They, unlike him, ARE Zionists.
A couple other points- about the article itself:
1. Nadav Shragai should know that this isn`t a "deviation from the general halakhic rabbinical consensus". Consensus itself is changing.
2. The Rambam (Maimonides) himself ascended and prayed there, as did the Radbaz. Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Shlomo Goren, himself prayed on the Temple Mount in 1967 too. Rav Goren held that Jews are COMMANDED to pray on Har Habayit and even made a map of where Jews are permitted. |
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