Posts Tagged: Waqf
Islamic Waqf Announces Jerusalem’s Temple Mount to Be Reopened This Sunday
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City will be reopened this Sunday. The site -- the holiest place in Judaism and also sacred to Muslims --...
Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas: No Peace as Long as Israel Exists
Israel's Arab neighbors increasingly are looking to bury the hatchet with the Jewish state after decades of a technical state of war -- but not...
A Professor’s Sins and the Temple Mount
JNS.org - In an op-ed by Mick Dumper, a professor of Middle East politics at the University of Exeter and author of a book on Jerusalem, we read this prognosis: "Flushed...
Arab Authorities Abuse Their Power Over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
JNS.org - Jordan took the dramatic step last week of significantly increasing Palestinian Arab control over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. As a result, the antisemitic...
Chipping Away at the Status Quo on the Temple Mount
JNS.org - Palestinians in Jerusalem achieved the victory they had been longing for on Friday: Muslim worshipers crowding into the Golden Gate area of the...
Four Israeli Police Officers Injured in Temple Mount Unrest
Four Israeli police officers were injured and 24 Arab rioters were arrested in violent clashes on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday. The Hebrew news...
Jerusalem Islamic Waqf: Israel Did Not Damage or Steal Any Historical Items During Recent Temple Mount Searches
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf -- the Jordanian-funded body which administers the Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount -- said in a statement on Thursday that...
After Day of High Diplomatic Tension, Staff of Israeli Embassy in Jordan Returns Home Safely to Jewish State
After a day of intense diplomacy, the staff of the Israeli Embassy in Amman -- including the security guard who was lightly wounded in an...
Two IDF Soldiers Banned From Temple Mount After Salute
JNS.org - Two IDF soldiers touring the Temple Mount on Israeli Independence Day were banned from future visits after the soldiers apparently saluted at the holy...
Unfree Speech on the Temple Mount
Having taught the history of freedom of speech in the United States for 45 years to college students at Brandeis and Wellesley I retain a residual...
Muslims Carrying Out Unauthorized Excavations on Temple Mount Claim They Are Repairing Water Leakage
Unauthorized excavations were discovered to be taking place on the Temple Mount, the Hebrew news site 0404 reported on Sunday, after photos of a bulldozer...
Report: Jordanian King, Palestinian President Reject Israeli Offer to Reduce Number of Non-Muslim Visitors to Temple Mount
In an effort to reduce tensions and restore calm, Israel presented an offer to Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to reduce the number of Jewish...
PA Cleric Incites Followers to Commit Violence Against Israel and Jews
Another Palestinian cleric has delivered a blatantly anti-Semitic sermon and incited violence against Jews, according to a Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) report. Preaching from al-Aqsa Mosque,...
Jaffa Orange Republic: Towards the Ontogeny of Jewish Statehood in the 21st Century
Maturation in Jewry's Third Commonwealth will be signaled by conspicuous shifts in attitudes and approaches in diverse areas. The prevailing state of affairs - a state fraught with existential...
