The Temple Mount is the holiest site in the Jewish faith because for over a thousand years a Jewish Temple to God stood there. Solomon’s Temple stood from approximately 966-586 BCE, rebuilt ...

Saturday night, August 2nd is the Jewish fast day, “9th of Av.” The Fast of Av commemorates the ancient destructions of the ...

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When Israel wrested control of East Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967, it permitted the Wakf to retain its civil and religious authority over the Temple Mount compound.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a holy site for the world’s three monotheistic religions, especially Judaism and Islam. As such, it’s a religious and political flashpoint that has the potential to ...

No one calls the Temple Mount the “Mosque” Mount. Its seizure followed the Muslim conquest in 638 C.E. In a similar erasure of Jewish history, Jordan’s “West Bank,” captured by the ...

The Temple Mount -- known to Muslims as the Haram al Sharif, or “noble sanctuary” -- is part of the Old City of Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War.

Israel's security minister Itamar Ben Gvir is drawing criticism following a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday and remarks that encourage breaking a more than half-century-old agreement.

* The Temple Mount is the most sacred site in Judaism. Jews believe biblical King Solomon built the first temple there 3,000 years ago. A second temple was razed by the Romans in AD 70.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the Temple Mount despite increased violence at the holy site and in the Israeli capital. Barkat went to the site Tuesday with the commander of the Israel Police ...

Our duty is to warn,” said Sheik Ekrima Sabri, who oversees Muslim affairs in Jerusalem, using the Arabic name for the Temple Mount. “If they want to make peace in the region, they should stay ...

Radiocarbon dating and microarchaeology untangle the history of Jerusalem's Temple Mount: A view from Wilson's Arch. PLOS ONE, 2020; 15 (6): e0233307 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233307 ...