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Temple Mount

In parts of the city, stone throwing has become a daily event.

Kobi Michael and Oded Eran
Sept. 21 2015 12:01AM

The chief Islamic judge of Jordan was heckled there by Palestinians.

Khaled Abu Toameh
May 27 2015 12:01AM

The Second Temple was built in Jerusalem by returnees from Babylonian exile around 516 BCE. Some 500 years later, King Herod undertook a program of. . .

Leen Ritmeyer
Dec. 4 2014 12:01AM

In the past weeks, Palestinian leaders from both Fatah and Hamas have been inciting their people to violence with claims that Israel is planning to. . .

Nadav Shragai
Nov. 14 2014 12:01AM

The reason Jews can’t pray at Judaism’s holiest site.

Nov. 12 2014 12:01AM

Since taking Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, Israel has always shown caution and restraint when it comes to the Temple Mount. In particular, prayer on. . .

David Horovitz
Nov. 7 2014 12:01AM

A gold medallion, newly on display at the Israel Museum, is from a 7th-century trove found at the base of the Temple Mount. But what. . .

Ilan Ben Zion
Sept. 23 2014 12:01AM

As a simple matter of religious freedom and equal rights, Jews, like Muslims, should be allowed to pray atop Judaism’s holiest site. 

Michael Freund
May 21 2014 12:01AM

The “Sharansky” plan for a non-Orthodox worship section at the Western Wall deserves the support of both Israelis and Diaspora Jews.

March 3 2014 12:01AM

The first known photographs of Jerusalem, taken when Ottoman Turks ruled the city, show a Temple Mount and Western Wall in disrepair and surrounded by rubble.

Rose Eveleth
Jan. 29 2014 12:00AM

A gold medallion etched with the image of a menorah may be the oldest Torah ornament ever found in an archaeological dig.

Sept. 10 2013 12:00AM

Contrary to popular wisdom, Jews did not abandon the Temple Mount following the destruction of the Second Temple.

F. M. Loewenberg
July 19 2013 12:00AM

One need not envision the reconstruction of the Temple, or even wish to pray where it once stood, to believe that the Jewish people ought. . .

Nadav Shragai
July 16 2013 12:00AM