Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Israeli PM Urged to Place Temple Mount on Heritage List

TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH:
PM Urged to Place Temple Mount on Heritage List

by Hillel Fendel (Arutz Sheva)

As Jerusalem Day approaches, redoubled efforts are underway to increase Jewish awareness of the Temple Mount and to have the site included on the National Heritage Sites list.

Highlights of the campaign include a visit by 43 rabbis to Judaism’s holiest site on Monday and a petition to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to include the location on his recently-formulated list of National Heritage sites.

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That would be interesting. And, I suspect, even more controversial than adding sites from the West Bank.

Background on the Heritage Sites list here.