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Who Polices the Temple Mount Checkpoint?
The Temple Mount is the most contested piece of real estate on earth — holy to both Judaism and Islam, claimed by both, occupied by both simultaneously. Since 1967, an unwritten arrangement called the Status Quo has kept the peace: Jews can visit, but they cannot pray. Enforcing that ban falls to a specialized unit of the Israel Police — and many of those officers are Israeli Arabs, Muslim citizens of Israel policing Jews at a Jewish holy site. This episode walks through the daily mechanics of the Mughrabi Gate checkpoint: how officers screen for prayer intent in thirty seconds, why the Waqf…
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