After being prohibited from visiting Har Habayis on Monday by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, MK (Likud) Moshe Feiglin explains that for him, this was a red line. Feiglin has stopped all other activities and is concentrating on the Har Habayis issue. In a new interview he was clear in his commitment to focus on the right of Jews to visit and daven on Har Habayis, lamenting the current reality in which the prime minister of Israel acts as an agent of the Islamic Waqf Authority.
Feiglin added that “my problems regarding Har Habayis began when I became an MK,” explaining for years prior to being an MK he regularly visited Har Habayis but now, “it appears the Waqf has decided to ban me for now, as an MK, I represent Israeli sovereignty as an MK”.
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(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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his problem didn’t start when he became MK.
His problem started when he decided to ignore Chaza”l who forbid goiing up on the Har Habayis today because we are all impure.
he follows big rabbonim who clearly have established the right and the neccesity for jews to be mispallel on the most important place for am yisroel and for eretz yisroel and most important place for the enemies of the yidden
#1 It is not nice to accuse people of ignoring Chazal when you might be mistaken. See Keilim 1:8 that a zav may not go on the har habayis and to deal with this one has to go to the mikva with all the halachos, but a tamei meis may go on the har habayis as long as he does not go inside the cheil. What you meant to say was that some of the more recent poskim say not to go even where it is muttar bc. others will go further where it is assur.