Temple Mount rights activist and assassination attempt survivor Yehuda Glick attended the Likud party conference in Tel Aviv Monday night, stating that for him, “Likud is home, and the party is an embrace.”
Glick noted that many Likud MKs and officials have given him support following his brush with death.
“I received many phone calls, many text messages, prayers – all of these things,” he stated to Arutz Sheva at the conference. “I came to say, ‘thank you very much.'”
Glick affirmed that he is #33 on the Likud list, but added that he did not come to the event because of that, but because he “loves this party.”
“I love these people, and I feel them return that love all the time,” he said.
Glick also received an embrace from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and noted that he “encouraged him [Netanyahu]” during the exchange, thanking him for “eliminating the terrorist [who shot Glick – ed.] on the same night [as the shooting]” and for calling Glick’s father and wife after the attack.
“I told him that we have issues to discuss, and he promised me that he would,” he added.
Glick – who founded and heads the LIBA Initiative for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount – has worked intensely to promote equal prayer rights at Judaism’s holiest site, which has heavy restrictions on Jewish prayer and visitation.
He was shot in the chest outside the Begin Heritage Center for his efforts to equalize the Mount in October by Mu’taz Hijazi, who was an Islamic Jihad terror ex-convict, and an employee at a restaurant in the Center. Hijazi pulled up in a motorcycle or scooter and confirmed Glick’s identity before opening fire at point-blank range.
He had been speaking, minutes before being shot, at an event for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount that had hosted leading religious figures and MKs.
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