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azurnoir

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2. more from Jerusalem Day-Report: Israeli MK's tour Al-Aqsa to mark Jerusalem Day

Mon May 21, 2012, 06:37 PM

May 2012

National Union parliamentarians Uri Ariel and Michael Ben-Ari participated in the tour, which was organized by Yehuda Etzion, a former member of militant religious group the Gush Emunim Underground.

During the tour, Ben-Ari and other activists kneeled down to pray, before being prevented from doing so by police. Yehuda Etzion was then forcibly removed from the compound after sitting on the ground and refusing to move, the Israeli daily said.

Ben-Ari is a known supporter of Meir Kahane, who founded the far-right Kach party now banned under Israeli anti-terrorism laws.

Etzion was jailed for five years in the 1980s for plotting to blow up the Al-Aqsa mosque.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=487556

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