Palestinians celebrate with fireworks the shooting of US-born Rabbi

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.