'It's in our hands,' says Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick

Former Likud Knesset member and Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick believes his life's mission is to transform Jerusalem's Temple Mount - what he prefers to call "Zion" - into "a house of prayer for all nations."

Interviewed in the JNS Jerusalem Studio on July 6, the American-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi reflected on four decades of activism, surviving an assassination attempt in 2014 and his belief that greater Jewish and international access to the site can advance religious freedom and ultimately peace.

"Our mission as the Jewish people," Glick said, "is the mountain."

He added, "I do...