"Twelve years ago, only 30% of Israeli Jews supported rebuilding the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, on Har HaBayit, the Temple Mount. Today, that number stands at 55%. The shift did not happen gradually or quietly. It happened on October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists massacred 1,200 Israelis and shattered whatever remained of the Israeli public’s assumptions about security, sovereignty, and the spiritual stakes of this conflict. A new survey commissioned by the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and conducted by the Direct Polls Institute under pollster Shlomo Filber reveals a nation whose relationship to its holiest site has been transformed by trauma and war.""The survey, drawn from a representative sample of 1,010 Israeli adults aged 18 and older, found that 55% of Jewish Israelis now support the establishment of the Third Temple, with only 29% opposed and 16% undecided. Among those who support it, 38% regard the Temple as having both religious and national significance, 21% as purely religious, and 16% as primarily a national and historical matter. Just 13% called the Temple Mount too politically sensitive to pursue, a striking drop from the defensive posture that has governed Israeli government policy toward the site for decades." FULL STORY at above link.