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December 21, 2020       Share:    

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/temple-mount-has-turned-into-corona-mount/

The Temple Mount Has Turned into a Covid-19 Time Bomb

(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - 18,000 people crowd into the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem every Friday, many without masks. In Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem, 14% of Covid tests are positive. Of the 23 neighborhoods in Jerusalem coded red by the Israel Health Ministry, 12 are Arab - home to 320,000 people. In regular times, 35,000 of Jerusalem's Arabs work in Jewish neighborhoods. The chain of infection kills Jews and Arabs alike. Public health laws are not enforced on the Temple Mount because of its well-known volatility in terms of both politics and security. The writer has documented Jerusalem for Ha'aretz and Israel Hayom for over thirty years.

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