Original Post from JCPA: The latest confrontation over the Mercy Gate (Golden Gate, or in Hebrew, Shaar HaRachamim), which has been disputed in the past, reflects a new pact between the opponents of Trump’s “Deal of the Century” consisting of the Palestinian Authority, Turkey, and Jordan, which is concerned about its future status on the Temple Mount. The focus of new tensions on the Temple Mount...
Israeli Archeologist Finds Artifacts from Time of Solomon’s Temple
Via Canadian Jewish News: Yuval Baruch, Jerusalem’s district archeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, made archeological history in October 2007 when he uncovered pottery artifacts on the site of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount dating from the time of King Solomon’s Temple (the First Jewish Temple). “The Muslim Waqf does not allow Israeli archeologists to conduct any...
First-Temple Building Remains Found Near the Jewish Holy Temple Mount
While Muslims huddle in their stench-filled darkened rooms, conniving new ways to fabricate their history and concoct schemes to murder innocent Jews, the Israel Antiquities Authority announces that for the first time in the history of the archaeological research of Jerusalem that building remains from the First Temple period have been exposed so close to the Temple Mount – on the eastern slopes...
Police Stop Islamic Work on Temple Mount in Jerusalem
From Police Stop Islamic Work on Temple Mount in Jerusalem:
Police on Tuesday stopped Wakf Muslim trust officials from performing unauthorized construction work on the Temple Mount. Officers blocked workers from continuing unauthorized “surfacing work,” said Jerusalem police chief Cmdr.
Muslims Declare Jewish Temples Never Existed In Jerusalem
By The Editors of OneJerusalem.org: On the day that archaeologists announced discovering on the Temple Mount fragments of table vessels and animal bones dating back to Solomon’s Temple in the eight century B.C.E. — the former Mufti of Jerusalem and Fatah’s adviser on Jerusalem declared “There was never a Jewish Temple on al-Aqsa (The Temple Mount) and there is no proof...
Books: G-d’s Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem
Jewish World Review Oct. 9, 2007 / 27 Tishrei 5768 New book takes us on the trail of objects taken from Second Temple By Richard Di Dio The boundary between quest and obsession is not defined until it is crossed. By then it is too late — and extremely perilous. This is inevitable when the search is for some of the most precious and potentially explosive objects in the world: religious icons that...
Quarry for Temple Mount’s Giant Rocks – Found
Via INN: The Antiquities Authority announced today that it has found the quarry that supplied the giant stones for the building of the Temple Mount. The quarry is located in what is now one of Jerusalem’s newest neighborhoods, Ramat Shlomo (also known as Reches Shuafat), between Ramot and French Hill. The quarry was found in the course of an archaeological rescue dig prior to the...
Q&A on the Temple Mount with Dr. Eilat Mazar
Renowned archeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University and the Shalem Center answers JPost’s readers’ questions about the Mughrabi Gate dispute and the status of the Temple Mount in recent years. Of the hundreds of questions received, here are 20 which encompass the major issues at hand.
Today in Jewish History – Tishrei 8
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In 825 BCE, the Jewish people began a 14-day celebration to dedicate the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple project was initiated by King David, and built by his son, King Solomon. Solomon’s Temple was the spiritual center of Jewish life for 410 years, until its destruction by the Babylonians in 422 BCE.
Muslim terror group broadcasting from Temple Mount
This is beneath contempt and an abomination. Islam is truly diseased. Via WND: The official radio network of a major terror organization has been exclusively broadcasting daily from the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, WND has learned. The radio network regularly features Iranian and anti-Semitic propaganda and death threats against Jews. The Al-Quds network, the official radio station...