Ahead of the Lag B’Omer celebrations on Wednesday night, Tzfat (Safed) Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu spoke to Arutz Sheva about the spiritual awakening of the Jewish nation in Israel – and declared the “next step” in that process is to control the Temple Mount. The Mount, which was the site of the First and Second Temples and is the holiest site in Judaism, remains under the de facto control of the Jordanian Waqf despite having been liberated in the 1967 Six Day War.
The Waqf bans Jews from praying at the site and imposes harsh limitations and discrimination at the holy site. Rabbi Eliyahu began by talking about the massive festivities at Meron, located in the north near Tzfat, where multitudes of Jews turn out on Lag B’Omer to commemorate the day of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s (Rashbi) passing at his grave. READ MORE
Depriving Israel of their holy places in which history confirms is the worst thing anybody can do to a fellow human being of which no other religion will accept it that their holy places of worship or their ancestral graves is forcefully taken away from them. I suggest that UN should reconsider and give Israel their rightful position and possessions. thank you.