"Jews have the right to pray at the doors of the Temple Mount"

Police abducted dozens of followers of Yeshivat Torat Hayyim of the Temple Mount gates on Tisha B & # 39; Sunday, saying their prayers could provoke riots and riots from local Muslim visitors.

Lawyer Menashe Yado, who represents the faithful, wrote to the Minister of Homeland Security, Gilad Erdan, asking him to change the policy of enforcement of the police. The letter sent to the Minister describes the event, during which a group of students from Yeshivat Torat Hayyim arrived from the Binyamin area in Samaria to pray at the gates of Temple Mount on the day of Tisha B & B fast. # 39; Av. The faithful wore tefillin and prayer shawls, and they prayed loudly when the police decided to remove them. They were abducted over a distance of several hundred meters while the police forced them to move to another location, even if they did not violate any law.

The letter adds that "the determined support of the police for the prayer of the Jews outside the gate of the mountain will inform the Muslim public that Jews have rights in the Old City and will allow Jews to realize their national, religious, constitutional and elementary rights. "The letter further baderted that the purpose of the police was to prevent unrest in the area, but the public retreat of the faithful was sending a message to the Muslim public that Jews should not pray at the doors of the Temple Mount.

included a conviction of the manner in which the police acted during the incident. "The police acted in a pattern … which created a commotion between the faithful and the police, where it would have been appropriate to contain the Jewish prayer and create a positive atmosphere. "

The letter asked Minister Erdan to ensure that appropriate lessons were learned from the incident and that" a policy will be formulated with appropriate weight to the Jewish rights to realize their national feelings and freedom of worship at the gates of the Temple Mount. "

The lawyer Menashe Yado of the Legal Honors Organization noted : "Minister Erdan announced when he entered the Knesset that he intends to strengthen the Jewish hold on the Temple Mount.He promised and acted.During his term, politics changed and became a police policy that recognizes the fact that The Temple Mount is in our hands and gives substance to this fact, while respecting the status quo on the one hand and respecting the rights of the Jews on the Temple Mount on the other. "

Yado ex He pleaded that the purpose of the appeal to Minister Erdan is" to draw his attention to the fact that outside the doors of Temple Mount the dictated standards n & # 39; They do not exist, and the Jews can not pray properly, not even on Tisha B'Av, which is a clear day of prayer. We hope that Minister Erdan will continue with the positive and correct tendency that he has created on the Temple Mount, and will work to allow Jews to pray in front of the doors of the Temple Mount. "

" We hope that our letter to Minister Erdan draws his attention to the fact that the Israeli police, in our opinion, for fear of violence by extremist Islamic elements, has not allowed dozens of to pray at the Temple Mount gates in Tisha Be Av. [19659004] "We believe that Minister Erdan has the power to change the operational perception of the police on this issue and to shake it so as to fulfill its purpose. function and to protect the right of the Jews to express their national feelings on the outside.The doors of the Temple Mount C is so that we have turned, and we believe that it can change things, especially since he has proven in the past that he has the right trends in the matter, "concluded Yado