July 29: The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement

On July 29, 2001, the ‘Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement’ was repelled by violent Muslim demonstrations from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, where they had come to place a new cornerstone for the construction of a third Temple of Solomon.

The group was led by one Gershon Salomon, a former Israeli Army officer and follower of the somewhat improbably-named Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook.

--More soon on Temple restoration efforts, Rabbi Kook, and a mysterious project to breed a pure red heifer....