Free Republic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ambassador Mike Huckabee inaugurated the Pilgrimage Road, the ancient street leading to the Temple in the time of Jesus, in Jerusalem’s City of David on Monday. The 2,000-year-old road served pilgrims ascending to the Temple from the south, and has been excavated in a lengthy and controversial process, as the around 600-meter-long route runs underneath houses in the Arab-majority neighborhood of Silwan, in east Jerusalem. After years of excavation and construction, the route was opened end-to-end on Monday. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office said that the joint visit was among...