Temple Mount Faithful

The Temple Mount and Israel Faithful Movement (Hebrew: נאמני הר הבית וארץ ישראל), more commonly known simply as the Temple Mount Faithful (נאמני הר הבית), is a Jerusalemite Orthodox Jewish-led extremist movement,, whose goal is to rebuild the Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, or on the modern-day City of David perhaps in Jerusalem, the State of Palestine and [re] institute Korban.

 History 
Former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer and Middle Eastern studies lecturer Gershon Sholomo founded the group. 

On 8 October 1990, seventeen Palestinian people were killed and over 100 others injured by Israeli Border Police in the 1990 Temple Mount riots triggered by an announcement by the Temple Mount Faithful that they were going to lay a cornerstone for a Third Temple or a synagogue. 

After the riots, the police prohibited Salomon from entering the Temple Mount. Israel's High Court of Justice denied his appeal.

The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful was the one of the first significant groups to advocate the Jewish rights at the Temple Mount, and during the 1970s and 1980s, it remained the most visible group with that position. 

Although, the group used to present its argument largely in terms of nationalistic, rather than religious, symbolism the way the Temple Institute did. 

In a 1983 interview, Shlomoh stated that "whoever controls the Temple Mount has rights over the Land of Israel". 

Over time, Gershon Salomon developed a more religiously oriented apocalyptic and messianic platform, which, however, was distinctly secular and non-Orthodox Jewish in character. 

Tensions with the more Orthodox elements in the group caused a formal split in 1987, when more Torah-centred splinters splintered from the Temple Mount and Israel Faithful, forming what is called the "Movement for the Establishment of the Temple". Subsequently, the influence of the Temple Mount Faithful among the radical Jewish activists gradually waned, although the group still retains significant visibility.

 Death of Gershon Solomon 
On November 23, 2022, Gershon Salomon, founder of  the Temple Mount Faithful, died. 

Although banned from the Temple Mount for many years, he was allowed to make one visit during the last year of his life.

 Related pages 
 Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount
 The Temple Institute
 Oslo Accords
 Israel Defense Forces
 Wye River Memorandum
 Palestinian National Security Forces

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