How did a minister in Netanyahu’s new government anger a chief rabbi?

Just five days after its inauguration, the new Israeli government has angered the United States and many European countries, including France, as well as its neighbors. : Tuesday, January 3 Itamar Ben Gvir, the messianic, racist and anti-Arab religious far-right symbol, He went up to the square of mosques in Jerusalem. It is the third holiest site in Islam, but also the holiest place for the Jews, who call it the Temple Mount.

Obviously, the Palestinians protested, the United States, many European countries including France, as well as the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

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But This displacement of milk is large It has even angered some ultra-Orthodox : Columnist for the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yatid Neiman He talks about a “The unnecessary and dangerous provocation that has confused the Arab world, alarmed the world and led to strong American condemnation.” ; That’s from the Sephardic newspaper Hadrush says thatAs Jews, we believe that nothing good will come from opposing the will of God..

Because in some streams of Judaism it is forbidden to climb the Temple Mount. Sephardic Israel’s chief rabbi said again this week, after Ben Gvir’s visit : The place is too sacred for the Jews to walk on. It is a sin to trample on the holy of holies and risks driving other Jews into sin. The prohibition is even written at the entrance to the holy place in both English and Hebrew, and it is impossible for Itamar Ben Gvir to have missed it!