Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, condemned the desecration of the site and the unprecedented act, claiming he acted against halacha (Jewish law) by ascending the ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem ... It is also said to be the exact location of his ascension. You should also pay a visit to the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest place ...

Orthodox American immigrants to Israel have played leading roles in activism for greater Jewish access to the Temple Mount. JERUSALEM (JTA) – Liberal American Jews are feeling thwarted in their ...

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Thursday that he’d visited the flashpoint Temple Mount in the morning and prayed there, whereupon the Prime Minister’s Office swiftly said in a ...

“Let them understand that times have changed,” Ben-Gvir tweeted about Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that has responded with violence to previous Temple Mount visits by Jewish Israelis ...

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Dec. 26, 2024. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on ...

A Torah scroll that was written and dedicated to a synagogue that will be built on the Temple Mount was brought for safekeeping at the Karlin Yeshiva in the haredi city of Modi'in Illit.

The Prime Minister's Office released a statement in response to the visit, saying that the "status quo on the Temple Mount has not changed." National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir seen on his ...