The previously secret minutes of a meeting in 1970 between then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and leaders of the nascent settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria have been published for the first time – and they include some very surprising statements on both sides, with the secular Dayan raising the idea of allowing Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, and his religious guests making clear that they do not espouse it.
At one point, Dayan even floated the idea of bulldozing the Mosque of Omar, which is located next to the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, apparently just to test the settlement leaders’ reaction and to make a point regarding prayer at the Cave of Machpela.
The meeting – described as a meeting between Dayan and “a delegation of settlers from Hevron” – took place on Wednesday, September 30, 1970, and its contents were published Friday by Arnon Segal, a Temple Mount activist, in Makor Rishon.
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