(Jerusalem Post) - Etgar Lefkovits Nearly three years after Jerusalem's Temple Mount was declared off limits to non-Muslims, Jerusalem police have begun permitting small groups of Jewish and Christian tourists as well as Israelis to reenter the site, police said Monday. Police had barred non-Muslims from entering the Temple Mount since September 2000, the longest period Judaism's holiest site has been closed to Jews and Christians since the unification of Jerusalem in 1967. The reopening of the site came in the wake of unanimous agreement by Israeli security officials that Israel was setting a dangerous precedent by keeping the site closed for so long. The move was also made possible after security officials deemed that the influence of the PA in Jerusalem was on the decline.
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