A Knesset lawmaker said Sunday he will set up his office outside an entrance to the Temple Mount in protest of an ongoing ban against MKs visiting the holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem, imposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Likud MK Yehuda Glick announced in a statement he will move his Knesset bureau to the Gate of Tribes to demonstrate against the ban that Netanyahu applied to all members of parliament a year and a half ago.

Glick will begin working in the plaza outside the gate at 10 a.m. on Monday, the statement said, and noted the historical significance of the location as the entrance used by IDF paratroopers to enter the Temple Mount when they captured the site from the Jordanian army during the 1967 Six Day War.

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“The prime minister’s decision is against the law and against his commitments to the High Court, and therefore I will be completely determined in acting until the Temple Mount is open to MKs,” said Glick, an activist for the right to Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.

In 2014, a Palestinian terrorist attempted to assassinate Glick, telling Glick, right before pulling the trigger, that he was “an enemy of al-Aqsa,” the Temple Mount mosque.

The flash-point site was recently the focus a major crisis between Israeli authorities and local Muslims in a spat over security measures placed at entrances to the compound following a deadly attack in which three Arab Israelis emerged from the site with weapons they had smuggled onto it and shot dead two Israeli police officers. After a brief closure to investigate the attack, Israel re-opened the site with security installations set up, including metal detectors, which quickly led to violent protests in and around East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Under press from Jordan, the Palestinians and others, Netanyahu subsequently ordered all the new measures removed.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest site in Islam. High-profile visits by Israeli officials and rumors of changes to the status quo have preceded outbursts of violence. Under an arrangement in place since Israel’s victory in the 1967 war, non-Muslims are allowed to visit the site but not pray there.

Under Netanyahu’s ban, MKs are prohibited from even visiting.

The prime minister ordered Jewish and Muslim lawmakers off the site a year and a half ago, after the outbreak in October 2015 of a wave of Palestinian violence and terror attacks centered around claims that Israel was attempting to take control of the Temple Mount compound.

In early July, following discussions with Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, the prime minister decided that the ban would be lifted on July 23 for a period of seven days to assess the fallout from the move.

The decision to allow MKs back at the site came after Glick, who has campaigned for Jewish rights at the site and was a frequent visitor there until the ban was enforced, filed a High Court of Justice court petition against the ban.

However, on July 14 three Arab-Israelis, armed with guns they had smuggled into the Temple Mount compound, emerged from the site and shot dead two policemen guarding at one of the entrances. The attackers fled back into the compound where they were killed by pursuing police.

In the wake of the attack, plans to lift the ban on MKs were put on hold and Israel installed walk-through metal detectors at entrances to the compound. Muslim leaders and the Palestinian Authority called on worshipers to refuse to pass through the detectors and boycott the Temple Mount until they were removed, claiming Israel was changing the status quo at the site. Prayer sessions were held at the entrances to the site and nearby passages instead and near-daily riots accompanied the developments.

The metal detectors were eventually removed along with any other new security measures and Muslim authorities called off the boycott, restoring calm.

In September 2015, tensions between Israelis and Palestinians escalated into near-daily attacks amid false speculation that Israel sought to change the status quo at the Temple Mount. Israel has repeatedly denied seeking any change to the arrangement. The site is managed by an Islamic foundation under the auspices of Jordan — the Waqf — but Israel controls access.