But the authorities remain braced.
The city is tense and rumours are circulating - as they often do.
One of them centres on an old Jewish prophecy about the Temple Mount. An 18th century rabbinical one that says when the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City is restored for the third time, then work will begin on rebuilding the Jewish Temple itself.
The Hurva Synagogue was built in the 1700s and rebuilt in the early 1800s. The Jordanians destroyed it again in 1948. It will be rededicated Today.
The police are concerned that the dedication of the restored Hurva Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter today could heighten tensions in the Old City.
Leading Fatah official Abd el-Kader called on all Israeli Arabs to “converge on al Aksa to save it” from what he called “Israeli attempts to destroy the mosque and replace it with the [Jewish] temple.” He called rededication of the Hurva Synagogue a “provocation” and warned Israel that it was “playing with fire.”
The Jewish Temple has also been destroyed twice, most recently by the Romans in the first century AD where it stood where the Dome of the Rock, Islam's third most holy shrine stands today. A rabbinical authority Vilna Goan predicted the Third Temple's construction will begin when the Hurva Synagogue's renovation is complete.
The prophecy is likely to be the source of the rumour circulating among Palestinians in East Jerusalem that a cornerstone for the Third Temple will be laid some time this week.
Plenty of reasons to continue predicting a riot in the weeks ahead.
