WATCH: Israel prevented a ‘disaster’ on Temple Mount, Lapid says

In a press briefing Sunday, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says that “it would have been a disaster” if Israel had not removed the Muslim rioters from the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Temple Mount.

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