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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Police officers work the scene of a stabbing at the Temple Mount's Chain Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 16, 2025. (Israel Police)
May 17, 2025, 12:27 am
Police officer stabbed in Old City of Jerusalem, assailant shot dead
Attacker from East Jerusalem charged at cop near Temple Mount’s Chain Gate and stabbed him in the back, moderately wounding him, police and medics say
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Police brawl with Orthodox Jewish men trying to smuggle a sacrificial goat into the Temple Mount compound (left) and the baby goat concealed in a Rami Levy shopping bag on May 12, 2025. (Screenshot/Twitter)
May 12, 2025, 5:11 pm
Cops arrest 9 Jewish men for trying to smuggle sacrificial goat onto Temple Mount
Suspects nearly sneak baby goat in shopping bag into Jerusalem holy site for Second Passover sacrifice, but are foiled by police and Waqf officials who wrestle them back
By Charlie Summers
Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray outside the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City while attending the first Ramadan Friday noon prayer, on March 7, 2025, during Islam's fasting holy month. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
March 7, 2025, 6:19 pm
90,000 Muslim worshipers pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa on first Friday of Ramadan
Old City under heavy police presence with some 3,000 cops and border guards deployed in Jerusalem; Israel limits entry of West Bank Palestinians
By Charlie Summers
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2024. (Courtesy Otzma Yehudit)
December 26, 2024, 2:53 pm
Ben Gvir says he prayed on Temple Mount, PM quickly claims status quo hasn’t changed
Hamas calls for escalation of violence over national security minister’s visit to holy site, where Jews are banned from praying but lately have done so increasingly openly
By ToI Staff
Jewish worshipers prostrate themselves on the Temple Mount during a prayer service at the holy site, August 28, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
September 9, 2024, 9:03 am
Netanyahu tells ministers they can’t visit Temple Mount without his permission
PM insists status quo in place, despite far-right legislators encouraging new leniency on Jewish prayer at holy site; security heads warn issue could spike anti-Israel violence
By ToI Staff
Jewish worshipers prostrate themselves on the Temple Mount during a prayer service at the holy site, August 28, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
August 29, 2024, 8:04 pm
Open Jewish prayer, prostration on Temple Mount now ‘routine,’ activists say
In recent weeks police are no longer preventing or penalizing acts at holy site as Ben Gvir pushes practice, and are allowing them on a daily basis
By Jeremy Sharon
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, who is under investigation for incitement. (AP/Joao Silva)
June 27, 2024, 6:30 pm
Al-Aqsa imam indicted on charges of incitement to terrorism
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former mufti of Jerusalem, is accused of praising terror attacks in 2022 in which four Israelis were killed; he says charges are ‘fabricated’
By AFP
Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend Friday prayers during Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, March 29, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
April 11, 2024, 10:27 pm
Despite Hamas’s hopes and Biden’s fears, Ramadan didn’t spread Gaza war to Jerusalem
Officials say Palestinians weren’t interested in heeding Hamas call to rile up Al-Aqsa, where Ben Gvir was blocked from exerting influence and where Jordan played stabilizing role
By Jacob Magid
Thousands of worshipers attend the last Friday prayers of the Musliim holy month of Ramadan, at the Al Aqsa Mosque atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 5, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
April 5, 2024, 6:56 pm
120,000 Muslim worshipers pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa on final Friday of Ramadan
Day passes without major incidents despite heightened tensions over Gaza war, Iranian threats of revenge; 11 arrested for pro-Hamas chants, scuffles with police
By ToI Staff
Palestinians wait to cross into Jerusalem from the West Bank on their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount for the last Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Qalandia checkpoint, April 5, 2024. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
April 5, 2024, 12:23 pm
Palestinian killed in West Bank as police gird for final Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem
8 arrested at Temple Mount morning service over alleged incitement; in first during holy month, police drop tear gas from drone
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli police patrol while Muslim worshippers arrive for Friday Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, March 29, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 5, 2024, 5:51 am
Thousands of police to deploy in Jerusalem’s Old City for last Friday of Ramadan
Large numbers of cops to be on hand for afternoon prayers, Laylat al-Qadr; Iran and proxies to mark Quds Day, with ex-IDF intel chief warning Tehran may launch retaliatory attack
By ToI Staff
Thousands of Muslim worshipers attend Friday prayers during Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, March 29, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
March 29, 2024, 8:17 pm
For third straight week, Ramadan prayers at Temple Mount pass without incident
Waqf says 125,000 participated in al-Aqsa compound; Foreign Ministry places that number at just 50,000; police arrest 11 in Old City for alleged chants of incitement
By ToI Staff and AP
Muslim worshippers pray beneath the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Compound atop the Temple Mount on the second Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
March 22, 2024, 3:13 pm
120,000 Muslims worship at Al-Aqsa as 2nd Friday Ramadan prayers pass peacefully
Police deploy thousands of officers in Jerusalem’s Old City and around Temple Mount, say no ‘unusual disturbances,’ despite seeing attempts to incite violence on social media
By ToI Staff
Security forces guard Jewish visitors at the Temple Mount during Passover, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
March 18, 2024, 3:18 pm
Ben Gvir seeks to permit Jewish visits to Temple Mount on last 10 days of Ramadan
Non-Muslims usually barred from visiting highly sensitive holy site at culmination of Muslim holy month; security officials ‘discussing’ far-right minister’s request
By Jeremy Sharon
Muslim devotees offer first Friday noon prayers of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan against the backdrop of the Dome of the Rock at the compound of the Al-Aqsa mosque atop the TEmple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 15, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
March 15, 2024, 8:59 am
Tens of thousands peacefully attend 1st Friday prayers of Ramadan at Temple Mount
Police report no unusual incidents after Hamas urged worshipers to ‘defend Al-Aqsa’; Islamic Waqf estimates 80,000 people took part
By ToI Staff
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