Trump to discuss Temple Mount with ambassador to Israel
David Friedman will meet US president, Kushner and Greenblatt in Washington to mull over events of the past two weeks
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US President Donald Trump is to meet with Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in Washington to discuss the Temple Mount crisis.
The meeting is reportedly scheduled for late Monday morning.
“As part of a long-planned trip, Ambassador David Friedman is in DC this week. In addition to a variety of meetings, he will be meeting with the president, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt tomorrow to discuss the events that transpired in the region over the past two weeks where tensions have recently lowered,” an unnamed White House official told Haaretz.
Friedman reportedly was involved in working to lower tensions over the increased security measures at the Temple Mount, which ultimately were removed. The metal detectors and other measures were installed after a July 14 attack by three Arab Israeli men which left two Israeli police officers dead.
Greenblatt, Trump’s special envoy for international relations, also visited Israel last week in a bid to help reduce tensions over the Temple Mount.
Both men last week visited the Salomon family as they observed the seven-day mourning period, or shiva, for three family members killed by a Palestinian terrorist as they sat around their Shabbat table celebrating the birth of a baby boy in the West Bank settlement of Halamish. Friedman also visited the families of the Israel Police officers killed on the Temple Mount.
Comforting the Solomon family: Such strength in the face of adversity! May God bless them spare them further sorrow and may evil be defeated pic.twitter.com/5SL40VyuV9
— Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Stephanie Hallett (@USAmbIsrael) July 26, 2017
The Times of Israel Community.