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US / The Temple Mount

White House Supports Jordan’s Position on the Temple Mount

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

President Biden stressed America’s support for a two-state solution to the current conflict.

Headline / Government / The Temple Mount / Jordan

PM Bennett Denies Reports Israel Agreed to Waqf Demands on Temple Mount

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Six Hamas-backed Waqf guards were removed from the Temple Mount, and 12 new Waqf positions were manned, “all within the existing standards, without any increase,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated.

Police and Crime / Islamists / The Temple Mount

Jews Assaulted on Temple Mount After Singing Hatikvah

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

One of the members of the group who was pushed and hit in the face by the Waqf man filed a complaint with the police.

Police and Crime / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

Waqf Member Assaults Israeli Policeman Who Wished Him a Good Morning

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

It first began when a Waqf-employed guard, interfered with an arrest on the Temple Mount and threatened police officers even after it was made clear to him that he was interfering with their work.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount

Exclusive: Jordanian Government Once Removed Graves from Jerusalem Area Currently Being Developed as a Park

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

In recent years, some residents of the Old City have been known to bury their dead sometimes in the Yosefia compound, which has become an illegal cemetery.

Video of the Day

Tom Nisani's Message to the Emirates from the Temple Mount

By Video of the Day

Speaking in Arabic, Nisani called on the Emiratis to help expel the Waqf from the Temple Mount.

The Temple Mount / Archaeology

Waqf Cements Over Ancient Mysterious Pit Discovered on Temple Mount

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The Waqf which has destroyed Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount covered up the hole with cement.

Headline / Police and Crime / Islamists / The Temple Mount

Temple Mount Group Calls on Visitors to File Police Complaints Against Waqf

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Returning to the Mountain" hopes that if enough people file complaints the Waqf can be deterred.

Headline / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Druze / Islamists / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

US Proposal to Remove Temple Mount Metal Detectors Being Considered

By Jewish Press News Desk

It is not yet known if Netanyahu has agreed to capitulate to the Islamic threats of violence.

Headline / IDF & Security / Jewish / Islamists / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religion

Jews Return to Temple Mount - Status Quo No More

By Jewish Press News Desk

Waqf officials refuse to go onto the Temple Mount... already a change for the better.

Headline / Terrorism / Druze / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

Calculated Risk Proves Israel Can Change the Temple Mount Status Quo

By Jewish Press News Desk

There were no Muslim riots or protests in Israel in response to the closure of the Temple Mount and Old City of Jerusalem.

Headline / IDF & Security / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Islamists / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religion

Watch: Yishai Fleisher, 11 Minutes of Tension on Temple Mount

By JNi.Media

Our friend Yishai Fleisher was on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, Jerusalem Day, to experience and describe first hand the clashes.

News Briefs / Photo of the Day / The Temple Mount

(No) Crying on the Temple Mount

By Photo of the Day

The young man was arrested for crying while on the Temple Mount.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Temple Mount

Waqf Engineer Distanced from Temple Mount

By Jewish Press News Desk

A building engineer working for the Islamic Waqf was brought in for questioning by the police today. The engineer was questioned in connection to construction and and maintenance activities he was undertaking that violated the antiquities law on the Temple Mount. According to the police, the man was setting up to do work near the […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Archaeology

Islamic Guards Attack Archaeologists on Temple Mount “for Picking Up Olives”

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Six Israeli archaeologists visiting the Temple Mount compound were attacked by employees of the Jordanian Waqf.

News Briefs / The Temple Mount

American Jew Arrested for Murmuring Prayers, 2nd Warned to Close Prayer App

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prime Minister Netanyahu can relax, his Temple Mount status quo has been upheld.

Travel / The Temple Mount

Temple Mount Visits Down in 2015

By Shalom Bear

Islamic harassment and police restrictions have significantly reduced the number of visitors to the Temple Mount in 2015.

