TEL AVIV – An Israeli court on Monday ruled that Jewish visitors to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound may chant “Am Yisrael Chai” (“The people of Israel live”), since it constitutes a patriotic exclamation rather than a religious prayer and is therefore not in violation of the ban on uttering Jewish prayers at the holy site.
The ban on non-Muslim prayer at the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, is the result of a decades-long agreement with the Islamic Waqf, which administers the site.-- More...