For thousands of years the Temple Mount has been the Jewish people's holiest site.
Unfortunately, in this holy place Jewish civil rights and Israeli sovereignty are violated daily.
We have filed a petition with the Supreme Court of Israel to stop these violations of civil rights and sovereignty.
The rights of diaspora Jews are being violated no less than the rights of Israeli citizens and on the from below you can become a partner in our petition.
Below is information regarding the rights violations and the petition:
1. Out of nine entrance gates to the Temple Mount Jews (and all other non-Muslims) are allowed entrance to only one, and even at this gate Jews are subjected to serious discrimination.
Jews must stand in a separate line and are subjected to a special security check which is often demeaning in nature.
The hours that the Temple Mount is open to non-Muslims is strictly limited, and even during these limited hours the number of Jews allowed on the Temple Mount at any given time is severely restricted while the number of non-Jews is not limited in any way.
Rarely is more than one group of up to 25 Jews allowed on the Temple Mount simultaneously.
Jews are not allowed freedom of movement, being forced to walk on a restricted path, while stopping along the way is allowed in just a few places and only for minutes at a time.
Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount are forbidden to bring with them written material of any kind,.
Jewish groups are subjected to constant escort, surveillance, scrutiny and filming by Israeli police and the Moslem Wakf. Jews "caught" moving their lips are forced to leave the Temple Mount for "fear" they might be praying.
Jews are forbidden to drink from water fountains on the Temple Mount, and more and more...
2. The petition to the Supreme Court was filed on the eighth day of Hannukah, January 1st, 2017, and the State was ordered by the Court to respond by February 16th, 2017. The State did not reply to the suit on the date requested by the court and during the ensuing two and a half months the State requested and was granted by the court five (!) delays. On May 3rd, 2017 the State finally submitted their summary response to the Supreme Court. It is important to note that the State did not deny in their response the discriminatory actions as described in the suit but attempted to justify them as being essential for "preserving security and social order." The court set the date for deliberations on January 18th, 2018 and is allowing us to respond to the State's reply by January 8th, 2018. In our response we will attempt to bring further proof that the discriminatory policies against the Jews on the Temple Mount as brought in the suit are not related to security concerns, nor are they a legitimate response to security concerns in so far as they exist, and are therefore illegal. We will attach our response on the aforementioned date, and until then we will continue documenting the discriminatory practices against us while continuing to generate additional support for our suit from the public.
3. It is crucial for us to send a clear and strong message to the Supreme Court that growing numbers of Jews within Israel and throughout the diaspora are no longer willing to be subjected to such demeaning discrimination in the holiest site of the Jewish people. A joint protest of tens of thousands of Jews from Israel and the diaspora will succeed in placing the issue high on the public agenda in a way that has not been previously achieved.
Please join us. Your voice is crucial and it will be heard.
In this the Jubilee year of Jerusalem's reunification there must be a declaration of freedom to the Jewish people on the Temple Mount.
A link to the full text of the petition to the Supreme Court (Hebrew):
http://bit.do/atira