During the annual fast for the sacking of Jerusalem on August 3rd, worshippers mourn the Jewish temple the Roman army destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago. This year Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national-security minister, led thousands of Jews in prayer on Temple Mount and promised to rebuild the temple in place of the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim shrine. But on a rooftop on the other side of the city some Jews lament destruction past and present. “Gaza is desolate and laid ruin. We are the new Romans,” a religious leader with the Faithful Left, a group that has flourished during the war, tells his flock.
