Coming a day after the Channel 12 footage of Jewish prayer on the Mount tolerated by the police, was Bennett, who heads the Orthodox-nationalist Yamina party, indicating that the arrangement put in place by Moshe Dayan in was now at an end?
Or, no, the statement was incorrectly worded and will be amended and reissued. Neither of those things happened. No corrected statement has been issued. The decision Moshe Dayan made on June 17, , can of course be legitimately examined and debated by the Israeli government. But any shift in policy would have far-reaching implications.
Changing the status quo at the Temple Mount is not a move to be considered lightly. Turning an official blind eye to Jewish prayer at the site, then issuing statements appearing to endorse it, then anonymously backtracking while leaving the formal statements unamended, is a case of playing with fire at a uniquely incendiary flashpoint.
But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. Newsletter email address Get it By signing up, you agree to the terms. View comments Hide comments. In fact it seems the change enabling Jewish pilgrims to not only come to the Temple Mount, but pray there, began in , almost two decades after Hanegbi reopened the compound to Jews.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly called for the cessation of Jewish visits to the mount, which as the home of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is the third holiest site in Islam. Given the simmering tensions on the Mount, since Jews were allowed back to the site in , the police have prohibited Jewish religious expression there, relying on a ruling by the High Court of Justice in that determined that while Jews have the legal right to pray there, their ability to do so may be curtailed by law enforcement if it deemed likely that allowing such religious expression could lead to violence.
At present, outwardly observant Jews may visit the site Sunday to Thursday from to 11 A. In contrast to the previous ban on religious expression, after they finished praying, the pilgrims gathered for a sermon, listening to an ultra-Orthodox rabbi expound on the importance of the site, which, as the location of the first and second temples in antiquity, is the holiest site in Judaism. But while the holiness of the site is undisputed by orthodox Jews, the propriety of visiting very much is, with the issue of how to approach the sanctity of the site a matter of fierce debate between ultra-Orthodox and religious-Zionist Jews.
Many rabbis, and almost all ultra-Orthodox ones, prohibit their followers from ascending the Mount due to concerns over ritual purity. Meanwhile a growing number of modern Orthodox rabbis encourage pilgrimages so long as visitors go with a guide who know which parts of the site are permitted.
When Israeli forces captured the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan in June , very few people would visit the site and those who did were widely considered extremists, Yair Sheleg, a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and a journalist at the national-religious Makor Rishon newspaper, told Haaretz.
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