Israel, Jordan try to ease Jerusalem tensions
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ERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister says he has spoken to Jordan's King Abdullah II in a bid to ease mounting tensions around Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site.
The two leaders spoke over the phone on Thursday, a day after Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest what it called an "unacceptable" Israeli police assault on a disputed hilltop compound in Jerusalem's Old City, revered by Jews and Muslims.
Violence erupted at the site Wednesday after a group of religious Jews tried to visit. Muslims consider such visits a provocation.
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Palestinians stand behind a garbage container set on fire during clashes with Israeli border police in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. Clashes broke out after a Palestinian driver rammed a minivan into a crowded train station. He then backed out and proceeded to drive away, hitting several cars along the way, then got out of the car and attacked a group of civilians and police officers on the side of the road with a metal bar, killing one and wounding 13, before he was shot and killed. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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