Jewish Temple activist Yehuda Glick has gone back to the scene of the attempt on his life with a Channel 2 television crew, and recounted what transpired outside the Begin Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday, October 29.

“I see myself downstairs, talking with the friends, with Shai [Malka] and Moriah,” he told the Uvda documentary show. “I go outside… lots of equipment, and I open the back door of the car and he [the terrorist] stands near the car’s back door. I saw his face, I saw his helmet. His face shone, it stood out.”

“He looks at me – he seemed to me to be someone from the neighborhood, like a young guy who had come back from a night out, and then he turned to me and told me, ‘I am very sorry, I have to do this because you are an enemy of Al Aqsa.’”

Glick also told the interviewer: “When they used to ask me, ‘is it possible that they will hurt you?’ – I always answered, ‘yes, it’s possible.’ But deep down inside I did not believe that it would happen.”

Glick – who founded and heads the LIBA Initiative for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount – was shot in the chest outside the Begin Heritage Center 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. 

After his miraculous recovery from four gunshots and critical wounds Glick was released from Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem without a police security detail. A group of volunteers has taken up the task of helping to protect the activist.