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...Mark Goodman...
...shrine, is the traditional site where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the place from which, according to Muslim tradition, the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven on a horse. As an Arab guard attempted to block his entry to the mosque, Goodman shot and killed him, then fired wildly into a group of tourists who had raised their hands as a sign of surrender. A rain of shattered glass fell on the mosque's priceless Afghan and Iranian carpets. Moments later, when police arrived, they found Goodman hiding in a room beneath...
...West Bank, the Palestinian population learned of the shootings on an Arabic-language news broadcast at 11:30 a.m., some 90 minutes after Goodman had been taken into custody. Almost immediately, storekeepers began to close down their shops in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron and other major communities. Demonstrations broke out in several West Bank towns, a resumption of the general disorder that had afflicted the area sporadically for several weeks...
Israeli officials were not immediately certain whether Goodman, an American-born Jew and a recent immigrant to Israel, represented anybody but himself. For the 15 years of Israeli rule over East Jerusalem, the precise status of the Temple Mount has been a matter of concern to ultranationalist Israeli groups. Within the past five years, the cause has been taken up by a generation of zealous young Israelis, the same factions that have helped build Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Last month, for example, a 22-year-old Israeli who lived in one of the illegal settlements in the northern...
...Architect Percival Goodman, who has designed more than 50 religious and community buildings in the U.S., including handsome synagogues in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Michigan, the religious building of the future will be "modest in size and frugal in use of materials...