JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Seven people were detained Thursday after they prostrated themselves during the course of an ascent to Temple Mount. The Chonenu organization reported that the seven were taken for questioning.
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Public displays of religion are prohibited to Jews while on Temple Mount by state law, although this imperative has been questioned in the past as racist, and the High Court ruled that it should only be implemented if there is a clear security risk involved.
In recent years, police have relaxed the prohibition on prayer on Temple Mount and on many occasions it takes place including the priestly blessing, although it is often done quietly and without any fanfare. However prostrating even though it is permitted and even a mitzvah on Temple Mount has not been allowed except at the entrance to Temple Mount.
Those Jews who go up to the Temple Mount have Jewish blood on their hands.
Their irresponsible actions infuriates the world wide Arabic world.
We have zero right to it. We were sent into Golus and we no claim to the world that it belongs to us. We do have a claim to Hashem and we pray for it daily that it should be returned to us through the coming of Moshicah.
so let me understand this and get this straight the Zionists “won” and laid down thousands of soldiers but yet the “losers” waqf tells the Zionists what they can and cannot do, correct?
7 people together all with prostate problems?
Was this a field trip from the nursing home?
What a strange law. I don’t approve of what these people are doing but a law against anything overtly religious except for Islamic is, by American standards, off limits