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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: April 8, 2005 |
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Jewish Knesset members would be barred from visiting the Temple Mount this coming Sunday, Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra said. Arab Knesset member, however, will be allowed to pray at the holy site.
Throngs of Jewish protesters are expected to gather in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday to demonstrate against the police decision to close the Temple Mount to Jews.
Because of the police refusal to let them enter the site, the protesters will gather below the Mount on Sunday morning "to show our demand for freedom of worship by Jews at the site," he said. "We do not plan to clash with the police or to create disorder. I therefore call on the participants to avoid friction."
"Today all we want is the right to pray on the Temple Mount," said Rabbi Yishai Ba'avad, secretary of The Institute for the Establishment of the Temple. "But this is just the first stage to realizing every Jew's aspiration to see the Temple rebuilt and the sacrificial worship renewed."
Rabbi Yossi Peli of the Samarian settlement Yitzhar, said he organizes a Sivuv She'arim [a march around the Old City gates] every month to express what he called the deep Jewish desire to pray on the Temple Mount and eventury rebuilding of the Temple. "As soon as there is real Jewish leadership in Israel, one of the first decisions will be to rebuild the Temple," Peli said, in remarks cited by the Jerusalem Post.
"I think the majority of people in Israel really want it deep down. If they weren't so addicted to their daily infusion of media junk from that little noisy box, they would awaken from their stupor and demand it," he added. |
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A Pessah sacrifice in Jerusalem
- (Mati Wagner, Jerusalem Post)
04.8.2005
Police beef up presence near Temple Mount ahead of Friday prayers
- (Haaretz)
04.8.2005
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