Extremist settlers storm Al-Aqsa under the protection of occupation soldiers (Al-Jazeera)

With the support of the Israeli extreme right, Jewish associations with a messianic call are developing in Israel. What are the roots of this founding trend of religious Zionist ideology in Israel?

Messianism or Messianicism is the belief of the Jewish people who believe in Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus) as the promised Messiah (Messiah), savior and savior in the Holy Hebrew Scriptures, who will come at the end of the world to save his people Israel.

A question that the French newspaper “La Croix” (which means the cross) tried to answer, beginning its investigation by saying that the early morning of February 7 witnessed about 15 Jews heading to the Old City of Jerusalem to “pray” in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque, where they believe (which is not the case) The newspaper denies that the Muslims built their third holiest site (Al-Aqsa Mosque) in the same place where “the ancient Temple of Jerusalem, the holiest place for the Jews,” was located, in reference to what the Jews call the “Temple Mount.”

Lacroix adds that the Israeli police accompany the group to confront possible clashes with the Palestinians, noting that the reason for this is good, in her opinion, as the regular visits of these Jews violate the fragile status quo that was reached in 1967, which grants non-Muslims specific visiting hours and prevents them From praying in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The presence of this small group in the aforementioned courtyard also challenges the rules of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel, which does not allow Jews to approach the “Holy of Holies” on the “Temple Mount,” according to Lacroix.

But the "Har Habayit" ("Temple Mount" in Hebrew) association organizes these trips back and forth and does not care about these considerations, because its members believe that claiming this holy place is the way to build the Third Temple, which will inevitably lead to accelerating the appearance of Christ, according to their claim.

Har HaBayit is not alone in working to “accelerate the coming of the Messiah.” Since the annexation of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967, the messianic thought of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha Cohen Kook, known as Rav Kook, has fueled the creation of numerous associations.

Thus, since 1987, the Temple Institute has been working to reconstruct lost songs, traditions, and utensils after the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 AD, while the interest of the “Puneh Israel” (Building Israel) Association was focused on importing red cows from the state of Texas, which They claim that "its sacrifice is necessary for the future priests of the Third Temple."

Although these associations are still a minority, they are witnessing significant development as a result of funding American evangelical Christian networks. They have also received major support for two years from supporters of religious Zionism within Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

“In the Jewish tradition, messianism is achieved in two stages,” says Roberta Colo-Moran, a researcher in the anthropology of contemporary Jewish societies at the Catholic Institute in Paris.

Firstly, “the gathering of the Jewish diaspora in the Land of Israel,” that is, in what they call “the Biblical lands,” and secondly, the construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem.

However, there is still disagreement in Jewish circles: Should the dispersion be ended by humans or by God?

On this point, Orthodox Hasidic circles differ from the Zionist principles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in that if the Jews were to return to Israel, humans had no right to interfere in this.

Hasidism or Hasidism is a Jewish social religious movement that arose in the 17th century. It is known for its religious conservatism and social isolation, and its members adhere closely to both Jewish and Orthodox practice.

Source: Lacroix