The Islamist Ra’am party, which is part of Israel’s motley ruling coalition, on Sunday joined a chorus of condemnation from the Arab and Muslim world over the ascent of hundreds of Jewish pilgrims to the Temple Mount to commemorate the Jewish fast of Tisha B’av, claiming the flashpoint site – Judaism’s holiest – is the “sole property of Muslims.”
Religious Jews around the world will observe the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av (“The Ninth of Av”) on Thursday, mourning the destruction of the two Temples.
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 – The Palestinian leadership has condemned a Jewish women’s annual march marking the fast day of Tisha B’Av and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem as a provocation aimed at “Judaizing” the capital, and labeling it “a rebellion against international legitimacy.”
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister told 57 of his counterparts that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not give up on his quest to regain control of the Temple Mount and the Muslim world should prepare itself for the next “very nasty” round of conflict over the holy site in Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Jared Kushner let slip in a private, off-the-record conversation with congressional interns on Monday that he was not sure the Trump administration was able to add anything “unique” towards solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TEL AVIV – Jordan’s foreign minister on Tuesday slammed Israel for the record-breaking 1,300 Jewish “extremists” who “stormed” the Temple Mount for the Tisha B’Av fast commemorating the destruction of both Jewish temples that once stood there.
TEL AVIV – More than a thousand Jews on Tuesday visited the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem for the Tisha B’av fast commemorating the destruction of both Jewish temples that once stood there.
It is difficult, at this point, to say who started the it. What you believe probably depends on whom you support. One thing is quite certain: our leaders made it worse.
Several Muslim worshippers were removed from the Temple Mount complex on Sunday after clashing with police and with Jews visiting the holy site on Tisha B’Av.
A synagogue dating back to the end of the Second Temple Era was discovered on the Tel Recheš Peak in the Galilee last week in a rare and unique archaeological find.
Israeli police are to boost their presence at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound for a Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of ancient temples there, a spokesman said.
Thousands of worshipers visited the Western Wall Saturday night for the start of the Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the ancient temples that once stood atop the adjacent Temple Mount compound.
