Far-right Israeli lawmakers visit Jerusalem flash points ahead of contentious Jewish flag parade

May. 10, 2021
As tensions in Jerusalem continued to rise, Israeli far-right lawmakers made visits on Monday to several flash points in the Old City and East Jerusalem.
Also on Monday, the Israel Police said it will permit the Flag March, in which religious Zionist youth march through East Jerusalem with Israeli flags to mark the city's 1967 reunification, and to pass through the Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter on the way to Western Wall. 
The decision was made despite security officials warning Israel's political leaders that holding the march as is could risk worsening hostilities in the city.
Bezalel Smotrich, chairman of the Religious Zionism party, along with the leader of the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party, Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which has stood at the center of recent Arab-Jewish tensions, on Monday afternoon.

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