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Troops of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published April 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 24, 2024, 1:03 pm
Daily Briefing April 24: Day 201 – Gaza heats up; Hezbollah drones reach Israeli beaches
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on intensified fighting in Strip and IDF efforts to evacuate Gazans, IDF’s responses to mass graves accusations, and detention of 13 people and 2 goats
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An Orthodox Jewish man walks past the Golden Gate, as he circles around all the gates to the Temple Mount while praying in Jerusalem's Old City, early morning on August 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 11, 2022, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 11: Victory for Temple Mount activists; Lebanon deal almost done
Tal Schneider updates us on the latest with the maritime border agreement and Russia’s use of Iran-made weapons in Ukraine; Jeremy Sharon on shofar blowing at the Eastern Wall
By ToI Staff
Religious Jews are escorted by Israeli police as they tour the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on September 24, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 8:20 pm
Fighting rabbinic ban, Jewish activists push Temple Mount prayer toward mainstream
How a group of determined activists has been reinterpreting Jewish law, shifting public discourse and challenging the status quo at one of the most contentious places on Earth
By Judah Ari Gross
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
MK Masud Ghnaim of the Joint List meets Arab volunteers on the Temple Mount on May 20, 2017 as part of an annual event preparing the site for the Muslim holy moth of Ramadan that starts Friday. (Courtesy)
May 20, 2017, 11:48 pm
Arab MK visits Temple Mount despite lawmaker ban
Masud Ghnaim says he was participating in pre-Ramadan event, denies provocation ahead of Trump visit
By ToI Staff
Roni Alsheich prays at the Western Wall on December 3, 2015, shortly after he is sworn in as the new Israel Police commissioner. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 4, 2016, 5:47 pm
Police escorts on Temple Mount due to Jewish ‘provocations,’ police chief says
‘There is no equality’ at the Jerusalem holy site, ‘to the disadvantage of the Jews,’ Roni Alsheich tells Israeli diplomats
By Raphael Ahren and Judah Ari Gross
Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick, No. 33 on the Likud list, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on August 19, 2015. (Courtesy: Yehuda Glick)
September 1, 2015, 6:18 pm
Netanyahu agrees things must change on Temple Mount, says Likud activist
PM is unhappy with current arrangements at powder-keg holy site, says Yehudah Glick, whose bid to enable Jewish prayer there led to an attempt on his life last year
By Elhanan Miller
Religious Jews visit Temple Mount, August 25, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
August 31, 2015, 9:39 am
On Temple Mount, some see a dome and imagine an altar
More and more religious Jews are visiting the holy site, part of a movement defying a centuries-old rabbinic ban and stoking tension with Muslims who also lay claim to the esplanade
By Elhanan Miller
Dr. Shimon Glick visits his son, terrorist shooting victim Yehudah Glick, at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, November 2, 2014. (Renee Ghert-Zand)
November 2, 2014, 11:11 pm
Yehudah Glick ‘was a marked person,’ father says
Shimon Glick, who won’t go up to the Temple Mount himself, says his son ‘believes anyone who wants to pray there should be allowed to do so. He doesn’t want to kick the Muslims off’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi Yehudah Glick (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 30, 2014, 12:56 pm
Activist was threatened before assassination attempt, friends say
MK accuses police of ignoring complaints by Temple Mount booster Yehudah Glick
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Yehudah Glick, photographed after a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, October, 2013. (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/FLASH90)
October 30, 2014, 1:21 am
Yehudah Glick, shot in Jerusalem, works for Jews’ right to pray on Temple Mount
US-born activist raises awareness of the centrality of the site to Jewish tradition, went on hunger strike when banned from visiting
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Dome of the Rock, March 1, 2013 (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 12, 2013, 6:15 pm
On the Temple Mount, a battle brews over Jewish prayer
Religious Jews are paying more attention to the sacred enclosure in Jerusalem’s Old City. The effects could be dramatic
By Matti Friedman
Elli Fischer
May 7, 2012, 1:05 pm
Elli Fischer
Fight for your right (to pray)
An ironic observation on freedom of religion at Judaism’s holiest site
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