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The Temple Mount today. June 19, 2007 by admin. The Dome of the Rock sits on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The First Temple, built by Solomon, stood on more or less the same spot, on high ground which sloped southward down the valley. After the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians, the Jewish population was exiled to Babylon ...
The temple was reconstructed and there then followed a number of invasions and conquests culminating in the rebuilding of the temple (the Second Temple) on a larger scale by Herod, at which time the Temple Mount was constructed as a broad plaza over a series of arches, surrounded by supporting retaining walls.
The end. Theodor Herzl died of heart failure in 1904, aged 44. In the final years of his life people said of him that he looked many years older than his actual age. He gave his life to Judaism and he gave it willingly. He impressed person after person, both friends and oponents, with the integrity of his mission.
History. The Jews became a people in the desert at Mount Sinai, following the exodus from Eqypt. After their long period of wandering in the desert they conquered and inhabited an area that somewhat roughly corresponds with modern-day Israel, Lebanon, and part of Jordan. That period began with the conquest in about 1270BCE under Joshuah’s ...
The situation in Hebron today. The role of the army and police in Hebron area H2 is to protect the settlers. As part of a greater plan implemented throughout the West Bank, this translates into separating the Palestinians from the Jews. To this end the army has made a buffer zone between the Jews and the Palestinians.
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Today the 29th January, it is windy and bitingly cold, despite the sun. And the cats about the town seemed to have a kind of measured alertness in their stride. And others were sitting warming themselves in quiet spots, like this one.
So today, when I saw this postbox set in the wall in front of a building near here, I was carried back to those days when I was a small child. The lettering on the flap above the slot, reads ‘POST OFFICE’, or at least I can read the word POST and the last two letters of the next word, so I expect that is what it reads.
Israel today Any statements made to describe Israel today and to explain how Israel came to be as it is, are bound to be the subject of debate. Some questions are more intractable than others. The resurgence in religious observance is perhaps intractable without taking a metaphysical dimension into account.
I wrote this in 2017 after reading about buses in Jerusalem that were to be men only, or parts of buses that were to be men only.