you pick the leaders who hate Israel. You deliberately pick the enemies of Israel.

You made their lives intolerable. So, you can pray in that building yourself.

Listen to this man "I'm sick and tired of the hatred. A sane voice must emerge" and "in the absence of upstanding politicians it falls on businessmen to bring together Jews and Arabs". Finally, a sane man, who does not consider every one outside his tribe unworthy, inferior etc. May be people on both sides should sit up and listen, we can not expect politicians to do anything, not having seen an upstanding one for ...... (Fill in the blank).

Couldnt agree more, she spurts her usual rantings and hatred from the comfort of her home in LA. Yet she cannot commit to Israel and sacrafice her comforts in LA , however she has no problem lecturing us from the lobby of the Hilton on how we should run our lives here in Israel, We eat the rotten fruits not her.

He may get thanks for this overly good deed but cement relations between arabs and jews - I doubt it.

You have a big heart.

Have there been any synagogues that have been built by donations from Muslims? Just curious. I wonder what the sermons coming out of this mosque will be?

or give money for a shul? Of course not. What an idiot. And that's what the arabs all think of him too!

will another jew-'useful idiot'--help bulid mosque at ground zero? the arabs cant thank yhis fool enough!

Brilliant!!!

Jews felt it less dangerous to be dhimmis in Morocco or Turkey than in Spain at a time when the islamic civilization was brilliant and progressive. Its decay caused the rise of arab antisemitism, a string of pogroms, discrimination, forceful conversions, expulsions. The Palestinians were stabbed in the back not by Herzl, but by their brothers who forces 1 million Jews (including Harush) to take shelter in Israel. Now, ya brel, you must understand that the time of religious hierarchy and ethnic supremacy is OVER. We do not want to be tolerated, but accepted as an equal people with home rule and right of self defence.

Shukran and toda!! Don't listen to the haters like Bunnie Meyer and Linda Rivera...if the world was full of people like them, the human race with be extinct!!!

This is a joke...right?

This is really putting money in the right places, brilliant. A big mosque in France will encourage the Muslims to go there while a bet kneset and mikveh in Ashkelon will attract more young, observant Jews to the South. Fantastic, kol hakovod.

One wonders their role and agenda in incitement,disinformation in keeping the conflict on the boil.

WRONG!!!

And it figures that YNET would favor your small thinking comment.

Could you please mention one Muslim who loves Jews/Israel? The only love they have is they would love to see Israel destroyed and become an islamic state. Wake up to reality. And that applies to those who say that this man is doing the right thing. Do they also think that it is right for Muslims to build their huge mosque in NY next to gound zero? Is there a difference? WAKE UP TO REALITY. That money could be far better used, if he sent that money to organisations in Israel, which helps feed the poor. That would be a real Mitzva. Can you imagine a Muslim spending millions on building a Synagogue in Jerusalem? I bet not.

Did you know that Saudi Arabia is building a huge cathedral in Mecca as well as a huge Synagogue? First let them build there, before any Jew pays one cent to build a mosque so that their preacher an incite hatred of Jews and israel.

do you know why God provided Moses PBUH with 12 rivers ,one for each Israeli Tribe sir . think about it for a moment .. even when they were crossing the sea with Moses PBUH ,each one asked for their own path ,but be able to see the others .. think deeply of the facts .. the moral of those ABC facts .. you can't live together ....you will kill each other. this notion of a nation,a state etc...blablabla //is all in your head ,it never worked before . the Jerusalem Haredim school example is a very small one .

.... NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL HERE: NOT ALL ISRAELI ARE JEWISH and NOT ALL JEWISHS ARE ISRAELI! see through your HEART, NOT through your EYES. JESUS is JEWISH too, A BETRAYED JEWISH [must be because he's good lookin :p]

I love how jews are always so generous with white gentiles' countries when promoting "tolerance" and "diversity". You plant your holy chosen feet in our lands, and all of a sudden we're supposed to negotiate the rights to our lands with you. Why didn't this jew build a mosque in Israel instead?

Sharing is the only way to bring peace.

In Fayetteville Arkansas USA a Palestinian-American mensch decided to do something very similar to this. He's a contractor who got his wealth in real estate and has donated to many good causes. When Temple Shalom reached out to the community, he donated his services for free and saw the synagogue through to a lovely completion. If he hadn't done that it would never have happened.

" I feel that in the absence of upstanding politicians it falls on businessmen to bring together Jews and Arabs and seculars and the religious." Since we have no good politicians here capable to make peace and build our nation, if only the rest of us think like Harush and act like him, doing such things quietly, we may be able to do more than what this current government is doing.

I find it funny how you still consider yourself a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon while you are adding a talkback on the internet. I guess those "refugee camps" have laptops now huh. Stop thinking of yourself as a Palestinian refugee and think of yourself as a citizen of Lebanon! Demand equal rights from your Arab brothers!