JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s chief rabbis said in a signed declaration that it is not prohibited for Jews to visit the Temple Mount.

Chief Rabbis David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef are reiterating a position that the chief rabbinate has held since the 1920s, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook, the first Ashkenazic chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, banned Jews from ascending the Temple Mount, fearing that Jews might step into an area that is forbidden under Jewish law.

The declaration also was signed by rabbis from the national religious movement, as well as some former chief rabbis, according to the Jerusalem Post.

More religious Jews have in recent years visited the Temple Mount, with the sanction of some national religious rabbis, who say it is possible to avoid the areas that it is prohibited to enter without the proper purification ritual, which is not possible to perform today.