Jewish couple gets married on Temple Mount

A video emerges of what appears to be a Jewish couple’s wedding on the Temple Mount last week.

The Hebrew-language Ynet website, citing one of the participants, reports there were 13 people in the wedding party, one of whom distracted the attention of police and Waqf officials while the brief ceremony was held last week.

MK Zehava Galon of the left-wing Meretz party, in a post to her Facebook page, seethes at the Temple Institute — which organized the wedding — for what she describes as threatening the delicate status quo at the Temple Mount.

“Not only did the people of the Temple Institute decide to thumb their noses at the delicate understandings on the Temple Mount, they also decided to do it right in our faces,” she writes. “I don’t know if the government thinks that our blood is worthless, or that the lives of Israeli citizens is less important than a quarrel with a loony group that wants to set up the Third Temple and, along the way, change the conflict from a nationalistic conflict to a religious conflict.”

“The time has really come for the prime minister to decide what he wants: quiet on the streets or to continue to transfer hundreds of thousands [of shekels] to organizations that push for building a third temple and a third world war.”

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