Ramadan

Currently, only men age 55 and older, women age 50 and older, and children up to age 12 are allowed to visit the Temple Mount.

Police said mass prayer on al-Aqsa ended on Friday afternoon with no irregular incidents, after Israel limited the number entering from the West Bank.

Unfortunately, in recent years, the month of Ramadan in Israel has become a period marked by tension. Instead of preserving the values of compassion, extremist elements exploit the month.

EMTs and paramedics have pronounced a 70-year-old male dead and are treating four patients.

This war is not about religion – it is about who truly values life. And that is a battle Israel will always fight and always win.

The police are also focused on the terrorists who were released to neighborhoods in east Jerusalem as part of the current hostage-prisoner exchange.

Israel Police noted that terrorists exploit Ramadan to “incite and disseminate misleading narratives about events in Jerusalem, especially in the Old City and on the Temple Mount.”

Ramadan often presents a security challenge in Jerusalem, but this may be greater this year given the ongoing seven-front war and Operation Iron Wall in the West Bank.

While Israel reduced the intensity of its war effort against Hamas over Ramadan over respect for the Muslim holy month, the Iranian-backed axis often escalates during Jewish holidays.

Even amid the war between Israel and Hamas the conflict has not morphed into a more calamitous religious war between Muslims and Jews.