Tensions mount

By THE DATA TEAM

a campaign by messianic activists and other Jewish hardliners to change the religious status quo on the Temple Mount, site of the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. At the moment, Jews pray at its foot, by the Western (formerly Wailing) Wall. The esplanade above is the Haram al-Sharif (“Noble Sanctuary”), the third-holiest site in Islam, with the al-Aqsa mosque and the gold-capped Dome of the Rock.