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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10409
Struggle for the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - Wednesday's assassination attempt on Yehuda Glick puts the Temple Mount at the center of the Arab-Jewish struggle over Jerusalem. Former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in 1967 prohibited Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, while Glick waged a worldwide battle to get the government to allow Jewish prayer there. That was what made him a red flag for Muslims, who believe (as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas put it) that Jews defile the Islamic character of the Temple Mount.