Suffice it to say: The "status quo" that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan designed on the Temple Mount in 1967 - dead, gone from the world.
Although no one has yet been brought to an official burial, and the political and public discourse continues to treat it as if it is still muscular and existent, it is a corpse that has long since inflated its soul.
55 years after the establishment of the arrangements - centered on religious and administrative autonomy on the Muslim side, Israeli security responsibility, and separation between Jewish visits to the mountain that were allowed, and prayers of Jews on the mountain that were banned - the reality on the mountain has changed dramatically.
But in contrast to the false story that the Palestinians sell to the world - the reality that replaced the status quo greatly strengthened the Muslims' status on the mountain and their grip on it.
On the other hand, it weakened and harmed the status of the Jews and the State of Israel on the Temple Mount.
It starts with a "toddler" thing with high visibility, like the flags: formally, hoisting them on the mountain is forbidden, but in practice Hamas, PA and extremist Islamic movements wave their flags on the mountain, while the only flags that are not hoisted there are Israeli flags. Who today remembers that in the past Jews also entered the mountain through the gates of cotton and cotton?
Jordan has been playing a double game all these years: it also takes advantage of the Israeli generosity towards it and takes everything that Israel gives it on the mountain, nor does it stop slandering us and spreading lies about al-
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All this is no longer possible.
These too were once part of the status quo, but we stopped talking about them.
The only gate open to Jews today is the Mughrabi Gate.
All the other gates: the chain, the cotton, the flocks, the purity, the iron, the dark, the tribes, the overseer and the forgiveness, are open to Muslims and tourists only, and entry for Jews through them is forbidden.
The visiting hours of Jews on the mountain, which in the past were several times more flexible, were reduced to three and a half hours in the morning and one hour at noon, on Sundays-Thursdays only.
The routes of the Jews' visit to the mountain, which in recent weeks have been sown with broken glass and stone barricades and shattered antiquities, have also been shortened and severely restricted.
On the other hand, the prayer areas of the Muslims on the mountain are constantly expanding.
It is a derivative of their relatively new definition of the entire Temple Mount complex as the Al-Aqsa Mosque, including its walls including the Western Wall.
All al-Aqsa.
The Muslims who lament the silent Jewish prayers in the east of the mountain - non-demonstrative prayers, no tefillin, no tallit, no arrangements - forgot to tell that in 1967, when the status quo was established on the mountain, they prayed only in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and over the years they trained four more. Mosques: the structure of the Dome of the Rock, which was not originally a mosque, but actually became a mosque, mainly on Fridays, mainly for women;
Al-Marwani Underground Mosque in Shlomo Stables;
The ancient Al-Aqsa Mosque, below the Upper Al-Aqsa Mosque;
And the Gate of Mercy compound, which the Muslim Waqf also qualified as a prayer area, although it had not been one before.
To this must of course be added the paving of extensive parts of the mountain compound, which are also used today for the prayer of tens of thousands.
Jordanian dictates
Israel, which now sanctifies a virtual status quo, stated many years ago that state laws apply to Mt.
The High Court also upheld this, but the reality is different. "That.
As a result our remnants of the past on the mountain have been disappearing, feathered and blurred for many years.
The long list of damages to the archeology of the Temple Mount, is a sad list that has already become public property.
Along with the damage to antiquities, from all periods, the Muslims became a serial and systematic concealer of any Jewish affiliation with the mountain where the temple stood (by the way: contrary to the writings of their ancient clerics).
Destroy and deny.
Murderers and heirs.
And yes, we should also talk about Jordan, which has been playing a double game all these years: it also takes advantage of Israel's extreme generosity towards it - a consequence of common security interests - and takes everything Israel gives it on the mountain, and does not stop slandering and spreading lies about .
So here are the facts in the Jordanian story: In the early days of the original status quo, Jordan was no more than an employer of Waqf members, operating on the mountain as an arm of the Jordanian Ministry of Endowments.
Only after the peace agreement with it, and even more so in recent years, did Jordan become Israel's quiet (and sometimes less quiet) partner in mountain management, and it has an impact even on Israel's security conduct in the compound.
These days, for example, Jordan is demanding that Israel bring the Waqf guards back to the Jewish visitor groups on the mountain, after in recent years, those accompanying them are Israeli police officers.
The media radar missed a message a few years ago that the state gave to the High Court in this matter, according to which "all visitors to the Temple Mount are accompanied by Israeli police officers," and "Waqf members have no authority to act directly against the critics."
Jordan's impact on the Temple Mount today is enormous.
