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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Temple Mount

Israeli troops and their vehicles in the center of Jenin in the West Bank on September 5, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
September 10, 2024, 7:42 am
Security chiefs said to call for action to prevent spike in West Bank violence
Report indicates defense establishment concerned about return of suicide bombers; TV station claims Jordanian intelligence thwarted truck bombing weeks before Allenby attack
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
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, left, visits the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 21, 2023. (Courtesy: Minhelet Har Habayit)
August 28, 2024, 2:45 am
US: Ben Gvir ‘sowing chaos, undermining Israel’s security’ with Temple Mount remarks
State Department ‘reaffirms commitment to preserving the historic status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites,’ as far-right minister asserts Jewish right to prayer at flashpoint compound
By Jacob Magid
Religious Jews are escorted by Israeli police as they tour the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, September 24, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
August 27, 2024, 4:52 pm
Heritage Ministry to fund Temple Mount tours amid far-right push to alter status quo
Decision by ministry, headed by politician from far-right Otzma Yehudit party, will mark first time state has funded such activities on flashpoint holy site
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is flanked by police officers the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, after his visit to the Temple Mount, on the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av, August 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 26, 2024, 1:49 pm
Cabinet ministers warn Ben Gvir endangering Israel with ‘reckless’ Temple Mount moves
PM insists status quo at flashpoint site remains unchanged after Ben Gvir says he’d support building a synagogue atop it; coalition, opposition members call for him to be fired
By ToI Staff
Composite image shows Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, left, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, right. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 23, 2024, 1:37 pm
Backing Shin Bet chief, Gallant says Ben Gvir endangering Israel’s security
Defense minister supports Ronen Bar after he warns of perils of Jewish terror and those enabling it; national security minister responds: Instead of attacking me, attack Hezbollah
By ToI Staff
Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security agency, attends a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Chain Goldberg/Flash90)
August 22, 2024, 10:27 pm
Shin Bet chief warns Netanyahu, ministers that Jewish terror endangering Israel
Railing against settler violence, Ronen Bar also warns that Ben Gvir’s visits to Temple Mount, attempts to change status quo, can ‘lead to bloodshed,’ ‘change State of Israel’
By ToI Staff
Llkud MK Amit Halevi (center) visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during Tisha B'Av, August 13, 2024. (Courtesy)
August 19, 2024, 4:49 pm
‘This is a religious war’: Likud MK calls for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount
While repeatedly challenging Netanyahu on a range of issues, lawmaker Amit Halevi insists the PM is a ‘hero’ whose coalition deserves support despite internal disagreements
By Sam Sokol
File — Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2024, 11:54 pm
In clips with Arabic subtitles, Jerusalem rabbis condemn Jewish prayer at Temple Mount
After Ben Gvir says it’s ‘policy’ to allow Jewish prayer at contested site, over PM’s denials, spiritual leaders slam ‘radical fringes,’ affirm ruling Jews should stay away entirely
By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, center, flanked by his security detail, approaches the entrance to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 14, 2024, 7:15 pm
Haredi parties mull bolting coalition as Ben Gvir pushes Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
Paper aligned with UTJ urges MKs to reconsider place in government, claiming far-right minister’s visit to flashpoint site ‘endangers Jewish lives,’ goes against halachic ruling
By ToI Staff
This image grab taken from a UGC video footage posted on August 13, 2024 shows National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (2nd-R) chanting the slogan 'Am Yisrael Chai' (The People of Israel Live) during a visit to the Temple Mount, where he also hailed Jews at prayer in the compound. (UGC/AFP)
August 14, 2024, 12:02 am
US leads international condemnations of Ben Gvir’s ‘provocations’ at Temple Mount
State Department says minister’s declaration that prayer is allowed at site contributes to ‘greater insecurity and instability in the region’; UN calls move ‘unduly provocative’
By Agencies and Jacob Magid
Jewish worshipers are seen prostrating themselves while praying at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, August 13, 2024 (Video screenshot)
August 13, 2024, 3:59 pm
Ben Gvir scorns PM’s objections as Jews seen praying on Temple Mount: ‘It’s my policy’
As worshipers prostrate themselves during minister’s visit, Netanyahu pans breach of status quo, but Ben Gvir shrugs him off; outraged Haredim warn they may reconsider partnership
By ToI Staff
Sheikh Ekrima Sabri is seen at his home in Jerusalem, February 22, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
August 2, 2024, 7:32 pm
Al-Aqsa imam eulogizes Haniyeh, is detained on suspicion of incitement, terror support
Interior minister says will revoke residency permit of Ekrima Sabri, a former grand mufti of Jerusalem with history of antisemitism, past accusations of terror incitement
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount, January 3, 2023. (Courtesy Minhelet Har Habayit)
July 24, 2024, 5:10 pm
Ben Gvir declares Jewish prayer permitted on Temple Mount, again defying status quo
PM’s office pushes back against far-right minister, insists current situation in which Jews are banned from praying at holy site ‘has not changed and will not change’
By Sam Sokol
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