"Jews must stop Temple Mount visits" Sephardi chief rabbi.

"Jews must stop Temple Mount visits" Sephardi chief rabbi.(TOI).

Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Friday called on Jews to stop their attempts to visit Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, in order to restore calm to the capital after weeks of violence and religious clashes surrounding the holy site

“We need to stop the incitement provoked by people going to the Temple Mount,” Yitzhak said at the funeral of 17-year-old Shalom Ba’adani, who was critically injured in Wednesday’s car attack in Jerusalem and died of his wounds Friday.

“Jews must not go to the Temple Mount and provoke the Arab terrorists,” he said. “This must be stopped…only in this manner shall the blood of the people of Israel stop being spilt.”

Yosef reiterated the belief held by many senior Jewish figures that visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, was forbidden by God.

“Fourth-rate rabbis cannot dispute (the rulings of) the sages of Israel,” Yosef stated.

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