Israel has for years maintained a permanent coordination and dialogue mechanism with it on mountain matters.
In the early 2000s, she entrusted the restoration of the eastern wall and the southern wall of the mountain after cracks were discovered in them.
It succumbed to a Jordanian dictate that opposed the construction of a permanent bridge up the Mughrabi, instead of the temporary wooden bridge, which was erected after the collapse of the dirt embankment that led to the gate.
Israel also refrains from dumping construction debris and garbage that is attached in tin sheets to the "Little Western Wall" (a continuation of the Western Wall, in the center of the Muslim Quarter), all due to Jordanian opposition.
Once, at Jordan's request, a debate in the Knesset plenum was postponed, which was supposed to deal with the issue of "Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount," and today Jordan demands that we stop the silent Jewish prayers in the east of the mountain and reduce the number of Jewish visitors.
Although Israeli and Jordanian firefighters used to train together, as a joint firefighting force in the event of a mountain fire, now Jordan is aligning itself with serial fire generators on the mountain;
Hamas members, who in the past year have become its biggest competitors in the Muslim world for influence on the Temple Mount.
Although Jordan sees the special status and influence given to it on the mountain as not only an outgrowth of interests and a guarantee of governmental stability in the Hashemite Kingdom, but also a derivative of historical rights: the Hashemite dynasty lost to Saudi Arabia after World War I Consolation "in the secondary guardianship, for the holy places of Islam in Jerusalem.
But what about our historical and religious rights on the mountain, the center of Jewish life for many generations?
10 million Muslim visitors
And after all these;
After a jubilee year, in which the Muslims crushed the status quo there, the Jewish side responded with a change of its own: Jewish visits to the mountain expanded greatly.
They gave birth, with police approval and supervision, to the silent prayers on the east of the Temple Mount.
Because this change is stirring so many now, it is worth putting things in proportion: despite a 1,000% increase in the number of Jewish visitors to the mountain in the last decade (their number now reaches about 40,000 a year), the gap between 10 million and 10 million Muslim visitors a year is still huge.
For years, as is well known, Dayan's original status quo prevented Jews from praying on the Temple Mount, but allowed Jews to visit it.
In practice, however, the Jewish side has for many years refrained from implementing this permit broadly.
Its realization was very limited, until the Muslims often mistakenly thought that the State of Israel had given it up.
The minimal realization stemmed first and foremost from the position of halakhic rabbis, both ultra-Orthodox and religious-Zionists, who for many years forbade Jews to enter the mountain for halakhic reasons, whether for a visit or for prayer.
For the police, who had peace of mind on the mountain, this ruling was convenient, not to say "pampering."
Thus the last Hersh sheep that the State of Israel left to the Jews on the mountain - the right to visit the place - became a possibility that was largely theoretical.
Only a few Jews came to the mountain, mostly as tourists, mostly secular Jews.
The Muslims had only a faint connection to this minimal realization, which, as stated, stemmed mainly from internal Jewish reasons related to Jewish law.
The change took place against the background of three upheavals: the dissolution of the sweeping halakhic prohibition of rabbis from 1967 to enter the mountain.
As a result - and this is already the second upheaval - the number of religious Jews seeking to visit Mt.
The mouth that forbade is the mouth that now allowed, and Jewish publics who looked at the mountain from a distance and with blind eyes, began to frequent the mountain.
The third change, no less significant, took place at the police station, during the tenure of Gilad Ardan as Minister of Internal Security and of Yoram Halevi as the Jerusalem District Commander of the Police.
The two decided to respond to the growing demand of the Jewish public to visit the mountain and even encouraged these visits.
The side effect of the expanded visits was the silent prayers on the mountain, which continue to this day, despite Muslim protests and despite the 2015 agreements with former US Secretary of State John Kerry, which forbid Cayman.
By the way, until Hamas entered the picture last year, the Muslims on the mountain have come to terms with (even if they did not agree) with this new reality.
Conclusion (partial and temporary): In 1967, the nation-state of the Jewish people took on a colossal, enormous and almost inconceivable concession: it entrusted the holiest place to the Jewish people, at the heart of which is the Holy of Holies, in the hands of a rival religion, Islam, for which it is the place The third in his holiness only.
For many years she gave up the exercise of the right of the Jews to pray on the mountain.
The Muslims never knew how to acknowledge the favor of the Jews for the waiver, a miserable waiver for many to know.
They rewarded us for it with plots, terrorism, violence and lies.
A normal people does not keep its dreams forever, and the silent prayers on the mountain are the minimum margins of Jewish normalcy, which must be adhered to, despite the difficulty.
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