The day before, a Jewish fast-day, the main source of tension had been at Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.
Temple Mount and the western wall would become pavilions in which the strictest rules are observed and the most colourful customs preserved.
As the local and international press corps converged on Jerusalem's Old City to cover the Arab riots at the Temple Mount two weeks ago, little mention was made of the fact that Jerusalem was not the only flashpoint.
In order not to create an international crisis, Dayan made it clear that the army would not attack the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and immediately returned the keys to the Temple Mount to the Muslim authorities.
The BBC's Middle East correspondent, Paul Wood, says the call by some Palestinian officials for people to defend the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount, site of the al-Aqsa mosque, comes amid rumours of plans by Jewish extremists to take control of the area.
It was triggered by a visit by Mr Sharon, then the main opposition leader, to the rocky outcrop in Jerusalem that Jews call Temple Mount, Muslims call Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) and both regard as among the holiest of places on earth.
And it is true, as Gershom Gorenberg argues in his racy discussion of the various weird cults with designs on Temple Mount, that Jerusalem does not want for religious crackpots of every persuasion who would resort to violence in pursuit of some millenarian dream.
So while then-prime minister Ehud Barak for instance claimed that his offer to cede the Temple Mount was contingent on the signing of a peace treaty, when the so-called Middle East Quartet issued its road map plan for peace, Barak's ostensibly canceled offer was the starting point of negotiations.
The band's roots lie in the city's Mount Temple school where the then 15-year-old Larry Mullen, looking for fellow musicians, posted an advertisement on a noticeboard.
Had Titanic sunk more slowly, it would have been surrounded by the Frankfurt, the Mount Temple, the Birma, the Virginian, the Olympic, the Baltic and the first on the scene, the Carpathia.
I'd checked into the beguiling Maison Souvannaphoum, walked down the road, and climbed 355 steps up Mount Phousi, the temple-crowned hill in the center of town.
Sligo got so excited after following to Mount Parnassus and its oracle the opium-loving Lord Byron that he started building his own temple of dreams in these wilds in 1815.
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