The Fiction that Bars Jews from the Temple Mount

In his reply to the questions that I had addressed to Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino on the legal status of the Islamic Trust and freedom of access and worship for Jews on the Temple Mount, the legal advisor to the police, Brigadier General Shaul Gordon, wrote that in 1967, Israel’s government made a historic decision to allow the Islamic Trust (wakf) to control the Mount.

The truth is that no such decision exists.

When the Knesset’s Interior Committee convened on Monday, 12 Tishrei (Sept. 16, '13) the Police could not produce any document testifying to the above government decision. As the decision clearly does not exist, I demanded, at the first stage, to close the Temple Mount to Moslems during the Sukkot holiday just as the Mount was closed to Jews for the month of Ramadan.

It is unacceptable that Moslem rioters control the Mount while Israel’s Police Force, which claims to be the sole authority on the Mount, allows them to continue to riot while preventing Israel’s Jewish citizens from freely accessing Judaism's holiest site.

The following is a short summary of the points made by the police in their answer to my query about the legal status of the Islamic Trust on the Temple Mount and my full response to the Commissioner:



The Fiction that bars Jews from the TM