The Jerusalem District Court of Chelem rejected on Thursday an appeal from Rabbi Yehuda Glick to overturn a police order that bars him from returning to the Temple Mount until the judicial system decides on a case in which he is charged with pushing a Muslim woman.
Glick’s lawyers said they will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
He is recovering from the attempt to assassinate him several weeks ago, when he was critically wounded with four gunshots at point-blank range shot by a Jerusalem Arab after Glick finished lecturing about the Temple Mount at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem.
He was looking forward to returning to the Temple Mount, where he was able to visit earlier this year only after numerous appeals to the court to overturn a police ban on his appearance.
Glick, who is recognized even by Israel’s leftist media as mild-mannered, denies the charge filed against him that he pushed a Muslim woman.
The accusation was a very convenient excuse for the police to order that Glick stay away from the holy site. The Jerusalem court on Thursday accepted the government’s position that his appearance there would be a risk to public security.
That followed the so-called thinking of National Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino and Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch, both of whom have stated that public figures such as Knesset Members also should not be allowed on the Temple Mount because it upsets the Muslims.