Third Temple

A participant in the Jerusalem Day Flag March carries a flag bearing the image of the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 14, 2026. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Activestills)
The Israeli right is marching under a new flag
Once confined to the margins, a movement seeking Jewish sovereignty over Al-Aqsa and an openly theocratic regime is going mainstream.
By Menachem Klein June 15, 2026
Israeli Jews visit the Temple Mount compound, site of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Old City, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 8, 2017. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
Tisha B’Av and the mainstreaming of the Temple discourse
The further Israel moves from a solution to the conflict, the more it finds itself in need of the symbols of the religious right. As long as liberal Israelis do not fully renounce the sanctification of blood and land, they will be unable to present a real alternative.   By Yudith Oppenheimer I have not adhered to…
By +972 Magazine July 22, 2018
Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city on the first day of Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) marking the end of the hajj and commemorating Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command, on October 4, 2014. (Activestills.org)
The fraud that is the Temple Mount movement
Following the murder attempt on Yehuda Glick, the claim is being made – and getting a more sympathetic hearing than usual – that he and his colleagues have been leading a civil rights movement for Jews. Don’t believe it. Ten years ago I interviewed Likud Knesset member Moshe Feiglin in his office in the West…
By Larry Derfner October 31, 2014
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Palestinian Muslim worshipers perform traditional Friday prayers in a street in Wadi Joz neighbourhood outside Jerusalem's Old City, as policemen block their way to Al Aqsa mosque, October 17, 2014. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
There are no good guys in Jerusalem
The attempt to assassinate a prominent right-wing Jewish activist in Jerusalem has brought the city to a boiling point. Now is the time for responsible leadership.  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Israel Police’s decision to temporarily close the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount to all visitors — Jewish and Muslim — “a declaration of war”…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man October 30, 2014
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