Islamic Groups Harassing Jews on Temple Mount Outlawed by Israel

The rally came after Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin met on Thursday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, and amidst a string of attacks on Christian holy sites by ultra-nationalist Jews.

The education ministry says that there has been no cuts to the Christian schools network in the current academic year or the year before it, and that “they are funded in an equal manner to other recognized but unofficial institutions in the State of Israel”.

The Temple Mount activist praised the government’s efforts as a “first and very significant step in the right direction towards fulfilling the basic demand for respecting human rights for all, including Jews, on the Temple Mount, the world center for Godly peace”.

Glick told, “It is really wonderful to see, after so many years that we have been begging, the government took this step”. Murabitat, a women’s group, and Murabitun, a men’s group, had increased their verbal and physical attacks on religious Jews visiting the site last month.

Given the country’s important Christian heritage, the small Arab Christian community is regularly discussed when it comes to equality for Arab citizens of Israel.

While most will be content to pray at the Western Wall, which runs adjacent to the mosque compound and is designated for Jewish prayer, some may also try to visit the area where the Muslim’s Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque stand today. “We want to improve them”.

It belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, which is the custodian of most pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land. Muslim security guards, not the Mourabitoun but those appointed by the Waqf Islamic trust, which administers the site, kept a watchful eye. “Every worshiper is an Islamic guard, and all have the right to come here”.

It said Wednesday that the Christians had been offered a number of ways to resolve the differences, but rejected them while choosing to close the schools “at the pupils’ expense”.

The Jewish year will draw to a close this weekend with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, which begins Sunday evening and will usher in the year 5776.

Rabbi Chaim Richman, worldwide director of the Temple Institute, an organization whose mission is to prepare for the building of the third temple, held a different view. Why should there be autonomy for Jewish religious education and not Christian, considering that some of these private Jewish schools have been linked to Israeli settler groups on the West Bank that routinely engage in extremist acts against Palestinians?

The secretariat alleges that recognized but unofficial schools in the haredi sector have not faced similar cuts to the allocated teaching hours, and claiming that the cuts to the Christian sector are therefore discriminatory. The ancient city’s cobblestone streets are too narrow for patrol vehicles, but the whole scene is monitored from above by 320 security cameras. He has also complained of a lack of effective Israeli leadership, and said his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has deteriorated to the extent that they no longer speak regularly.