Otzma Yehudit party leader Itamar Ben Gvir welcomes the visit and open prayer at the Temple Mount by Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot this morning, again taking credit for leading a change in the status quo at the flashpoint holy site allowing Jews to pray there.
“I’m happy to see that also MK Zvi Sukkot, like many thousands, is prostrating himself and praying at the Temple Mount,” Ben Gvir says. “What wasn’t done for 30 years is being done on my watch, and I’m happy to have the honor, by the grace of God, to lead this huge change.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly denied there has been a change in the status quo, despite evidence to the contrary.
Thousands of observant Jews have visited the site this week to mark the festival of Passover.
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