Will Netanyahu use a court decision to forgo a plan to alter the Mughrabi Gate?...two weeks ago, the Jerusalem District Court supplied him with a ladder. Now, the prime minister must decide whether he wants to use it to climb down from the ramp, or whether he prefers to climb up, and gamble with what is left of Israel's relations with the Muslim world.
...Rumors flew through the Arab world that the Jews were trying to undermine the foundations of the mosque and prepare the area for the construction of a third Temple. The Jordanian king warned that the work would undermine the stability of the Middle East...a team of experts from Turkey examined the excavations and asserted that this was an attempt to destroy cultural assets from the Islamic period.
[The Western Wall Rabbi, Shmuel] Rabinowitz promoted a detailed plan for changing the face of the Mughrabi ramp...But two weeks ago, something happened in Jerusalem that threatens to spoil the plan. The president of the Jerusalem District Court, Judge Moussia Arad, took a look at the pictures shown her by attorney Kais Nasser, who is representing Islamic historian Dr. Mahmoud Massalha in his petition against the plan. She looked, and it apparently had an effect.
According to the pictures, which were taken in 2004, the damage to the ramp is small and concentrated mainly in its northern section. An expert opinion accompanying the photographs stated that the cracks did not affect the other parts of the ramp at all, so it is possible to renovate it quickly, at a cost of no more than NIS 50,000.
Arad ordered representatives of the Prime Minister's Office to get back to her within a month...
So, who killed Rabin?
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