News Briefs / The Temple Mount

Two Arrested for Temple Mount Prayers

By Jewish Press News Desk

One of the arrested men was praying for a sick person to get well.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Intifada

Arab Women Came to Patriarchs' Cave to 'Free Palestine' with Knives

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Police foiled knife attacks by two female terrorists. An official of the Muslim Waqf was with them and was detained by Border Police.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Islamists / The Temple Mount

Netanyahu Commits to Maintaining Temple Mount Status Quo, Praises Jordanian Waqf

By JNi.Media

Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday said that Israel and Jordan have agreed to take steps to reduce tensions on the Temple Mount.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

Arabs Attack Police on Temple Mount

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Arabs armed themselves with weapons inside the mosque before the clash.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Temple Mount

Arrests on Temple Mount: Jewish Boy for Wearing Tzitzit, Jewish Man for Singing to Groom

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Islamic Waqf reportedly threatens a "disturbance" at the Temple Mount over Jewish clothing.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Temple Mount

Saying Shema Yisrael on the Temple Mount

By Jewish Press News Desk

This is what happens to a Jew if he dares pray "Shema Yisrael", one of the Jewish People's oldest and most central prayers, if he is on the Temple Mount...

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism

Illegal for Jews to Yell ‘Allahu Akbar’ at the Temple Mount

By Rachel Levy

Israel has a double standard for law enforcement when it’s Jews who are yelling “Allahu Akbar” in Jerusalem.

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religion

Police Allow Muslim Officials to Damage Holy Floor of Temple Mount Rock

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The rock under the mosaic floor that was damaged is the foundation where the two Holy Temples stood.

First Person

Humiliated on the Temple Mount

By Rabbi Alan Haber

Told to conceal Jewish symbols- kippa/tzitzit-I despaired having to hide my Jewishness in Jerusalem

Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Judaism

PLO Campaigns to Wipe ‘Temple Mount’ Off the Media Map

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Ramallah is encouraged by Obama’s implicit policy that Jews in eastern Jerusalem are “illegitimate.”

Police and Crime / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

Police Arrest Temple Mount Waqf Guard and Jewish Man

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Tuesday morning, Israeli police arrested a Waqf guard on the Temple Mount for allegedly attacking and threatening a policeman.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount

Waqf Representatives Harassing Jews on the Temple Mount (Video)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount found themselves harassed by Waqf officials, and police were unable to protect them.

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / Religion

Police Detain Four Jews for ‘Bowing in Prayer at Temple Mount

By JTA

Four Israeli Jewish teenagers were detained by police Wednesday for bowing down at the Temple Mount, an act that seen as a prayer and which is prohibited by the Muslim Waqf, the Muslim religious administration that is authorized by Israel to manage the holy site. A rabbi also visiting the site told Israel National News […]

Fresno Zionism

Prisoners Have Great Ideological and Religious Value

By Vic Rosenthal

From the standpoint of the Islamist Hamas, the actions of the prisoners constitute defensive jihad against Jews usurping land which is an Islamic waqf.

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Islamists / Jerusalem / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Jordan Moves to Scrap Peace Treaty over Arrest of Jerusalem Mufti

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

World War III may have been close and may have been prevented on the Temple Mount, where the Jerusalem Mufti was arrested and then released for throwing chairs at Jews on Jerusalem Unification Day.

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religion / Israeli Arabs

MK to Visit Temple Mount to Find Out Why Jews Barred from Praying

By Jewish Press News Desk

Likud Knesset Member Miri Regev announced Wednesday she will visit the Temple Mount to try to understand the problem with Jews praying at the holy site. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf officially controls the Temple Mount, a power granted to it by the Israeli government shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967. MK Regev, who chairs […]

Eye on "Palestine" / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Archaeology

Arabs Ignoring High Court Ruling, Dumping Artifacts off Temple Mount

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The Waqf, a Jordanian Muslim religious body entrusted with the management of the Temple Mount, has been renovating the site for years.

Fresno Zionism

Jewish History and Sovereignty Slipping Away

By Vic Rosenthal

This is one of those issues that ought to be shocking, but about which nothing is done. For years — I’ve written about this before — the Muslim waqf that controls the Temple Mount has been systematically destroying archaeological artifacts of Jewish provenance at the site.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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