"Israel should have come and said 'The place is ours, the city is ours, this is the site of our Temple,'" stresses Dr. Mordechai Kedar.
Gilad Erdan's comments were made after Hamas launched rockets towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
In the West Bank, Israeli troops killed four Palestinians during raids, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said. Two of the dead were identified by militant factions as their members.
What empowers Hamas and allows it to thrive is that too many have accepted their corruption of the teachings of a world religion.
Over 4,200 Jewish pilgrims have visited the Temple Mount so far during the Sukkot holiday.
The leader of Hezbollah warned against al-Aqsa becoming "a Jewish synagogue."
Jews made the pilgrimage to the Temple Mount as part of Rosh Hashanah celebrations on Sunday evening accompanied by heavy security detail.
The introduction of Saudi Arabia to the Temple Mount will only strengthen the feeling of Muslims that Jews have no connection to Jerusalem and the whole country.
The Jerusalem resident was injured in clashes that erupted amid the tensions leading up to Operation Guardian of the Walls.
The Dead Sea and Jerusalem are on The Travel's list of the top 10 best places to visit in the Middle East.
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