SIDEWAYS GLANCES The “Tayelet” is sealed shut after Sunday’s terror attack that opens the IDF rules of engagement to greater scrutiny
I n Jerusalem it’s known as the Tayelet.
The Tayelet or the Haas Promenade and its adjacent parkland affords tourists and picnickers a panoramic view of Har Habayit. Built at the northern edge of Armon Hanetziv where Mandatory Palestine’s High Commissioner Herbert Samuel lived in the 1930s tradition says this was the same vantage from which Avraham and Yitzchak beheld the place of the Akeidah “from a distance.”
On Sunday there were korbanos at this normally pastoral and historic site when an Arab terrorist deliberately rammed his truck through a parking lot where some 40 IDF cadets had gathered for an educational tour killing four soldiers and injuring 15.
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