Temple Mount comes on hot and heavy

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[h=1]Jews seeking right to pray at Temple Mount vow to continue[/h]

Jews seeking right to pray at Temple Mount vow to continue | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Activists pushing for Jews to be allowed to pray at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount are pledging to step up their efforts, with one group offering to pay $516 to any Jew arrested for praying there. Returning to the Mount, a group that advocates for Jewish sovereignty over the holy site and the rebuilding of the ancient temple there, has launched the campaign to pay Jewish worshipers, Channel 2 reported Tuesday, according to the Times of Israel.
Yehuda Glick, head of another group pushing for more Jews to pray on the mount, the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, told the Associated Press that Jewish visits to the site have increased by 20 percent each year for the last five years. Glick predicted that there will have been 14,000 Jewish visits to the site by the end of 2015.
“When we have 100,000 Jews visiting the Temple Mount, we will be able to demand Jewish prayer,” Yehuda Glick told the AP.

 

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The Jerusalem Post

The haredi Mishpacha newspaper created a social media firestorm on Thursday after it published an opinion article in which the first paragraph, printed in Arabic and in Hebrew, asked that since members of the haredi public do not go up to the Temple Mount “could you please stop murdering us.”

The article, written by Mishpacha Magazine deputy editor Aryeh Ehrlich, explained how the haredi community refrains from going up to the Temple Mount since the haredi rabbinic leadership prohibits visiting the site.

Almost all leading haredi rabbis and arbiters of Jewish law rule that Jews may not visit the Temple Mount since they may [not] enter areas that are forbidden to enter without undergoing purification rituals which cannot be conducted today.

 

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Archeological find in Jerusalem's City of David may answer ancient mystery - Not Just News - Jerusalem Post

[h=2]Archeologists unearth possible Greek Arca remains, used to control Temple Mount; mysterious 2,000-year-old fortification was constructed in Jerusalem during Antiochus IV’s reign.[/h] A recent discovery by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem’s City of David may finally reveal the answer to one of archeology’s most enduring mysteries: the location of the Greek Acra citadel.

The exact spot of the famous stronghold that Antiochus IV used in the second century BCE to control Jerusalem and monitor activity on the Temple Mount has long been unknown due to a paucity of architectural remains that can be traced to the Greek presence in the capital.

 

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Exclusive: Trump planning Temple Mount visit - Israel News - Jerusalem Post

Republican US Presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump is strongly considering a visit to the Temple Mount when he comes to Israel for the first time at the end of the month.

A source closely connected to organizing the trip to Israel confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that Trump's staff is looking into the logistics of visiting the holy site and point of conflict between Israel and the Arab world.

Hard to imagine what kind of Islamic blowback that would create.