ERETZ ISRAEL: Muslim Shoots Temple Mount Rabbi in Jerusalem

Muslim Shoots Temple Mount Rabbi in Jerusalem, “an attack in the heart of Jerusalem against a public figure crosses a red line of blood.”

A pious Rabbi whose righteous work made him a target was shot outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. Muslims were shooting fireworks in Jerusalem’s Old City in celebration of the assassination attempt on Glick’s life, just like after 9/11. It’s what they do. Rabbi Glick was attending a conference that was directly tied to his activism in the fight to allow Jews to pray at the most holy site in Jewish history — the Temple Mount. So the assassination was an Islamic message to the Jews.

The event, “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount,” was attended by MKs and notable activists, among them Deputy Minister Eli Ben Dahan, MK Moshe Feiglin, MK Miri Regev and Hagai Ben Artzi — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law.

“The writing was on the wall, the ceiling and the windows. Every Jew who goes up to the Temple Mount is a target for violence,” said MK Moshe Feiglin.

UPDATE: From Moishe Feiglin:

The Temple Mount movement held a conference tonight at the Begin Center in Jerusalem. MK Moshe Feiglin had spoken and left the Begin Center. At the end of the conference, Head of the Temple Mount Movement, Rabbi Yehudah Glick, accompanied by Manhigut Yehudit General Director Shai Malka, walked outside to his car. There was a motorcyclist with his helmet on standing there. He turned to Rabbi Yehuda in a thick Arabic accent, made sure of his identity and then shot him three times point blank. Rabbi Glick is in emergency surgery, in serious condition. Please pray for the speedy recovery of Yehuda Yehoshua ben Rivka Ita Brenda.

MK Moshe Feiglin: The writing was and is still engraved on every possible wall. The flaccidity of the defense forces and Minister for Internal Security Aharonovitz in the face of the constant Arab violence against Jews on the Temple Mount – coupled with persecution of Jews on the Mount and the prohibition against Jewish prayer there – encourage further violence and have brought about this attempted murder. The most important response to this despicable act is to open the Temple Mount to Jews and to remove the prohibition against Jewish prayer there. I will be at the Temple Mount tomorrow morning at 8:00.

Algemeiner reports:

“BREAKING: Gunman Shoots, Critically Injures Israeli Temple Mount Activist.” October 29, 2014, By Anav Silverman / Tazpit News Agency

A well-known Temple Mount activist was seriously wounded in a shooting on Derech Hevron Street in Jerusalem late Wednesday night and is being treated for serious wounds in Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital. Rabbi Yehuda Glick, 49, of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation was shot at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. He had been speaking at a Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement event held at the center annually. A Jerusalem District spokesman said the gunman was on a motorcycle. According to Aaron Adler, a MDA paramedic who arrived on scene, Rabbi Glick was still conscious. “We found a man suffering from a number of gunshot wounds in the upper part of his body. We provided him with immediate medical treatment and admitted him for emergency treatment at the hospital with the victim in critical condition.” Rabbi Glick is the director of Haliba, which advocates for Jewish civil rights on the Temple Mount. The organization’s mission statement says that its goal is to “bring together a diverse group of Jewish Israeli – secular, haredi, traditional, national religious, men and women – who are united in their concern of the inability of Jews to freely ascent the Mount to pray…” Israeli Knesset Minister Naftali Bennett responded to the terror attack, commenting that, “an attack in the heart of Jerusalem against a public figure crosses a red line of blood.”

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Glick is a central activist in Temple Mount movements and a symbol of the struggle for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Police and the Shin Bet have often barred Glick from the Temple Mount and he has been fighting legal battles against Israeli law enforcement authorities against these bans, some of which have been successful.

At the conference on Wednesday night, Glick presented a video filmed on the Temple Mount on Wednesday morning that shows Palestinians trying to scare the Jewish visitors away with “Allahu Akbar” calls. “This is the situation in Jerusalem today,” he said.

MK Feiglin gave a witness account to the police, and later told reporters: “The would-be killer turned to (Glick), confirmed in Hebrew with a thick Arab accent that this was indeed Yehuda and shot several bullets at him from point blank.”

“The writing was on the wall, the ceiling and the windows. Every Jew who goes up to the Temple Mount is a target for violence,” said Feiglin, who pledged to visit the Temple Mount on Thursday morning, a move seen as a provocation by Palestinians. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has recently called for Jews to be banned from the site.

Feiglin told Ynet earlier:”What happened is horrible but very expected. Glick was constantly threatened. The fact that he was not assigned protection at all times is a failure. I say this as someone who is the target of constant incitement. Weakness and incompetence were behind this attack. This was a relaxed conference, the room was half full. This was not an impassioned event. An Arab came there with the urge to kill.”

Shai Malka, Feiglin’s spokesman, recounted the moments just before the attack: “I stood next to him. The conference was over and he went outside to load his car. Next to it stood a Palestinian motorcyclist wearing black. I saw his gun and I yelled to the woman with me ‘run, escape.’ We started running. The Palestinian said to him: ‘Sorry, I have to do this,’ and shot him.”

MK Regev spoke at the conference on Wednesday and left the event a few minutes prior to the shooting. “It was a quiet conference about the rights of Jews to come to the Temple Mount and pray there,” she said. “An attack in the center of Jerusalem close to the Menachim Begin Heritage Center is an escalation of attacks on personal security. Whoever does not fight for security there, will in return get terror in all of Israel.”

Deputy Minister Dahan left the conference about an hour before the shooting: “I spoke about the security situation in Jerusalem, and said the lack of control and order marks the loss of our sovereignty in the capitol. If the situation is deteriorates we will lose power.”

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said of the assassination attempt: “Something has happened in Israel. An assassination attempt in the heart of Jerusalem on a public figure is a crossing of a red line drawn in blood. Security is not brought with words but with deeds, and I call on the prime minister to restore the sovereignty of Israel and its capitol and immediately.”

A Magen David Adom paramedic, Aharon Adler, that treated Glick, said, “When we arrived at the scene was saw a 50-year-old man lying on the ground, he was conscious and suffered several gunshot wounds to his upper body. We quickly took him to the hospital in serious condition. At the hospital he was sedated, attached to a respirator and taken to surgery.”

Right-wing activist Yehuda Etzion, a friend of Glick’s, was at the conference and, upon hearing of the assassination attempt, arrived at the hospital.

“I was at the conference until it ended and then I left, while Yehuda (Glick) remained behind. I got back to Ofra and heard of the incident, so I came here,” he said.

Etzion said Glick has been receiving both direct and indirect threats for the past two years “by the waqf’s men and the Islamic Movement.”

“They incite against him and they’re organized in their intelligence collection. They circulated photos of him with a target on his face,” Etzion went on to say.

Palestinians were shooting fireworks in Jerusalem’s Old City in celebration of the assassination attempt on Glick’s life.

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