Yehuda Glick Visits Temple Mount for 1st Time Since Assasination Attempt

Jerusalem, 1 March, 2016 (TPS) -- Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick visited the holiest site in Judaism on Tuesday morning, for the first time in over a year and a half during which he was refused access to the site for allegedly attacking a Muslim woman.

The charges, which Glick completely rejected, were recently withdrawn and he was acquitted, enabling him to return to the site. Glick is a long-standing advocate of freedom of worship and freedom of movement for Jews at the Temple Mount, where Jewish prayers are forbidden and access is severely restricted.

In November, 2014 Palestinian terrorist Moataz Hijazi attempted to murder Glick by shooting him several times from a short range. Glick was critically wounded, but made an unlikely recovery after which Israeli police still did not let him return to the Temple Mount until today.