachronistic, discriminatory and contradicts today’s international norms.

While the century-old struggle is mostly cast as a conflict over land, the Biblical viewpoint discloses something deeper: That it is a battle over whose god is truly God – YHWH of Israel or Allah of Arabia?

Conditions are ripe, on the eve of a Temple-centred Jewish commemorative day, for an eruption of violence from Islamist terrorist groups, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad

“Fighting for equal rights and access for Jews on the Temple Mount is the most fundamental movement for the Jewish people today.”

A journalist’s visit to Mecca was wrong and may set back Israeli-Saudi normalization. But analogizing this stunt to Jews visiting or praying on the Temple Mount is equally offensive.

Out of view, and for many Christian visitors completely out of mind, lies the most significant site in all the Land of Israel; indeed, in all the world. It is the geographical core of everything redemptive God is working to accomplish on the earth: a small, limestone hillock that is The Mountain of the Lord.

Chief Rabbi slams religious right-wing leader for “troublesome” Temple Mount visits, as reports suggest young religious voters quitting Orthodox parties

Secret documents released by the Israeli archives expose the real “status quo” instituted in 1967.