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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 596

Haram al-Sharif

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) speaks with Hadash-Ta'al head Ayman Odeh and MKs Ahmad Tibi and Youssef Atauna in Amman, Jordan, March 4, 2024. (Royal Hashemite Court)
March 4, 2024, 7:12 pm
Arab MKs meet Jordan’s king amid concerns of Ramadan unrest at Temple Mount
Hadash-Ta’al head Ayman Odeh, lawmakers Tibi and Atauna reportedly ask Abdullah to ensure freedom of worship; king said to warn that Israeli government extremists seek escalation
By ToI Staff
File: Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount during the holy month of Ramadan, Jerusalem's Old City, April 17, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90/File)
February 28, 2024, 11:35 pm
Report: War cabinet sidelines Ben Gvir, rejects Ramadan Al Aqsa limits on Arab Israelis
Rejection follows Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s call for Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank to march to Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first day of holy month
By ToI Staff
Palestinians chant slogans and wave Hamas flags during a protest against Israel, in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
April 17, 2022, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 17: Riots on Temple Mount as Passover, Ramadan & Easter converge
Editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian update us on skirmishes at holy flashpoint, coalition calculations and new Iron Beam anti-missile technology
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Israeli police officer stands guard as a religious Jew in army uniform visits the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 3, 2021. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
December 2, 2021, 11:46 pm
19 countries drop support for UN resolution omitting Jewish tie to Temple Mount
Resolution only referring to holy site by Muslim name still passes overwhelmingly, but tally not as lopsided as 2018 result, which Israeli envoy says is cause for optimism
By Jacob Magid
Palestinian Muslims resume praying outside the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosques compound on February 12, 2021, following a 45-day pause due to COVID-19 restrictions. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
February 12, 2021, 7:34 pm
15,000 Muslim worshipers pack Temple Mount in defiance of COVID restrictions
Holy site reopened following 45-day pause due to pandemic restrictions; number of seriously ill patients in Israel continues to decline as effects of vaccinations kick in
By ToI Staff
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L) speaks with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin before US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
January 29, 2020, 4:52 pm
US envoy: We won’t impose change to status quo to let Jews pray at Temple Mount
Responding to apparent contradiction in US plan, Friedman hopes for more openness to ‘religious observance everywhere, including Temple Mount,’ but only if agreed by all
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
An aerial view of the Dome of the Rock, left, in the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, and the Western Wall, center, the holiest site where Jews are permitted to pray (File photo: AFP/JACK GUEZ)
January 29, 2020, 12:31 am
Trump plan includes apparent contradiction over prayer rights at Temple Mount
Document highlights sensitivity of site and calls to maintain status quo, but also says ‘people of every faith should be permitted to pray on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif’
By ToI Staff
Police are seen outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque during clashes following Friday afternoon prayers at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 27, 2018. (Police Spokesperson)
July 27, 2018, 7:19 pm
Police enter Al-Aqsa Mosque, clash with worshipers in Temple Mount riots
Authorities arrest 24 people, with 4 officers injured, after Palestinians barricade themselves in mosque following Friday afternoon prayers; holy site reopened after nearly 4 hours
By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid
Muslim worshipers clash with police on the Temple Mount on July 27, 2018. (Screen capture: Ir Amim)
July 27, 2018, 3:40 pm
Violent clashes break out on Temple Mount after Muslim prayers
Worshipers attack police with rocks, fireworks after parade marking year since metal detectors were removed from site; policeman, several rioters said lightly wounded
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
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
Students for the Temple Mount chairman Tom Nisani places a ring on the finger of his fiance Sarah Lurcat at the Temple Mount on June 29, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 29, 2017, 8:15 pm
Jewish activist couple marries surreptitiously on Temple Mount
Wedding ceremony carried out in act of protest, since Israel bars Jews from prayer or rituals at flashpoint holy site; police to question the groom
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount, September 2014 (Michael Naftali Unterberg Facebook page)
May 2, 2017, 4:49 pm
2 IDF soldiers barred from Temple Mount for saluting
After Independence Day tour, uniformed members of Kfir Brigade banned from future visits to holy site
By ToI Staff
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova addresses the World Jewish Congress' 15th Plenary Assembly in New York on April 24, 2017. (Shahar Azran)
April 25, 2017, 12:01 am
UNESCO head calls Temple Mount ‘holiest place in Judaism’
In address to World Jewish Congress, Irina Bokova defends links of all three monotheistic religions to Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
On a tour of the Temple Mount, Yehuda Glick shows religious Jews a diagram of the Jewish temple, believed to have once stood where the golden Dome of the Rock stands today. September 17, 2013.(Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)
March 27, 2017, 9:50 pm
PM may allow lawmakers to resume Temple Mount visits
Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly says visits can resume in three months, after 18-month ban. Right-wing MK still to petition High Court
By Sue Surkes
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