Editing Temple Mount Faithful (section)

==History==
The movement was founded by former [[Israel Defense Forces]] officer and [[Middle Eastern studies]] lecturer Gershon Salomon.<ref>Inbari, p. 79, p. 81</ref> Members of the movement are referred to as the "Temple Mount Faithful". The group was established in 1967.<ref>Dumper, p. 55</ref>

On 8 October 1990, seventeen Palestinians were killed and over 100 others injured by [[Israeli Border Police]] in the [[1990 Temple Mount riots]] triggered by an announcement by the Temple Mount Faithful that they were going to lay a cornerstone for a Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.<ref>Inbari, p. 80</ref> After the riots, the police prohibited Salomon from entering the Temple Mount; his appeal of that decision was subsequently denied by [[Israeli High Court of Justice|Israel's High Court of Justice]].<ref name="Ramon, p. 307">Ramon, p. 307</ref>

The Temple Mount Faithful was the first significant group to advocate the Jewish takeover of the Temple Mount, and during the 1970s and 1980s, it remained the most visible group with that position. Initially, the group presented its argument largely in terms of nationalistic, rather than religious, symbolism. In a 1983 interview, Salomon stated that "whoever controls the Temple Mount has rights over the Land of Israel".<ref name="Don-Yehiya, p. 280">Don-Yehiya, p. 280</ref> Over time, Gershon Salomon developed a more religiously oriented apocalyptic and messianic platform, which, however, was distinctly non-[[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] in character. Tensions with the more [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] elements in the group caused a formal split in 1987, when a more religiously-oriented splinter group, called the "Movement for the Establishment of the Temple", was founded.<ref>Inbari, p. 85</ref> Subsequently, the influence of the Temple Mount Faithful among the radical Jewish activists gradually waned, although the group still retains significant visibility.<ref>Inbari, p. 80, pp. 88-89, p. 92</ref>