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She appears to have taken a page out of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's book, as per his Friday speech at Teheran University, reported on Israel Radio: "The Zionists should leave the Middle East and move to Canada, Alaska or any other available land mass" ("Refaeli bars f...

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Published inThe Jerusalem post
Main Authors Yonah, P, Hinde Fekete, Freedman, Shalom, Katz, David, Hirsch, Jane S, Braund, William, Ehrlich, R, Solomons, I, Jerusalem Post Staff
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 09.10.2007
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Riskin, Shlomo
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Summary:She appears to have taken a page out of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's book, as per his Friday speech at Teheran University, reported on Israel Radio: "The Zionists should leave the Middle East and move to Canada, Alaska or any other available land mass" ("Refaeli bars famous friends' visit to Israel," October 3). Why is it holy to the Muslims? Because it was from the site of the Temple that Muhammad, after his night journey from Mecca, went up to heaven on his winged horse, Burak. Although it does not actually say that he went to heaven from the Temple site in Jerusalem, it is recorded that he went up from the "furthest place" ("al-Aksa") This is assumed to have been Jerusalem, although Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran, while it is mentioned nearly 700 times in the Bible. The Arab name for Jerusalem, "Al-Quds" is a shortened form of the original Arab name for Jerusalem, which was "Bayt al-Miqdas," a name every Hebrew speaker will recognize as "Beit Hamikdash" - the Temple.