Leading Israeli rabbis reissued a ban on Jews visiting Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. The ruling this week upholds an edict, put out after Israel recaptured Judaism’s holiest site in the 1967 Six-Day War, that Jews should consider the mount off limits to avoid accidental desecration.
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