2 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.

January 4, 2023 - The content of the conversation was not made public. A statement issued by Ben Gvir’s office after their talks had said he would visit the Temple Mount “in the upcoming weeks.” · Hebrew media reports indicated that the two had agreed that Ben Gvir would hold off on visiting the flashpoint site for the time being. However, Likud insisted this was not the case. Rather, it said, after discussions with security officials, Netanyahu avoided recommending to the far-right minister that he refrain from visiting. Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (L) with Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the visit, calling it an “unprecedented provocation.” ·

1 month ago - “WELCOME TO ISRAEL! We are the landlords!” cried Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national-security minister, during a visit to Ashdod Port on Israel’s Mediterranean coast on May 20th. He was encouraging his officers to abuse activists who had been brought to the port, bound and forced to kneel after being detained at sea on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The video was not leaked to the press: Mr Ben-Gvir proudly published it himself. For the leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, it was just another stop on the campaign trail. This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Israel’s jailer-in-chief” ·

April 16, 2026 - Earlier this week, Ben-Gvir urged the High Court of Justice to permit “small groups” to ascend the Temple Mount and worship at the Western Wall, after Israel’s top court issued an interim order allowing an anti-war protest in central Tel Aviv with up to 600 participants.

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.

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....

July 27, 2023 - A major reason for the catastrophes cited in tradition is the division and hatred between different groups in Jewish society. The two temples were located at the flashpoint site. ... “On this day, in this place, it’s very important to remember, we are all brothers. Right-wing, left-wing, religious, secular, we are all the same people. When a terrorist looks out the window, he doesn’t discriminate between us. Unity is important, and love of Israel is important,” Ben Gvir said in a statement. “This place is the most important place for the people of Israel where we need to return and show our governance,” he added. Wasserlauf tweeted his hope for the “redemption” of the Jewish people and “the building of the [Third] Temple soon in our days, amen.” · Jews pray at the entrance to the flashpoint Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, during Tisha B’Av, on July 27, 2023.

August 3, 2025 - 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"

April 10, 2023 - As Israel’s minister of national security (December 2022–January 2025; March 2025– ), he relaxed restrictions on private gun ownership and promoted armed neighborhood watches in Israeli settlements. He politicized the police force, pressing the police to crack down on left-wing activists, particularly during the unprecedented protests across Israel in 2023; by contrast, police action against settlers’ use of violence against Palestinians fell dramatically even as such violence spiked amid the Israel-Hamas War. In August 2024, on Tisha b’Av, he called for the police to allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, a practice previously prohibited to avoid inflaming religious tensions. The following year on Tisha b’Av, he led a group in the morning prayers as the police looked on and guarded. Ben-Gvir was born in 1976 to a Mizrahi Jewish family.

January 19, 2023 - No one and no thing will cause Itamar Ben Gvir to compromise his principles. And when it comes to the matter of access to the Temple Mount for Jews, Minister Ben Gvir and I are in total agreement.

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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.

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April 7, 2026 - National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir toured the Temple Mount on Monday with Home Front Command officials, calling for the site to be opened to more worshippers amid wartime restrictions limiting access.

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April 12, 2026 - National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits Temple Mount alongside Rabbi Elisha Wolfson, calling to expand Jewish worship at holy site, Sunday, April 12, 2026.

May 21, 2023 - Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s National Security Minister, visited the Temple Mount compound on Sunday morning, two days after Israel’s Jerusalem Day. Markedly, Ben Gvir, a staunch supporter of Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount and ... Read More

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The hearing centers on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be legally compelled to fire Ben Gvir for allegedly overstepping his authority · Read time: 3 min. ... Temple Mount to reopen for Jews and Muslims for the first time since Iran war began, with entry in small groups, i24NEWS learns

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