Temple Mount

TEL AVIV – Three Jewish Israelis have been indicted for praying at Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, violating a ban on Jewish prayer at the holy site. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority will remunerate Palestinian university graduates who are prepared to live in the Jordan Valley, PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Monday.The Jerusalem Post cited Shtayyeh as saying at the start of the weekly PA cabinet

Muslims on the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – engaged in a clearly orchestrated assault on Israeli police protecting the site on the very day that Jews worldwide mourned the destruction of the First and Second Jewish temples.

TEL AVIV – A well-known Saudi blogger who is in Israel at the behest of its Foreign Ministry was attacked, cursed and spat on by Palestinians during a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday.

“Slaughter the Jews” was spray painted on the Kotel HaKatan, or “little Western Wall,” a section of the Western Wall located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Bahrain views Israel as a country that is here to stay and one it wishes to make peace with, the Gulf state’s foreign minister said Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.S.-led economic peace workshop. 

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has demanded that footage of Jerusalem be omitted from promotional videos on Eurovision, accusing Israel of pushing a “colonial occupation” agenda to fans of the international song competition.

ZARQA, Jordan — Jordan’s King Abdullah II is vowing to keep protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, calling it a “red line” for his country.

TEL AVIV – Palestinians hurled a Molotov cocktail at a police post on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Tuesday, prompting a shutdown of the flashpoint holy site.

Security forces were gearing up Friday morning for anticipated violence ahead of Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as police announced 60 people were arrested overnight on suspicion of planning violence.

TEL AVIV — Amnesty International, a British-based NGO that has received financing from billionaire activist George Soros, has advocated the boycott of tourism in West Bank Israeli communities as well as eastern Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – An extremely rare stone weight inscribed with a word from the Hebrew Bible dating back 3,000 years was discovered by archaeologists near the Western Wall.

JERUSALEM – A Sharia judge for the Palestinian Authority claimed in a sermon that was broadcast on the PA’s official TV network that Jews “dance and live on the body parts of others, and on the blood of others,” and that “there is no global corruption that their rabbis did not allow.”

An American citizen has reportedly been arrested by the Palestinian Authority over suspicion he was involved in selling property to Jews in eastern Jerusalem.

Police arrested five Muslim activists on the Temple Mount on Tuesday and accused them of trying to obstruct a group of Jewish visitors touring the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.

Prior to his being questioned at Israel’s international airport on Sunday, CNN political commentator and Israel critic Peter Beinart admits to consulting a George Soros-funded radical anti-Israel organization about “what to do if I were detained” upon entering Israel.

Police forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque during clashes with Muslim worshipers Friday afternoon that led to an hours-long closure of the Jerusalem holy site.

TEL AVIV – The visit of more than 1,400 Jews to the Temple Mount on Sunday to mark the Tisha B’Av fast mourning the destruction of the two Temples prompted outrage from Jordan and the Palestinians, who described the event as “settlers storming” the holy site. 

TEL AVIV – Israel is to blame for the recent spate of minor earthquakes felt in the region, an article in a Jordanian daily claimed this week, saying that the low-magnitude tremors were either the result of the Jewish state’s underground nuclear weapons testing or an attempt to topple the al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday ended a brief, successful trip to Israel with a visit to a major Jewish shrine in east Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he will lift the ban on parliamentarians visiting the Temple Mount, three years after the government forbade them from entering the flashpoint site due to security concerns.

TEL AVIV – Prince William had a poignant last day in the Holy Land, with a visit to the Western Wall, the Temple Mount and to the grave of his great-grandmother on the Mount of Olives.

Two Palestinians were arrested on Thursday after a group of men inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount hurled chairs, stones and other objects from the holy site, lightly hurting a tourist and an Israeli police officer.

Clay artifacts bearing the seal of King Hezekiah and possibly the seal of the Prophet Isaiah are to be unveiled in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Sunday.

Washington’s ambassador to Israel said that lasting peace in the Middle East is always possible as the U.S. prepares to open its new embassy in the capital Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – Footage of Palestinian protesters faking injuries and using children as human shields in border riots was released by the IDF Saturday night. 

TEL AVIV – Jerusalem under the sovereignty of Israel is a “model for coexistence” and openness among Judaism, Islam and Christianity, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said Monday.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli court on Monday ruled that Jewish visitors to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound may chant “Am Yisrael Chai” (“The people of Israel live”), since it constitutes a patriotic exclamation rather than a religious prayer and is therefore not in violation of the ban on uttering Jewish prayers at the holy site.

The Jordanian government has filed an official complaint to the Foreign Ministry over a recent court ruling allowing Jews to pray outside the gated entrance to the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem, Channel 10 reported Tuesday.

Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera declared that he regrets not backing the Palestinians during their Second Intifada against Israel.