Rishon L�Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita addressed the current nationwide security crisis during a memorial Thursday night the eve of 3 Cheshvan marking two years since the petira of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT�L. The rav attacked PA (Palestinian Authority) leader Abu Mazen for the ongoing incitement along with attacking Jews who visit Har Habayis.

�Har Habayis is not a private mountain for a group of tzaddikim� he explained, continuing to speak about the situation in which a 13-year-old has been sent to murder and then the PA dares to allege that Israel executed him. �We are scared to walk in the streets because of their barbaric actions� he added.

Rabbi Yosef continued, lashing out against those visiting Har Bayis and those �Who believe that nationalism supersedes halacha�. He stressed that Gedolei Hador throughout the generations have prohibited visiting Har Habayis and how dozens and dozens of Gedolim has written and explained this prohibition, questioning �They did not have ahavas Eretz Yisrael?�

Rabbi Yosef called on the tzibur to stop these visits to the holy site.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)