Ecumenical ceremony in Jerusalem on Wednesday, before the synagogue targeted by two armed Palestinians with guns and knives.
In the aftermath of this attack, where four Jews were killed, religious leaders Christians, Jews and Muslims have launched an appeal for tolerance.
"We like to come here to express our opposition to this crime, this attack against a holy place, the house of God and the faithful against unarmed" thus explained Imam of Al-Jazzar mosque in Saint-Jean d'Acre Sheikh Samir Assi.
Sign of the tension, the Israeli authorities have taken at dawn, the controversial policy of destroying homes of bombers.
The security services and blew the house of a Palestinian who killed a 3 month old baby and a 22 year old Ecuadorian tourist pouncing with his car on a bus stop.
Israeli authorities have also approved the construction of 78 new housing units in East Jerusalem, while the Prime Minister promised to respond "with an iron fist" to terrorism.
"Palestinian workers come to work in Israel," said Netanyahu, "legally or not, and some benefit to get Hamas terrorists, terrorists who, unfortunately, are backed by the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian President. We will do everything to protect us from this danger. "
Interview with Vincent Lemire, a historian of Jerusalem, CNRS researcher and director of the project "Open Jerusalem." Vincent Lemire is the author of "The thirst of Jerusalem Test hydrohistoire (1840-1948)" and "Jerusalem 1900: the holy city at the age of possibilities".
Raphaële Tavernier, euronews:
Vincent Lemire, you are in Jerusalem, what is the atmosphere in the holy city today?
Vincent Lemire:
"During the day, the situation looks quite normal air, but at night the streets are completely empty. At night, people are reluctant to go out and return home late at night. And then there are several especially Jerusalem. West Jerusalem and East and other areas of East Jerusalem is almost every night the scene of clashes sometimes very violent. So it is difficult to say if the atmosphere is calm or not. It is very variable from one hour to the next and from one district to another. "
euronews:
This may he go crescendo?
Vincent Lemire:
"We see emotionally reveals new procedures that are uncontrollable for the security services. Of knife attacks and it actually gives the image a much more spontaneous uprising, much less organized, less structured but in some ways more disturbing for the Israeli security services. "
euronews:
"The continuation of Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem is it you think the only factor behind the rise of tensions and violence?
Vincent Lemire:
"The continuation and acceleration of Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Jerusalem is the pivotal factor determining long-term, but that said, I do not think this is what explains the current explosion of violence. There is a short-term trigger factor for several months. Clearly, it is the repeated visits of religious Jewish extremists on the Temple Mount, with provocations entirely voluntary on the part of the Jewish religious extremists. And new political connections especially from within the ruling party, the Likud member Moshe Feglin carrying out such actions on the Temple Mount, and then even within the government with Naftali Bennett that supports these actions.
euronews:
"Sweden has recognized a Palestinian state in late October, the Spanish deputies called to go in the same direction, as also symbolically the British Parliament. How is it experienced by Israel?
Vincent Lemire:
"There was a formal speech and there is a more intimate feeling. The official line says "this has no impact, no importance is symbolic." And when you dig a little deeper you realize that there is a very intimate feel different. All Israelis know that the State of Israel was born a vote of the United Nations General Assembly in November 1947 and therefore all Israelis know that the new strategy of Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to seek recognition International is absolutely not only symbolic but will have political implications in terms of international relations, extremely strong implications in the medium term and long term. "
euronews:
You say in your book "Jerusalem 1900", "(...) was a time not so long ago, Jerusalem was a model of coexistence between communities." That time is over?
Vincent Lemire:
"Yes clearly that time is over in the moment in which we are, but that does not mean that this time will not return. Since biblical times, Jerusalem has always been a kind of jewel on an imperial crown, and in fact the imperial context, supra, allowed a certain urbanity and a life together. From the First World War, Jerusalem rocking in a totally new context. Jerusalem becomes the focal point of the clash of two competing national projects. The Zionist project on one side and Israel and the Arab draft another. So that context, these two competing citizenships and clash, prevents citadinity prevents urban Jerusalem to live together in a peaceful and harmonious. "
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