Yehuda Glick, member of Temple Mount Faithful, hospitalized; perpetrator flees scene on motorcycle
A prominent right-wing activist was seriously injured Wednesday evening when he was shot outside the Jerusalem’s Begin Center following a conference about the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the head of the Temple Mount Faithful organization, was shot at least three times by an unidentified assailant wearing a helmet, who police said fled the scene on a motorcycle. The Israel Police put up roadblocks and are searching the area for the perpetrator.
Glick had finished a speech at a conference at the Begin Center, entitled “Israel returns to the Temple Mount.” Eyewitnesses said that after the event a man with an Arabic accent approached Glick and asked him for his identity. The man then shot the victim, got on the motorcycle and fled.
A prominent right-wing activist was seriously injured Wednesday evening when he was shot outside the Jerusalem’s Begin Center following a conference about the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the head of the Temple Mount Faithful organization, was shot at least three times by an unidentified assailant wearing a helmet, who police said fled the scene on a motorcycle. The Israel Police put up roadblocks and are searching the area for the perpetrator.
Glick had finished a speech at a conference at the Begin Center, entitled “Israel returns to the Temple Mount.” Eyewitnesses said that after the event a man with an Arabic accent approached Glick and asked him for his identity. The man then shot the victim, got on the motorcycle and fled.
Glick was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in serious condition. Police and hospital officials could not immediately confirm the identity of the victim to the Times of Israel.
Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, who was at the event, said the incident was “terrible but quite expected,” Ynet reported.
“Yehuda Glick was threatened all the time. The fact that permanent security was not assigned to him is a failure,” he said.
Feiglin also said he would go up to the Temple Mount on Thursday at 8 a.m.
Fellow right-wing MK Miri Regev was also at the event.
Housing Minister Uri Ariel, a proponent of a Jewish presence in east Jerusalem, said that the bullets fired at Glick “were aimed at all Jews who wish to pray on the Temple Mount,” i24 news reported. He also demanded open Jewish access to the site in response.
Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem set off fireworks in celebration.
Menachem Begin Heritage Center (Photo credit:
CC BY-SA 3.0 by Deror Avi/ Wikimedia Commons)
Several dozen Israelis demonstrated outside the Begin Center Wednesday night, wrapping themselves in Israeli flags and calling on police to “eliminate terror.”
US-born Yehuda Glick previously worked as the executive director of the Temple Institute, an organization that prepares vessels and garments for a future Jewish temple, before joining the Temple Mount Faithful.
Glick was arrested last October, and barred by police from the Temple Mount, according to the Forward. The decision was reversed after a 12-day hunger strike.
“I believe that the Temple Mount represents a place that has potential for being an international center for religious tolerance,” he told the Forward.
The circumstances of the incident remained unclear, but the prevailing suspicion is that the attempted murder was politically motivated.
29/10/2014 en THE TIMES OF ISRAEL.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/man-shot-seriously-injured-outside-jerusalems-begin-center/
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