Jewish narrative Hanna Issa, the head of the High Islamic-Christian Committee in Jerusalem, warned that Israel wants to change the history of Jerusalem to conform with the Jewish narrative. Please contact us for subscription options. Yasser Arafat's nephew renews accusation of Israeli role in Palestinian icon's death.
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After a little over a year there, Muslims believe God instructed Muhammad to face back toward Mecca for prayers. Nonetheless, Jerusalem and its sacred locales — specifically Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock — have remained sites of Islamic pilgrimage for 15 centuries. Under the Preservation of the Holy Places Law , the Israeli government has also allowed entry to different religious groups — such as Christian pilgrims.
Many Israelis respect the sanctity of the place as the holiest site in Judaism. Nonetheless, certain ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups controversially advocate for greater access and control of the site , seeking to reclaim the historic Temple Mount, in order to rebuild the Temple.
On Sept. This sparked protests and a violent crackdown by Israeli authorities, with multiple casualties. And the Israeli activist group Peace Now warned the project might alarm Muslims since the new route and size of the bridge three times the original ramp would increase non-Muslim traffic to the Mount. Indeed, when Israel began a legally required archaeological survey of the planned construction site, Palestinians and Arab Israelis joined in a chorus of protest.
They claimed the Israeli excavations—although conducted several yards outside the walls of the sacred compound—threatened the foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. For the time being, non-Muslim visitors continue to use the temporary wooden bridge that has been in place for seven years. Such disputes inevitably send ripples throughout the international community. And in November , the Palestinian Authority created a diplomatic kerfuffle when it published a study declaring the Western Wall was not a Jewish holy site at all, but part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Today, the scene is calm. At various spots on the wide, leafy plaza Palestinian men gather in study groups, reading the Koran. We ascend steps toward the magnificent Dome of the Rock—which was built during the same period as the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the south, between A.
Its provenance remains a subject of debate among historians, pitting the majority, who claim early Muslims built it, against those who insist it is a Byzantine Christian structure.
But other historians counter that the eastern entrance to the Mount, where the Golden Gate was built, was important to the Byzantines because their interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew holds that Jesus entered the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives to the east when he joined his disciples for the Passover meal.
And in A. Fifteen years later, after defeating the Persians, Heraclius, a Byzantine emperor, is said to have brought the True Cross back to the holy city—passing from the Mount of Olives to the Temple Mount, and then to the Holy Sepulchre. In addition, Barkay has found archival photographs taken during renovations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the late s that appear to reveal Byzantine mosaics beneath the structure—further evidence that some sort of public building had been constructed at the site.
After the war his father—who had spent a year in a Nazi forced labor camp in Ukraine—established the first Israeli delegation in Budapest, and the family emigrated to Israel in Barkay earned his doctorate in archaeology at Tel Aviv University. In , exploring a series of ancient burial caves in an area of Jerusalem above the Valley of Hinnom, he made a remarkable discovery: two 2,year-old silver scrolls delicately etched with the priestly blessing that Aaron and his sons bestowed on the children of Israel, as mentioned in the Book of Numbers.
Barkay and I get into my car and drive toward Mount Scopus. He shrugs. You can do it to the right, to the left, on the face of an Arab or a Jew. Still, some criticism of Barkay stems not from politics but from skepticism about his methodology. Natsheh is not the only archaeologist to raise questions about the value of artifacts not found in situ. The dirt excavated by the Waqf is landfill from previous eras. Collectively, he says, the landfill includes artifacts from all periods of the site. But Israeli archaeologist Danny Bahat told the Jerusalem Post that, since the dirt was filler, the layers do not represent a meaningful chronology.
Barkay, not surprisingly, rejects this suggestion, citing the frequent finds of Ottoman glazed wall-tile fragments from the Dome of the Rock, dating back to the 16th century, when Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent repaired and beautified the shrine. For instance, the opus sectile pieces Barkay found in the soil were precisely the same—in terms of material, shape and dimensions—as those that Herod used in palaces at Jericho, Masada and Herodium.
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