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| Uri Ariel |
Following a three year ban, Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu has allowed ministers of the Knesset (MKs) to visit
the Temple Mount. There are new regulations
among which MKs must notify Netanyahu twenty-four hours in advance and will not
be allowed to give speeches on the mount.
The first two MKs to ascend the mount were Uri
Ariel and Sharren
Haskel. The MKs will be allowed to
visit the mount only once every three months.
In a not too surprising move, the Palestinian
Authority condemned visits by Jews to the Temple Mount.
In a recent video, Ariel is to have
said,
We hope and pray that the 9th of Av will be a day of happiness as the prophet says: “We will build a second Holy Temple and there will be no more fast days, rather all of the sacrifices that we read on Shabbat in the section of Pinhas, we can fulfil and not just learn about. If it is God’s will and with God’s help, the Priestly Blessing for everyone, for everyone that goes up, with God’s help.
Ariel is a member of the Jewish
Home (Ha Bayit Ha Yehudi) party, which is a Jewish Orthodox, Zionist political
party. His political and religious views
are not without controversy.
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