“About half a million people visited the Western Wall over Passover; only 6,315 went up to the Temple Mount.” This was the title of a recent news piece by Kikar HaShabbat, the ultra-Orthodox news site. In a rather forced attempt to prove to their readership that the “absolute majority of the Jewish people” remain distant from the holiest site in Judaism, they pit these two numbers against one another. But what they fail to mention is the trend.
Temple Mount statistics are eye-opening. When examined a little more closely, they tell a story of a topic considered once by many to be taboo becoming adapted into the mainstream. It is the trend of a country headed in the direction of a Temple in Jerusalem. A shift in the Overton Window if I have ever seen one.
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