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Waqf official decries ‘dangerous’ Jewish prayers held discreetly on Temple Mount
[IsraelTimes] Media and Jewish activists say police increasingly turn blind eye to practice, which Moslem leaders slam as violation of decades-old status quo at holy site.As police stood by, three Jewish men stepped forward, placed their hands out at chest level and began reciting prayers in low tones in the shadow of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, known to Moslems as the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, have long been unthinkable. But they have quietly become the new norm in recent years, flying in the face of longstanding convention, straining a delicate status quo, and raising fears that Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-27 |
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