Jordan holds a special status as custodian of the Waqf, the Islamic trust that administers the Temple Mount, and has issues with Jews visiting Judaism’s holiest site.
Mosque officials tried to force an Israeli policeman to remove his religious head-covering before performing a routine security check on the Temple Mount.
For only the second time in over 2,000 years, a Jewish couple was married at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest site, in a secret ceremony.
While workers claim they are repairing a water leak, Israeli organization “Students for the Temple Mount” called on the government to intervene and put an end to “this flagrant contempt for Israel’s holy sites.”
Archaeological proof of the Jewish connection to the land of Israel and of the two Jewish Temples has been found in piles of dirt from illegal Palestinian excavations carried out on the Temple Mount.
