Official justification given by Manama is scheduling conflict, but official says far-right minister's visit to flashpoint site was actual reason

Minister, other lawmakers ascend to flashpoint site without incident; 16 Jewish visitors, 2 Arabs arrested over disturbances; record numbers said to tour site on fast day

Rebuke is an escalation in the rhetoric around ultranationalist minister's pilgrimages to the site in defiance of rulings by some rabbis

Newly declassified response to Clinton proposal under PM Ehud Barak shows Jerusalem was willing to accept Palestinian sovereignty in much of Temple Mount as basis for peace talks

PM's aides rush to do damage control after Smotrich reported to be aiming for 1 million settlers and IDF revokes order barring Israelis from return to evacuated Homesh settlement

State Department slams far-right minister for politicizing holy site with visit meant to show Israeli muscle; move paving way for resurrection of Homesh outpost also panned

Jordan pans 'provocative, obscene step' by far-right police minister, who urges more funds for Jewish settlement in Negev and Galilee to show Israel is sovereign there too

Most ruling party members have long-shunned visits to the holy site, both for security and religious reasons, but a new breed of Likud MKs are following the lead of the far-right

Chair of UTJ's Degel HaTorah faction Moshe Gafni says diplomatic, security fallout must be taken into consideration; pans visits to holy site as sacrilege, not sign of sovereignty

Otzma Yehudit minister, lawmakers from PM's Likud among hundreds of visitors to compound; Likud's Bitan says Netanyahu could've told them not to go: 'People have become extremists'