'We must not surrender to threats of violence on Temple Mount'

National Union chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and asked them to permit Jews to ascent the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day.

"There is no need to talk at length about the simple obligation of the Israeli government to order the police to open the Temple Mount during regular days, and certainly on Jerusalem Day, for the entry of Jews," Smotrich wrote to Netanyahu and Erdan.