Israeli police block Palestinian worshippers and protesters in the Old City of Jerusalem, during riots in and around the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on September 13, 2015. (Flash90)

(JTA) — Israel lifted restrictions that it imposed last month on access by Muslim worshipers to the Temple Mount.

Israel Police dispensed with the limitations, which it put in place amid an upsurge in terrorist attacks by Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, on Friday morning and is allowing Muslim men and women of all ages to enter the compound, Israel Radio reported Friday.

The Temple Mount, which contains both the Haram a-Sharif mosque and the Western Wall, saw repeated disturbances in recent weeks, in which Palestinian men staged riots and clashed with security forces. As a result, only women and men older than 45 years were allowed in.

Jews are prevented from praying on the Temple Mount.

On Thursday, 120 rabbis, including the chief Sephardi and Ashkenazi rabbis of Israel, Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau respectively, reiterated in a written statement their rabbinic ruling forbidding Jews from worshiping on the Temple Mount.

“Recently, there have been claims the prohibition on doing go is no more,” the rabbis wrote in the statement, obtained by Army Radio. “So we reiterate our warning lest either man or woman enter the Temple Mount. There is a strong commandment of fear and observance of the Temple.”

Separately, Border Police officers arrested in Jerusalem’s Nof Tzion neighborhood a Palestinian man they said had come there from the city’s eastern part to stab Jews, Israel Radio also reported. Earlier on Friday, a Palestinian man was wounded in a struggle with Israeli soldiers after he tried to stab one of them, Army Radio reported.

On Thursday, Hamas issued a call for a “day of rage” on Friday, a term which often translates to clashes with security forces and armed attacks.