How a Handshake Became the Temple Mount Status Quo
In June 1967, Moshe Dayan — the defense minister who hadn't wanted the Old City at all — walked into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and improvised an arrangement with the Muslim Waqf that still governs the Temple Mount today. No treaty. No ratified law. No signature. This episode traces the archival record of how the status quo was actually made: the flag taken down from the Dome of the Rock, the paratroopers company withdrawn, the cabinet that wouldn't write down a ban on Jewish prayer, and the Waqf that kept charging admission and signing protest letters as the Hashemite Kingdom. It's a story about…
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