Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, who heads Jerusalem's Temple Institute, was outraged, Wednesday, over police refusal to allow hundreds - including cabinet ministers and Knesset members - to go up to the Temple Mount in solidarity with relatives of murdered 13-year-old Hallel Ariel of Kiryat Arba'. Noting that Jews had free access right after the Six Day War, he lamented that Arab rioters are circulating the holy site.
Interviewed by Arutz Sheva, Rabbi Ariel was happy at the interest expressed by the young generation, including soldiers among the hundreds who sought to go up to the mount. He said they were paving the way for change and will effect it, as youth did during Second Temple days.