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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/a-new-challenge-to-jordans-status-on-the-temple-mount/
A New Challenge to Jordan's Status on the Temple Mount
(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - Morocco's kings, the "defenders of Islam's holy sites in Jerusalem," have led the Jerusalem Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference) for decades. Normalization of ties with Israel may enable Morocco to improve its standing at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Morocco has donated dozens of prayer rugs to mosques at the site, and has transferred funds, through the Jerusalem Committee, to renovate homes in the area surrounding the Western Wall. Jordan, the current "guardian" of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, is more concerned than ever. Jordan's status on the Temple Mount is anchored in the peace deal it signed with Israel in 1994.