[59 minutes] ABANDONED: The Kurdish Crisis & Why Isn't Trump Striking Iran [One hour 25 minutes] Police allowed Jewish worshipers to ascend the Temple Mount with printed prayer sheets Wednesday, in a further challenge to regulations barring non-Muslim prayer at the flashpoint Old City of Jerusalem site. Early Wednesday, students at the Temple Mount Yeshiva handed out liturgical material printed on flyers to Jewish visitors waiting to go up to the Temple Mount. The sheets included religious guidelines for visiting the holy site, a prayer to recite before ascending and the Amidah (standing) prayer, said thrice-daily in Jewish tradition. Police said they acceded to a request from the Temple Mount Yeshiva — which encourages Jews to ascend and pray at the site — that visitors be allowed to carry “guidance sheets” with them to the complex. “In order to maintain the existing order, it was determined that the use of these sheets would be limited solely to specific areas defined by the police,” police added. Non-Muslim prayer has until recently been forbidden forbidden atop the Temple Mount — known by Muslims as the Al-Aqsa Compound — due to a string of agreements known as the status quo between Israel and Jordan, which administers the site through the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf. While in the past, police would eject or detain Jewish visitors caught praying on the Temple Mount, this policy has largely fallen to the wayside over the past three years under National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has repeatedly demanded that police allow Jews to pray there. In recent years, Jewish visitors have been permitted to pray and prostrate themselves in the eastern part of the complex, but were still barred from bringing prayer items, such as tefillin, prayer shawls and printed liturgy, to the site. Police appeared to confirm their official sanction of non-Muslim prayer in a Wednesday statement that stressed that officers work to “enable freedom of worship and visitation at the Temple Mount for all religions and communities.” Leading activists for Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount downplayed the gravity of the new policy, insisting it was merely a recognition of the current reality. The group’s spokesman, meanwhile, stressed the significance of the shift, telling The Times of Israel that such printed material was “something that they [Israeli security] used to check for, to make sure you were not bringing” to the site. BREAKING NEWS: Is a Preemptive Strike Coming? [7 minutes] The IDF launched an operation over the weekend to bring back the last hostage’s body, Sgt. First Class Ran Gvili, for burial in Israel, it was cleared for publication Sunday evening, shortly after Hamas itself announced that new searches were underway following information it had provided. The operation is one of many, most of them covert. According to the military, there were several intelligence leads regarding Gvili’s location, and forces are now acting on one indication that he was buried in a cemetery between the Daraj Tuffah and Shijaiyah neighborhoods of Gaza City, along the so-called Yellow Line, east of it, in an area under Israeli military control. The operation is being led by the commander of the Alexandroni Brigade, with Battalion 75 and engineering forces, along with doctors, including a dentist, and representatives of the military rabbinate who are tasked with assisting in identification if and when remains are found. Identification through dental records is considered the fastest method. The dentist is operating with a portable X-ray unit in the field. The cemetery contains hundreds of bodies. In the first phase of the search alone, 170 bodies are being examined individually. According to one IDF assessment, Gvili was buried there because the terror group that abducted him believed he was Palestinian, apparently due to the dark uniform he was wearing on October 7. "We did not identify that Hamas made an especially vigorous effort to locate him in recent weeks," the military said, adding that Hamas likely issued its announcement Sunday in order to "take credit" and claim it helped prompt the search. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjxot07lwe 
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