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| Police Chief Says Temple Mount To Stay Open To Jews |
| 2014-11-03 |
| [IsraelTimes] Police Chief Yohanan Danino declared to an emergency meeting of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee on Sunday that he is determined to maintain the right of Jews to access the Temple Mount compound, including by deploying as many officers as it takes to enable visits. Danino faced angry right-wing politicians who demanded to know why the site had been reopened to Moslem worshipers Friday but not to Jewish visitors, as has been the status quo since Israel captured the holy site in 1967. "We will be even more decisive than in the past, when the size of the force was a consideration," Danino said, referring to the recent decision by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bolster the police deployment in Jerusalem to deal with ongoing violence and rising tensions between Jews and Arabs. |
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