Tens of thousands of Muslims joined Ramadan festivities, praying in Al Aqsa mosque – a Muslim structure that occupies the Temple Mount. Israel bars Jews from praying at the Temple Mount.
Top Israeli archaeologists petitioned the leftist Supreme Court to stop the destruction of the Second Temple ruins by Muslims digging a 450-yard-long construction trench over the Temple Mount. Moshe Dayan gave the Temple Mount to Muslims after the Jewish victory of 1967, saying that he doesn’t want the second (Jewish) Vatican.


