Right-wing activist shot during annual Temple Mount event in Jerusalem
Rabbi Yehuda Glick seriously wounded after being shot in upper body at close
range during 'Israel Returns to the Temple Mount' conference at the Menachem
Begin Heritage Center.
YNET Latest Update: 10.29.14, 23:24 / Israel News
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Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a well-known US-born right-wing activist, was shot in
close range outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on
Wednesday night.

Glick was shot in his upper body during an annual 'Israel Returns to the
Temple Mount' event organized by the Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful
Movement. The event was attended by MKs and notable right-wing activists,
among them Deputy Minister Eli Ben Dahan, MK Moshe Feiglin, MK Miri Regev
and Hagai Ben Artzi - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law.

The Jerusalem Police District spokesman said the shooter was on a
motorcycle.

Glick is a central activist in Temple Mount movements and a symbol of the
struggle for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Police and the Shin Bet have
often barred Glick from the Temple Mount and he has been fighting legal
battles against Israeli law enforcement authorities against these bans, some
of which have been successful.

At the conference on Wednesday night, Glick presented a video filmed on the
Temple Mount on Wednesday morning that shows Palestinians trying to scare
the Jewish visitors away with "Allahu Akbar" calls. "This is the situation
in Jerusalem today," he said.

MK Feiglin gave a witness account to the police. He later told Ynet:"What
happened is horrible but very expected. Glick was constantly threatened. The
fact that he was not assigned protection at all times is a failure. I say
this as someone who is the target of constant incitement. Weakness and
incompetence were behind this attack. This was a relaxed conference, the
room was half full. This was not an impassioned event. An Arab came there
with the urge to kill."

MK Regev spoke at the conference on Wednesday and left the event a few
minutes prior to the shooting. "It was a quiet conference about the rights
of Jews to come to the Temple Mount and pray there," she said. "An attack in
the center of Jerusalem close to the Menachim Begin Heritage Center is an
escalation of attacks on personal security. Whoever does not fight for
security there, will in return get terror in all of Israel."

Deputy Minister Dahan left the conference about an hour before the shooting:
"I spoke about the security situation in Jerusalem, and said the lack of
control and order marks the loss of our sovereignty in the capitol. If the
situation is deteriorates we will lose power."

Magen David Adom paramedics arrived at the scene to treat the man and later
evacuated him to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in critical condition.

A Magen David Adom paramedic, Aharon Adler, that treated Glick, said, "When
we arrived at the scene was saw a 50-year-old man lying on the ground, he
was conscious and suffered several gunshot wounds to his upper body. We
quickly took him to the hospital in serious condition. At the hospital he
was sedated, attached to a respirator and taken to surgery."

Palestinians were shooting fireworks in Jerusalem's Old City in celebration
of the assassination attempt on Glick's life.