Jerusalem
“The ongoing reckless statements and actions of this minister only sow chaos and exacerbate tensions,” Foggy Bottom spokesman Matthew Miller said.
The Heritage Ministry will receive 2 million shekels for the program at Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The incident took place on a main highway some nine miles north of Jerusalem.
The government and prime minister set policy on the Temple Mount, not ministers, says the PMO in response.
The development plan—comprising some 5,000 housing units and hotel rooms—will be built near Hebron Road, which connects the capital city to Judea.
Ekrima Sabri was reportedly released pending an indictment, and on the condition that he stay away from the Temple Mount for a week.
The fire erupted in the city’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood, where residents immediately alerted the emergency services.
The quarry, unearthed in the city’s present-day Har Hotzvim industrial park, is one of the largest ever found in Jerusalem, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
“Israel’s policy of maintaining the status quo on the Temple Mount has not changed and will not change,” the Prime Minister’s Office responded.
Archeologists believe they were “intended to protect the city from the north—the only weak point of the City of David slope.”
The parents of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin initiated the donation of a Torah scroll to a Jerusalem community center.
Jerusalem Youth Chorus earns enthusiastic approval from judges and a standing ovation from the live audience.
