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Extremist political ideology in Israel
There is in Jerusalem as of the latest reports; instead, preparations by certain religious groups and political maneuvers around the site generate claims and tensions. Reporting shows active work by o...
The core biblical claims about a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem center on Ezekiel’s detailed temple vision (Ezekiel 40–48) and New Testament warnings that a standing temple will feature in end-times even...
The push to build a Third Temple in Jerusalem blends long-standing religious hopes with a modern political movement that gained organizational form in the late 20th century and clearer political backi...
Advocating to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem is both intensely political and deeply interfaith‑charged: it aligns with some Israeli political figures' rhetoric (e.g., Bezalel Smotrich’s calls) ...
Multiple modern red heifer candidates have been presented and evaluated in recent years, chiefly involving five heifers imported from Texas to Israel in September 2022 and inspected by Israeli religio...
Two clear patterns emerge from the materials provided: , and multiple high-profile candidates were later judged unsuitable after inspection. The Temple Institute’s reported candidate discoveries in 19...
The core claim is that the is a biblically mandated purification ritual whose ashes are required for certain temple-related purity laws, and some groups assert that performing this ritual is a necessa...
The best-documented founder of a major Temple Mount organization is Rabbi Yisrael (Israel) Ariel, who established and headed the Temple Institute (Machon HaMikdash) in Jerusalem in the late 1980s and ...
The red heifer (parah adumah) is a narrowly defined ritual animal in Jewish law whose , a rite elaborated in rabbinic sources and the Mishnah tractate Parah. Contemporary interest centers on two linke...
Recent reporting and analyses identify a cluster of developments between 2023 and 2025 that proponents and analysts say have in Jerusalem, but the evidence is primarily procedural, political, and symb...
The red heifer ritual originates in Numbers 19, where God commands a unique purification rite using the ashes of an unblemished, never-yoked red heifer burned outside the camp; those ashes mixed with ...
The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has actively pursued locating and preparing a biblically qualified , including importing candidates from Texas and publicly testing disqualified animals, but all publ...
The Temple Institute is repeatedly identified in the provided analyses as an active participant in efforts related to identifying and breeding red heifers believed necessary for Temple ritual purity; ...