Prayer on Temple Mount honors slain US activist Charlie Kirk

Dozens of Christians and Jews gathered on Wednesday on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for a special prayer event honoring American conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Sept. 10.

The event, held at Judaism’s holiest site, was organized by Beyadenu–Returning to the Temple Mount, together with partner groups including Root Source, the Jerusalem Peace Fund, Israel Lighthouse and Shofar in Zion.

“Charlie understood that Israel is on the right side. He believed there is good and evil. And in Israel’s war against Hamas, Israel is good, and Hamas is evil,” former Knesset member Rabbi Yehudah Glick, who led the prayer session, told JNS on Thursday.

In 2014, Glick was shot four times by a Palestinian terrorist outside a conference focusing on the Temple Mount in the Israeli capital. He was hospitalized for weeks and endured nine surgeries to recover from the attack.