I’ve been on the Temple Mount. It was four years ago during Hannukah with a group from our Temple. We were not permitted to take any religious items, such as skull caps or prayer shawls. We were also told to watch what we said, and to not say any prayers. We were told that a Christian woman was ejected because it was suspected that she was saying a silent prayer.
I said a silent Shehechianu, which is the Hebrew prayer thanking G-d for allowing us to reach this occasion. If I would have been caught, I might have been ejected, or it might have started a riot.
A few years earlier, the Muslims were caught illegally excavating in the Temple Mount with the intention of building another mosque, and covering up any evidence of a Jewish presence prior to Islam. The took 2,000+ years of archaeological artifacts, crushed them smithereens, and dumped them in a valley.
G-d bless you, Dave.
I managed some silent prayers there too, in 1984.
I was there about 6 years ago. I had my backpack with Ham sandwich walked up close to the Al-Aqsa Mosque Foot Bathing pool. I almost tossed my Ham sandwich into the pool as a gesture of solidarity with the G-d of the Jews...but the thought of making CNN dissuaded me.