Five Israelis are in custody on suspicion of plotting to attack a Muslim shrine on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Authorities said the five Jews from a Chasidic group linked to far-right politics were arrested last month and confessed to planning to fire an anti-tank rocket at Al-Aksa Mosque in a bid to spark Muslim outrage.
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