Why did the Chief Rabbi suddenly blast MK Itamar Ben Gvir over his Har Habayis entry?

MK Itamar Ben Gvir has been going up to the Har Ha'bayit for years making a public scene, it was never a secret, so why now?

 The truth is that the Chief Rabbi,  Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, could care less whether Jews go up to Har Habayit, just like he could care less about the Gerer Pogroms. In fact it is the Sfardi Rabbis primarily that feel that it is a mitzvah to go up to the Har Habayis,  they follow the Rambam who made a Yom Tov every year on the anniversary of his ascent with his father and brother. Belzer Chusid R' Elbaum goes up every Rosh Chodesh as well. 

So what happened that the Chief Rabbi publicly chastised Ben Gvir? 

One of his reasons is that he feels that Ben Gvir is instigating the Arabs, but that makes no sense because Rav Yosef himself has made outrageous and shocking statements about the Arabs

Rav Yitzchok Yosef said that non-Jews who don't accept Judaism's basic laws for humanity " should be expelled from Israel and sent to Saudi Arabia. But Jews will hold off on doing that until the messianic age because in the meantime Israel needs non-Jews as servants.

“Who will be the servers? Who will be our assistants?” Yitzhak Yosef said. “Therefore, we leave them here in the land.”

How do the Arabs feel about this statement?

Rav Yosef also claimed that Ben Gvir's going up to the Har Habayit is a "Chillul Hashem" Why is that a "chillul Hashem?" Why can't a Jew whose rabbis permit go on the Har Habayit?That's like saying that is a Jew living in Eretz Yisrael is a "chillul Hashem"

So what happened now that he publicly condemned him?

That's why you need to read DIN to get the news behind the news.

You see, Ben Gvir according to  the latest polls is going to have over 10 seats. 

So where are these new voters coming from? 

You guessed it, from the Chareidie parties! 

The Chareidim are panicking because if Gvir gets 10 seats or more, that will take seats away from Degel and the rest of the Chareidie parties. So they sent the dogs out to denigrate Ben Gvir. 

Ben Gvir as opposed to the other Chareidie MKs is an honest straight forward guy who says what he means, and means what he says, but that doesn't bode well for the Chareidie MKs, so they begged the Chief Rabbi  to humiliate him since both Ben Gvir and Rav Yosef are sfardim. Hopefully the voters will see thru these shenanigans and vote their conscience 

The Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, on Saturday night launched a scathing attack against those who ascend the Temple Mount, contrary to the opinion of all the great rabbis of Israel.

"Rabbi So-and-So allowed entry to the Temple Mount. What is he, not a rabbi? Fool. Is everyone called Gadol Torah (a great rabbi)?" Rabbi Yosef said during a lesson.

"Who forbade entry to the Temple Mount? All the great rabbis of the generation. The same one who allows it today, that all the rabbis, these young people, rely on, is he at the same level as the great rabbis who forbade it?"