Jewish prayer has returned to the Temple Mount

"Are the days now gone when a Jew would purposely drop a coin and fake a cell phone call simultaneously at the Temple Mount? Jews did this because prayer was prohibited there. As the Jew would reach down to retrieve the coin, he would talk a prayer into his cell phone. Bending down for the coin while praying in disguise on the phone was an act of homage." 
(Comment from Bill Salus)


Jewish worshipers are able to pray on the Temple Mount with what appears to be the tacit consent of police forces at the site, The Jerusalem Post observed during a visit there on Thursday.

Despite the insistence by Israel Police that there has been no change in the decades-old policy, Jews now pray – in full view of the police – in an unobtrusive and inconspicuous manner.

A senior Wakf Department official said he was unaware of any change in the status quo on the Temple Mount, but warned that any change would lead to renewed protests and spark a strong response from Arabs and Muslims.

Led by Rabbi Eliyahu Weber and joyfully singing “Let us go up to the Temple,” a quorum of 10 Jewish men ascended the Temple Mount on Thursday morning at the beginning of non-Muslim visiting hours at 7:00 a.m. This reporter joined the group as it toured the compound.

The group began the typical counter-clockwise tour of the site accompanied as usual by several police officers. It began at the Mughrabi Gate and worked its way around the eastern side of the esplanade, stopping at various points and eventually leaving out of the Chain Gate on its western side into the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.

Upon reaching the eastern gate of the Dome of the Rock shrine, Weber and the group of Jewish men, and two women, stopped for between five and 10 minutes to recite the cantor’s repetition of the central Amidah prayer, including the components for congregational participation. (Read More)

READ THE BILL SALUS ARTICLE ENTITLED, "EVANGELIZE JEWS THROUGH THE COMING THIRD TEMPLE."