Israel - Oct 31

Tensions continue to build around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as fears of a third intifada grow. The Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the shooting of Rabbi Glick, a prominent advocate for Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount, as he attempted to pray at the site. The Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount has historically been off limits to Jewish worshippers as a way to limit violence between Jews and Muslims, who considerable the site to be the third holiest in Islam. However, what was once a fringe opinion has become mainstream in Israel as larger segments of Israeli society and more cabinet members have called for the Jewish right to pray at the Temple Mount. After the shooting of Rabbi Glick, Israeli officials closed the Al Aksa mosque, an act PA President Mahmoud Abbas called “an act of war.” The assassination attempt continues a cycle of escalation started in June, when three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped from Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, and murdered. Source: The Jerusalem Post