Some 2,600 Jews ascended the Temple Mount this week during the intermediary days of the Passover holiday, according to data from the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and the Students for the Temple Mount organization.
2600 יהודים עלו להר הבית בימי החג. כך עולה מנתוני הקרן למורשת הר הבית וסטודנטים למען הר הבית. הירדנים מוחים על מספר כזה של כניסת יהודים להר הבית ושיגרו לישראל איגרת בה התלוננו על הפרות של הסטטוס קוו בהר. האיגרת הועברה ע"י שגרירות ירדן בישראל למשרד החוץ בירושלים pic.twitter.com/dHJPGTxUkx
— גלעד כהן | Gilad Cohen (@GiladCohenJR)
On each day of the Passover week, the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation arranged special tour guides to accompany visitors and provide expanded information about the site. There were so many people signed up to hear Israeli scholar and Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar that the Foundation was forced to add a second tour on Thursday.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan complained bitterly to the Israeli government that too many Jews were allowed into the site.
“The Jordanians are protesting the high number of Jews who entered the Temple Mount compound and have sent a letter to Israel about the ‘violations of the status quo’ on the site,” reported Gilad Cohen, a Hebrew-language journalist writing for Ynet.
The letter of complaint was transferred from Jordan’s Embassy in Israel to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.