Jerusalem Court Allows Jewish-prayer Activist Back to Temple Mount

A hardline activist who raised his hands in the air while visiting the Temple Mount compound did not violate the status quo at the site, a Jerusalem court said on Monday, reversing a lower court’s decision to ban the Israeli man from visiting the compound for 15 days.
Jerusalem District Court judge Ram Vinograd called the ban against Yehuda Etzion a “slippery slope” and accepted an appeal against the restriction filed on Etzion’s behalf by the Honenu group.
The judge said that the gesture was not sanctioned in the past, and that if police wanted to change the instructions on proper behavior at the site, it should have done so explicitly.

 

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