Police ban Temple Mount Faithful. Reverses earlier policy - 9/11

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:10:52 GMT

In a reversal of an earlier decision, Jerusalem police have said they will not allow members of the Temple Mount Faithful organization to place a pair of symbolic cornerstones for a Third Temple today outside the Old City. Due to the group's public announcements that it plans to hold the ceremony on the Temple Mount, in complete contradiction to the terms agreed upon with police, it was decided not to allow the ceremony to proceed, Jerusalem police said in a statement released last night, according to the Jerusalem Post newspaper. A similar ceremony held by the group last summer on Tisha Be'av, the day marking the destruction of the previous two temples, sparked Arab rioting on the Temple Mount – also the location of the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim mosque.