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posal to build a synagogue at what is
perhaps the most sensitive site in the
Middle East — Jerusalem's Temple
Mount.
Instead, the council, which is the
top policy-making body for Israel's
Orthodox establishment, appointed
a special committee on Monday to
study the matter.
In an indication of how charged
the proposal is, the grand mufti of
Jerusalem, the senior Islamic official
there, warned that building the syn-
agogue would start a war "that only
God knows where it would lead."
The site of the First and Second
Temples, the Temple Mount is now
where the Al-Aksa Mosque and
Dome of the Rock shrine are locat-
ed. It is regarded as the third holiest
site in Islam.
The synagogue proposal was
made by the chief rabbi of Haifa,
Sha'ar Yishuv Cohen, a longtime
supporter of letting Jews pray at the
Temple Mount. He is reported to
have evidence that a synagogue
existed there following the destruc-
tion of the Temples.
The Chief Rabbinical Council
said Monday that it still supports a
religious ruling barring Jews from
entering the Temple Mount.
Because the exact location of the
original Temples is not known, the
ruling was issued because of biblical
injunctions about maintaining ritual
purity when entering the holy site.
While Monday's deliberations
were of a religious nature, they were
also politically delicate, given that
the issue of control over Jerusalem
and its holy sites was what caused
the recent Camp David summit to
end in disagreement.
One of the proposals reportedly
raised at the failed summit was to
grant the Palestinians administrative
control over the Temple Mount.
Earlier Monday, Israel Radio
reported that a senior Israeli official
had asked that the rabbinical council
cancel its planned meeting because
of the political sensitivity of the
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