Algemeiner Editor-in-Chief Dovid Efune. Photo: Screenshot.

The Israeli public is “very concerned” about the lifting — in the face of Arab pressure — of security measures that were put in place at the Temple Mount following a recent terrorist attack there, the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner said during an i24 News interview on Wednesday.

Israelis, Dovid Efune noted, “are wondering, ‘Why do they want these measures removed?’ They’re seeing it as a silent, or not-so-silent support, for the acts that are going to be enabled if these measures are removed — for the terror acts and for the ability to conduct terror acts.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now must seek to “come up with a solution that is going to solve the problem, keep the site safe and, hopefully, reduce tensions at the same time,” Efune went on to say.

Watch an excerpt from Efune’s appearance on the “Crossroads” program — hosted by Michelle Makori and Shayna Estulin — below:

In #Israel removal of #TempleMount metal detectors is viewed as enabling violence & terror, @Efune tells @MichelleMakori & @ShaynaEstulin12 pic.twitter.com/DqthMnYbfC

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) July 26, 2017