Itamar Ben-Gvir

3 days ago - Ben-Gvir has led several visits to the Temple Mount as an activist and member of Knesset, as well as contentious marches through Jerusalem's Old City Muslim Quarter.

August 30, 2024 - Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount this month, his demand to allow Jews to pray there and his call to build a synagogue on the site, constitute an act of deception.

April 24, 2024 - They dream of rebuilding the Temple, ... Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa Mosque. Once a fringe movement, its activists are now backed by Itamar Ben-Gvir and other far-right extremists in Netanyahu's government....

August 7, 2024 - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s recent call to change the fragile status quo of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to allow Jewish prayer at the holy site deliberately deepens tensions. “I am the political leadership, and the leadership allows Jews to pray on the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque), and I performed prayers there last week.

August 26, 2024 - The Al-Aqsa compound is Islam's third holiest site and a symbol of Palestinian national identity, but it is also Judaism's holiest place, revered as the site of the second temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. "If I could do anything I wanted, I would put an Israeli flag on the site," Ben Gvir said in the interview.

August 29, 2024 - Recruitment of kohanim, breeding red heifers, architectural plans – anyone who thinks that Ben-Gvir and his cohorts want only to pray on the Temple Mount should look again. The big project is already underway ... Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount this month, his demand to allow Jews to pray there and his call to build a synagogue on the site, constitute an act of deception.

August 26, 2024 - Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir claimed on Monday that there is a new policy that doesn't limit Jewish prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque/Temple Mount compound.

April 17, 2025 - Only when my brother in law and the rest of the 48 come home will Israel be able to breathe again. Only then can we begin to rebuild what was lost

May 23, 2025 - In Israel, a Jewish messianic movement dreams of rebuilding the “third temple” in place of the mosques: the plans already exist, and all that’s missing is the arrival of the Messiah. Yet Ben-Gvir has a more political aim: He wants to expel the Palestinians from the biblical lands, and, ...

August 8, 2025 - In this episode, we explore the growing movement in Israel to restore the Temple on the Temple Mount—and what it means for Jews, Christians, and the world. From the prophecies of Ezekiel and Revelation to recent political headlines involving Itamar Ben Gvir and the Temple Institute, this video breaks down the theological, prophetic, and geopolitical…

August 28, 2024 - WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday accused National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of “sowing chaos” and “undermining Israel’s security” in its harshest critique yet of the hardline cabinet member. The statement from State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller came after Ben Gvir’s comments earlier this week expressing support for the establishment of a synagogue on the Temple Mount, with the Otzma Yehudit party leader responding enthusiastically in the affirmative when asked during an interview if he would put a Jewish house of worship at the flashpoint holy site if he could.

January 4, 2023 - Ben Gvir has long been an advocate for formally altering the Temple Mount status quo, in which Muslims are allowed to pray and enter with few restrictions, while Jews can visit only during limited time slots via a single gate and walk on a ...

After Ben-Gvir's visit, the Prime Minister's Office issued a statement saying that Israel's status quo on the Temple Mount "has not changed and will not change"

August 26, 2024 - PM insists status quo at flashpoint site remains unchanged after Ben Gvir says he'd support building a synagogue atop it; coalition, opposition members call for him to be fired

April 10, 2023 - Itamar Ben-Gvir called for allowing Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, a practice previously prohibited to avoid religious tensions.

Ben-Gvir attempted to assert that the status quo, under which Jews can visit but not pray on the Temple Mount, no longer exists.

In a speech given during his visit to the site, Ben-Gvir said he was "praying for victory in the Israel-Hamas War, the return of all hostages being held in Gaza."

October 8, 2025 - Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right National Security Minister, visited the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount compound during the Sukkot holiday to pray and called for a "total victory" in Gaza.

April 17, 2024 - National Security Minister Itamar ... Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem by apparently easing Jewish prayer at the flashpoint holy site, and boosting police enforcement there....

August 3, 2025 - Jordan, custodian of the site, called Ben-Gvir's latest visit "an unacceptable provocation". Hamas called it "a deepening of the ongoing aggressions against our Palestinian people", while a spokesperson for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the visit "crossed all red lines". The site is the holiest place for Jews because it was the location of two Biblical temples.