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More Muslim worshippers will be allowed to enter the Temple Mount for Friday prayers.
The archaeological attraction is located near Ben-Gurion Airport and on the Israel Trail.
The security summit, during which Israel agreed to stop discussing new settlement units for four months and authorizing outposts for six month, comes nearly a month after the two sides agreed on the need for a “de-escalation” at the Aqaba talks.
In his recent clash with Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) flip-flops on the question of whether antisemitism is a unique challenge.
It hasn’t conducted an attack in Israel for 17 years, said Liram Koblentz-Stenzler of the global far-right extremism desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and a visiting Yale fellow.
Pew statistics show Americans view Jews, Protestants, Catholics more favorably than Muslims, Mormons
“This survey confirms what we have found repeatedly over the past decade, which is that on the whole, Jews are among the most positively regarded religious groups in America,” Alan Cooperman, director of religion research at Pew Research Center, told JNS.
The Iraq-based Islamic Fatwa Council slammed the terrorist organization for its treatment of Palestinians.
If the court does not overrule a lower decision, grumbling co-workers could prevent the faithful from observing their holy days of rest, say American Jewish organizations.
“That must’ve been disappointing to various antisemitic folks who are pushing these resolutions,” Detroit rabbi and Jewish leader Asher Lopatin told JNS.
The new Jewish house of worship is part of an interfaith complex that includes a mosque and a church.
In November, Palestinian gunmen stormed a hospital in Jenin and seized the body of the Druze Israeli.
The suspect, a resident of eastern Jerusalem, was allegedly paid by terrorist groups to carry out the murder during a visit by the Israeli minister to the Temple Mount during Ramadan.
