Jerusalem – Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick is slated to become the next MK for the Likud party after Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon announced his resignation from the ministry and the Knesset Friday morning.
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Glick is a controversial figure in both the religious and political sphere in Israel, becoming the face of the Jewish struggle for prayer rights at the Temple Mount, the most sacred holy site in Judaism and third holiest in Islam.
His activism almost lead to his death in late 2014, when he sustained four gunshot wounds outside the Menchem Begin Hermitage Center in Jerusalem from the gun of convicted Palestinian terrorist Moataz Hejazi.
Hejazi was killed in a shootout with police in the Abu Tor neighborhood shortly after the event. Hejazi, 32, was a member of Islamic Jihad who served 11-and-a-half years in prison for nationalistic crimes.
The flashpoint religious site has been at the center of escalating tensions between Arabs and Jews over the past several months.
Beggining last September, a series of confrontations between Israel Security Forces and Palestinian youths over Jewish prayer at the holy site led to accusations that Israel was upending the status quo and “provoking” unrest.
What followed was a months-long wave of violence in the form of stabbing attacks, deadly car-rammings and shootings among others.
Zionist Union MK Yael Cohen-Peran said she would boycott the swearing-in of Glick, saying that an ethical man is being replaced by a dangerous extremist.
Very bad decision, instead of taking a normal relaxed politician they taking a violent extremist who is responsible for a lot Jewish blood in the past 2 years? pls cry & fight it now & listen to all almunis-ysomim before its too late.
Yaalon didn’t resign, he was ousted. His cruel refusal to allow a father who’s incarcerated for absolutely no reason to attend his first son’s bris was the straw that broke the camel’s back. He should have been thrown out after he compared holy Jews to Nazis. These secular officials think they can behave towards Jews however they want.
Sharon’s cruelty got him into a coma for 8 years and subsequently his death where only a handful attended his funeral and Yaalon’s cruelty forfeited his job.
This is good, I hope to see Meir Ettinger in the Knesset as well, glad to be rid of that Communist Yaalon.
good to see other intelligent non-blooding heart liberals on this post like #2 and #5 . Let Yaalon go back to his Marxist, atheist kibbutz. We will have our Torah and REAL Zionists heroes like Kahane and Ettinger. Maybe we can free the framed (and tortured) Duma “arson” boys?
Kol hakavod!! Wonderfull good news Boruch Hashem
Chazak veematz Yehuda
And good ridance to Nazi Boogie Yalon
The table has suddenly changed
Wow unbelievable
Yaalon went from being alive to being politically dead and Glick from being physically almost-dead to being politically alive.
Some of you are no better than any of the Jihadist who doesn’t care about humanity. You support the extreme right-wingers in Israel and here in the States.
Very bad decision, instead of taking a normal relaxed politician they taking a violent extremist who is responsible for a lot Jewish blood in the past 2 years? pls cry & fight it now & listen to all almunis-ysomim before its too late.