Yehudah Glick says his would-be assassin disgraced Islam, while Muslim doctors give respect to their religion

Yehudah Glick and his wife at a press conference at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on November 24, 2014.

Yehudah Glick, the Temple Mount activist shot in a failed assassination attempt, left the hospital nearly a month after the attack.
At a news conference Monday at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Glick thanked those who helped to save his life and recited the blessing thanking God as “He who brings back life to the deceased.”

Glick, 49, said that his attacker told him before he pulled the trigger on October 29 outside a Jerusalem conference center that he was doing it because Glick is “an enemy of al-Aqsa,” the Temple Mount mosque.
“Anybody who shoots and kills someone in the name of his religion is the first person disgracing his religion,” Glick said.
“Those who are giving respect to Islam are those Muslim doctors and nurses who work at this hospital, helping people after they have signed the Hippocratic Oath. These are the people who are bringing respect to God and their religion, not those who murder in the name of religion.”
Glick was shot at close range in the chest and abdomen by an assailant who fled on a motorcycle. The alleged assailant, a member of Islamic Jihad who worked in the conference center’s kitchen, was killed hours later in a shootout outside his eastern Jerusalem home.
Immediately before he was shot, Glick had spoken at the center on the Jewish right to pray on the Temple Mount.

New Music Video in Solidarity with Yehuda Glick: We Will Ascend The song, "Shuv Na'aleh L'Beit Mikdashnu" (We Will Ascend Again to our Temple) dedicated to Yehuda Glick. שוב נעלה -הרב יהודה גליק

The song, "Shuv Na'aleh L'Beit Mikdashnu" (We Will Ascend Again to our Temple) dedicated to Yehuda Glick. Watch here:

Mordechai Yitzhar wrote and composed a song dedicated to Yehuda Glick's recovery.

Glick, a leading advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, was shot last Wednesday evening outside of the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. He has been in intensive care at Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center since the assassination attempt.

A prayer march for Glick will take place Thursday night. Marchers will walk from the front of the Begin Heritage Center to the gates of the Temple Mount.

Some of the song's poignant lyrics include: "Our souls burning from the inside, this Temple has been our home for generations, a house of prayer for all nations."

It includes footage from Glick's countless visits to the Temple Mount, as well as visits by MK Moshe Feiglin, who has been outspoken on the issue of Jewish prayer rights there.

Despite its status as Judaism's holiest site, Jews are forbidden by Israeli authorities from worshiping on the Temple Mount in response to Muslim pressure. Increasingly, activists have been challenging those restrictions; the video includes footage of one group which managed to smuggle a set of Arba Minim - the Four Species of plants waved during prayers on the Sukkot festival - onto the site.

The men were later arrested.

It also includes footage of Muslim harassment of Jews on the Mount, including a clip of one particularly ugly incident in which a group of hassidic children and their families were mobbed by throngs of Muslim extremists.

The song ends on an optimistic note: "We will merit in our days to see (restored) the days of yore, and the songs of the Levites will be heard in our land."

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Facebook takes down Rabbi Yehuda Glick's page

Here is what Rabbi Yehuda Glick's Facebook page used to look like:

See how utterly offensive it is?

Well, apparently Facebook thinks so. Because it now looks like this:

Apparently, sometime after Rabbi Glick was shot multiple times, Israel-haters  have been complaining to Facebook about a page belonging to a man who did not seek to take away any Muslim rights to pray on the Temple Mount - but only to give Jews the same rights the Muslims have.

Of course, they just told Facebook that Glick's (Hebrew!) page was offensive. And Facebook drones assumed it must be true -because so many complained!

Meanwhile, Rabbi Glick's condition is slightly but steadily improving.

(h/t NRG via Bob K and Yenta P)

Temple Mount Assassination, Intimidation & Religious Freedom

Rabbi Yehuda Glick has been a friend to me since I was 18 years old. Less than a day has gone by since he was shot 4 times at point blank by a terrorist from the Islamic Jihad. This is my personal message inspired by a friend who has dedicated his life and risked his life fighting for the religious freedoms of all people to pray on the Temple Mount.

We must not be intimidated for soon Jerusalem will be a House of Prayer for all nations.

Jeremy Gimpel

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In reaction to the attempted assassination of Rabbi Yehuda Glick, we must ask ourselves shouldn’t all people from all faiths and nationalities be aloud to pray wherever and however they want in Israel. The corner stone of Democracy is freedom of religion and we must not be intimidated by terrorists. We must stand up for our rights to be a free people and stand up for the freedoms all people. This is Jeremy Gimpel’s personal message inspired by his longtime friend, Yehuda Glick.

Pastor Kicked off the Temple Mount--Enough is Enough!

A Christian minister who was forced off of the Temple Mount by Muslim officials has released a video of support for Jewish rights on the TempleMount, urging Jews and "the children of Abraham" throughout the world to stand together to end Islamist harassment and discriminatory measures on Judaism's holiest site.

Pastor Keith Johnson told how he recently visited the holy site in Jerusalem when he bumped into veteran Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick. But his warm greeting for one of the leaders of the struggle for Jewish prayer rights on the Mount attracted the attention of the Waqf - the Islamic trust which administers the site and has been behind the pressure to continue a ban on non-Muslim worship there.

Angry Waqf officials surrounded the pastor and forced his group off of theTemple Mount - but he defiantly went back to the entrance and ascended once more. The irony is that Jews who are forced off the Mount by the Waqf are usually banned from reentering.

In the video, aired at a special Temple Mount conference Jerusalem's Menachem Begin Heritage Center yesterday, Johnson called on "my Jewish friends to work together in the spirit of past peaceful protests, and to be resolved not to give in, even in the midst of yelling, cussing, spitting and throwing rocks."

"As an American pastor I am appalled by the actions of some Muslims who chastise Jewish visitors - including children - who desire to ascend theTemple Mount," he declared.

In a show of solidarity for the Jewish people, he began and ended his address in Hebrew, and wished activists "success from the God of Abraham as you continue your struggle to attain freedom to pray on theTemple Mount."

Despite its supreme importance to Jews as the site of the two Holy Temples of Jerusalem, non-Muslim visitors are banned from praying there and face arrest if suspected of doing so. Visibly Jewish visitors are subjected to particularly rigorous checks for "forbidden religious items", which many describe as discriminatory and humiliating, and religious groups are closely monitored both by Waqf officials and Israeli police.

Jewish groups often face blanket bans from ascending altogether, and Islamist groups regularly riot or engage in organized campaigns of harassment of Jewish visitors, in order to prevent Jews from ascending. The recent Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover) saw particularly severe riots by Hamas-affiliated groups on the Temple Mount - triggering calls forthe resignation of Israel's Internal Security Minister and prompting Tuesday's conference.

Yehudah Glick on the Temple Mount