Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein that MKs should be responsible and show restraint when it comes to the issue of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman decided Thursday to recall Israel’s ambassador to Sweden Isaac Bachman to Jerusalem for consultations to protest Sweden's recognition of a Palestinian state.
A ceremony posthumously honoring Antoine Sala and his daughters Henrietta, Louise and Marie-Paule, along with her husband Giovanni Angeli, from France, as Righteous Among the Nations will take place Thursday at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
Israel has decided to prohibit access to the Temple Mount Thursday to both Muslim and Jewish worshipers and visitors until further notice, following the shooting in Jerusalem of Rabbi Yehudah Glick, a right-wing activist with the Temple Mount Faithful.
''Can there be a situation in which the Palestinian prime minister visits the Temple Mount and we disconnect from Jerusalem? That is not possible or logical,'' Likud Minister Shalom says.