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Deputy Minister of Religious Services Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan feels that anyone whose rav permits visiting Har Habayis can and should do so to daven on the holy site. The deputy minister explains his ministry is preparing regulations that will permit everyone to daven on Har Habayis and he is hopeful that the prime minister will see to it that these regulations are implemented to permit freedom of religion for all.

Ben-Dahan speaks of the religious discrimination against Jews and this he explains is not reasonable and unacceptable.

It must be noted that according to the Poskei Hador one is absolutely forbidden to visit the Har Habayis, and there is an Issur Kares for one that goes there.

Five years ago on Sukkos, President Shimon Peres paid a visit to the Sukka of Maran HaGaon Rav Elyashiv ZATZAL, where Rav Elyashiv called on the President to prevent Jews from visiting Har Habayis, stating it is an act that that is viewed as extremely provocative by the goyim. Maran stated everything possible must be done to avoid a religious war, and the provocateurs are playing with fire.

Maran is quoted as explaining to the president that Halacha forbids going onto Har Habayis but today, it is more than this, it is an act that may lead to a religious war and bloodshed.

Ben-Dahan

American Pastor Keith Johnson speaks on the matter of Har Habayis too as he was recently thrown off the site as well.

Pastor Kicked Off Har Habayis – Enough is Enough!

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)