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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Dome of the Rock

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
Painter Lotta Camilla Teale at work on a piece for 'Jerusalem: An Exhibition,' marking a year of living in the city (Courtesy Lotta Camilla Teale)
June 9, 2023, 12:25 pm
Artist marks year in Israel with oils of local life and landmarks
Lotta Camilla Teale brings a dreamy, meditative feel to paintings of Jerusalem’s stone walls and flowering paths
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the new golden dome built on top of the Abdul Rachman mosque in Beit Safafa, Jerusalem, December 16, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 15, 2022, 9:11 am
After right-wing pressure, J’lem orders demolition of ‘illegal’ new gold dome mosque
Municipality says construction was without permits; Beit Safafa community leader says will work to ensure it stands; nonprofit decries move as city hall ‘succumbing to extremists’
By ToI Staff
The Abdul Rachman mosque in Beit Safafa, Jerusalem. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 6, 2021, 4:36 pm
A new, second golden dome graces Jerusalem’s skyline
While the iconic Dome of the Rock is lined with real gold, Al-Rahman Mosque in Beit Safafa has only been painted to look like the real thing
By Sue Surkes
A young man wearing a protective mask as a measure of protection against the coronavirus COVID-19, walks in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine inside the al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 13, 2020. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)
March 15, 2020, 5:22 pm
Palestinians close Al-Aqsa Mosque, Dome of the Rock over coronavirus fears
Prayers to take place outdoors in compound, Muslim officials say; at nearby Western Wall, indoor gatherings restricted to 10 people
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian Muslim worshipers walk past the Dome of the Rock mosque, situated in the al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, March 1, 2019, before Friday noon prayers. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
June 14, 2019, 8:33 pm
Jerusalem municipality removed Dome of Rock from backdrop to Netanyahu speech
According to report, mural depicting landmarks on Temple Mount and Old City removes the iconic golden dome from its base
By ToI Staff
Muslim worshipers square off with police outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, January 14, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
January 14, 2019, 6:13 pm
Palestinians, Israeli police scuffle on Temple Mount over a yarmulke
Spokesman for Islamic authority overseeing holy site says Jewish guard refused to remove head covering before entering Dome of Rock for routine check
By AP and ToI Staff
Archaeologist Zachi Dvira on the Temple Mount, June 18, 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
June 22, 2018, 2:58 pm
Muslim cleanup project ‘illegally disturbed, removed’ ancient soil on Temple Mt
Ramadan ‘beautification’ effort was deliberately provocative, part of bid to erase traces of pre-Muslim era heritage, claims activist-archaeologist; Israeli authorities checking
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, interviewed on Hadashot TV in his Jerusalem embassy office, May 23, 2018 (Hadashot Screenshot)
May 23, 2018, 9:52 pm
‘We are an honest broker,’ says US envoy to Israel from his new Jerusalem office
America wants a better future for the Palestinians, Friedman says. If they don’t even come to the table, ‘I can’t imagine that would be well received in the White House’
By ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is pictured next to a man holding a poster of the Jewish Temple replacing the Muslim Dome on the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, at an event for the Achiya educational nonprofit in Bnei Brak, May 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Kikar HaShabbat)
May 23, 2018, 7:29 pm
US ambassador ‘more mortified than any Palestinian’ over Temple photo
Friedman says picture of him standing alongside an image of Jerusalem that replaced Dome of the Rock with Jewish Temple was ‘really unfortunate’
By ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is pictured next to a man holding a poster of the Jewish Temple replacing the Muslim Dome on the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, at an event for the Achiya educational nonprofit in Bnei Brak, May 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Kikar HaShabbat)
May 22, 2018, 10:28 pm
US Embassy: Image of Jewish Temple ‘thrust in front’ of envoy Friedman for photo
US ambassador photographed with poster of Temple Mount, without Dome of the Rock; ultra-Orthodox non-profit apologizes for employee’s ‘cheap political act’
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Jewish men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 31, 2017 to mark the beginning of Tisha B'av. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 1, 2017, 1:41 am
Israelis gather in Jerusalem’s Old City after weeks of tensions over Temple Mount
Thousands pray at Western Wall to mark start of Tisha B’Av fasting and memorial day, commemorating destruction of ancient temples
By AFP and ToI Staff
Cartoon published in Saudi Arabia's Al Watan newspaper, July 28, 2017. (Screenshot)
July 28, 2017, 1:49 pm
Arab cartoons mock Temple Mount capitulation
Media caricatures celebrate Palestinian victory and Israel’s perceived humiliation after new security measures removed from holy site
By ToI Staff
On a tour of the Temple Mount, Yehuda Glick shows religious Jews a diagram of the Jewish temple, which once stood where the golden Dome of the Rock stands today on Sepetember 17, 2013 in Jerusalem Israel. (Photo by Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images via JTA)
July 8, 2017, 11:57 am
These American Jews are looking beyond the Western Wall – to the Temple Mount
A growing movement is pressing to restore the right of Jews to pray at the site of the biblical Jewish temples
By Andrew Tobin
Likud MK Oren Hazan in a pose that makes him appear to be holding the Golden Dome atop the Temple Mount. (Oren Hazan)
May 26, 2017, 12:56 am
Likud MK provokes again with Dome of the Rock pic
Controversial lawmaker Oren Hazan follows up selfie with Trump with photo ‘holding’ the golden dome
By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff
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