Right-wing Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir led a group of over 1,000 Jews to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel, on Tuesday, where many performed prayers in defiance of a status quo that has held for 57 years.
As Judeo-Christian values come under attack and antisemitism rises worldwide, a recent event saw top faith leaders, former diplomats, and conservative scholars gather to promote traditional values that have long served as the foundation of Western civilization, in an effort to advance peace across the globe, while warning of the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran led by radical Islamists.
At a time when the Jewish state is battling an existential threat, President Joe Biden assured the Jordanian king that Jewish and Christian prayer would continue to be banned — under what is known as the “status quo” — on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in the Jewish faith and revered by Christians worldwide, so as not to inflame Muslim anger.
A fox was spotted on Wednesday evening walking along Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on the very night Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple, recalling an ancient prophecy about its rebuilding.
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg published an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday warning against the Netanyahu-led government’s plans to reform its left-leaning judiciary, saying Israel was “courting disaster.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to chide U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides on Sunday, saying “all democracies should respect” Israel’s decisions, after the American envoy said Israel should “pump the brakes” on the government’s plan to reform the country’s left-wing judiciary.
President Joe Biden on Saturday issued his first comment on the controversial judicial overhaul debate currently raging in Israel, telling The New York Times a “consensus” was needed before enacting any reforms.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise to Jordan on Tuesday to meet with King Abdullah II, to whom he reportedly vowed not to change the status quo on the flashpoint Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem.
The Biden administration declined to defend Israel at a United Nations Security Council meeting Thursday called to rebuke Israel for allowing a Jewish minister to visit the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. The site, located in the Old
A United Nations committee approved a draft resolution Friday calling on the International Court of Justice in the Hague to urgently issue its opinion on the legal consequences of allegedly denying the Palestinian people the right to self-determination, a move Israel’s envoy to the global body maintains will “endanger” the country’s future as well as any chance of peace with the Palestinians.
At least three police officers were wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack at the entrance to the flashpoint Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday morning, marking the fifth Palestinian terrorist assault in recent days.
A Palestinian cleric said “not a single homosexual” should be allowed to live in the land of “Palestine” and Jerusalem, and called gay people an “abomination” during a sermon he gave at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Palestinian rioters hurled rocks, chairs and fireworks at thousands of Israeli Jews who ascended the flashpoint Temple Mount on Sunday to celebrate Jerusalem Day, amid warnings by the Palestinian Authority that Israel was “playing with fire.”
A Jerusalem court ruled on Sunday that Jews should now be permitted to recite the seminal Jewish “Hear o Israel” prayer as well as bow down on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, in a decision that sparked an outcry among Arab officials.
A delegation of senior Hamas officials visited Moscow to meet with Russian officials amid ongoing clashes on the Temple Mount, a report from the Hebrew-language Walla website said on Wednesday morning.
A large Hamas banner with a photo of a terrorist was raised on the Temple Mount on Monday morning, as more than 200,000 Muslims ascended the Al Aqsa Mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of Ramadan.
During violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in recent days, a Palestinian imam led a prayer calling for the “extermination” of the “evil” Jews and their supporters that was broadcast on Palestinian Authority (PA) television.
As Palestinian violence on the Temple Mount has intensified in recent days, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated in U.S. cities calling for deadly violence and an end to the Jewish state. In one incident, a Jewish counter-protester was allegedly punched in the face for carrying an Israeli flag.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour was accused of “hostility” after a tense back-and-forth with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in which the anchor criticized the Jewish State’s response to recent violent Palestinian riots against Israeli police and Jewish worshippers, with the Israeli leader replying: “When faced with violence you have to act tough.”
Israel Police arrested seven Palestinians on Wednesday for throwing Molotov cocktails from inside al-Aqsa mosque, ostensibly one of Islam’s holiest sites. The intervention came amid ongoing clashes as Jewish visitors enter the Temple Mount compound for the last time until the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.
Jordan’s prime minister on Monday praised Palestinian rioters on Temple Mount for physically assaulting Israelis going to pray at the site, which is Judaism’s holiest.
Clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli security forces erupted again on Sunday morning in the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, as Palestinians tried to stop Jewish worshipers from entering the holy site.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman on Tuesday to discuss curbing the violence during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, amid an uptick of terror attacks in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday walked back comments made a day earlier calling for the “freedom of worship for Jews” at the flashpoint Temple Mount amid outcry from the Arab world.
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.”
Outrage has been growing online after Britain’s Sky News Middle East correspondent Mark Stone suggested Israeli policies and its “untenable occupation” were to blame for an increase in UK antisemitism, leading him to issue an apology that many rejected.
In order for the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to hold up, Jews must be barred from visiting the Temple Mount — Judaism’s holiest site — in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers.
Palestinians rioted again Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, hurling stones and incendiary devices, and Israeli police were required to enter the Temple Mount compound to stop the violence — the same pattern that the Hamas Palestinian terrorist group used as a pretext to launch a war with Israel two weeks ago.
Enormous banners hailing the Hamas terror group and its terrorist leaders have been hung on the Temple Mount as worshipers gather for Eid al-Fitr prayers at the holy site.
Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden Tuesday for his “weakness” and lack of support for Israel, amid a deadly barrage of rockets battering the country.
A member of the Bahraini royal family said Sunday his delegation visited Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday without revealing their identity to the Muslim authority that administers the holy site for fear of being attacked by Palestinians, saying barring people from praying there was a “new form of terror.”
A United Nations General Assembly committee on Thursday adopted a resolution, backed by 139 member states, that referred to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount only by its Muslim name and ignored any connection to Judaism — despite it being the religion’s holiest site.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia and Israel are holding secret negotiations to allow Saudi representatives to join the Waqf Islamic council that controls the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, according to a report Monday by the Israel Hayom daily.
TEL AVIV – A rare bronze coin dating back to the Bar Kochba revolt (circa 132 CE) was revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Monday, just ahead of the Lag B’Omer holiday, which commemorates the life of anti-Roman second-century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
TEL AVIV – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE have welcomed the “just” proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace, unveiled Tuesday by President Donald Trump.
TEL AVIV – On the heels of President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would make a decision regarding the annexation of the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements as early as Sunday.
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
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.
