Disputes Delay Video Surveillance at Tense Jerusalem Shrine

Video surveillance of Jerusalem's holiest site was meant to be a quick fix to lower tensions that have driven months of Israeli-Palestinian violence, but disputes over who controls the footage and what the cameras may or may not film are holding up the project. Underlying the seemingly technical arguments is a fundamental disagreement over who is in charge of the 37-acre (15-hectare) walled hilltop shrine, which is central to the competing national and religious narratives of...

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