Yehudah Glick protested outside the Temple Mount near the Gate of the Tribes.

The Gate of the Tribes (on the north east corner of the Temple Mount)

Yehudah Glick, who is an Israeli Knesset lawmaker, protested the Government’s ongoing restriction that prohibits Knesset members from visiting the Temple Mount.  Glick set up a make-shift office just outside the Gate of the Tribes.  He said that the protest was only for one day, and that, “I’m here to protest the fact that the prime minister won’t enable police to allow us to enter the Temple Mount,” adding that, “I suffer every day I can’t enter the Temple Mount.”  He argued that, “The Jewish God is inclusive… He wants to see the prayer of Muslims and Jews and Christians and Indonesians and Mexicans,” and that, “We don’t want to harm the Muslims, on the contrary… when I see a Muslim praying at the Temple Mount it fills my heart with great joy. It shows me the fulfillment of the prophecies of our prophets.”

Knesset member Yehudah Glick sets up a make-shift office outside an entrance Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, August 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)