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Jewish Woman Loses Gun for ‘Praying on Temple Mount’
by Ido Ben-Porat
October 12, 2015

In the middle of an Arab terror wave centered around Jerusalem’s Old City, a 55-year-old female Jewish resident of the restive area has had her license to carry a handgun removed by the Internal Security Ministry. The reason given for removing her means of self-defense? According to the ministry, police claim she “prayed on the Temple Mount,” the holiest site in Judaism. The woman, Feiga Tavnes, has lived in the Old City for the past 35 years. For all of those 35 years she has held a license to carry a firearm and owned a personal handgun, and in all those years she has never been investigated or run afoul of the law. READ MORE