By TAMAR STEIN ISRAEL NEWS, SEPTEMBER 8, 2026

“What about the mosque? I believe the Arabs will vacate it. I truly believe this. I really, truly believe this. I believe we will reach a point where the entire world will want to see the Temple built.

In a pre-election Q&A session, a questioner posed something Israeli politicians rarely answer directly: what happens to the mosque on the Temple Mount when the Third Temple rises? Speaking to supporters this week, Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin answered without flinching.“In the consciousness we’re in right now, this sounds far-fetched, impossible. But we’ve seen how quickly things can change. Why will it happen? Because it is written in the Torah — just as it was written in the Torah — that we would return to our land after nearly two thousand years, and that was the most far-fetched thing in the world. The most far-fetched thing in the world, far more so than building the Temple. And that came true too. That came true too.