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MK (Likud) Yehuda Glick on Wednesday, 5 Cheshvan, visited Har Habayis after receiving special permission from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to do so. The occasion is the chasenah of his son Shlomo on Wednesday night.

Gedolei Yisrael over the generations and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel prohibit visiting Har Habayis, which they explain carries the punishment of karess.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)