Israel briefly detained a senior Palestinian Authority cleric for entering Jerusalem illegally. Sheik Taysir Tamimi, a resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, was arrested Wednesday while trying to attend prayers at Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City.
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