On video: Ben Gvir ascended the Temple Mount: "This is the place where we need to return and show governance"/Temple Mount Administration
Passover is on the Temple Mount. Today, the 'Return to the Temple Mount' movement stepped up and asked the Minister of National Security, Ben Gabir, for an official escort to a meeting to be held between them and the police. "So that the Israel Police can hold the event and the proposal is not rejected outright, political intervention by the minister is necessary," the movement's members wrote in their letter. "Therefore, we ask the minister to send a representative on his behalf to a meeting that will take place between representatives of the Hareim movement and the Israel Police."
"He was an active participant himself for many years in the struggle to renew the Passover sacrifice." Ben Gabir in his youth at a demonstration for her ascent to the Temple Mount/Omer Miron
As every year, in preparation for the Passover holiday that will take place next month, some of the movements for Jewish ascent to the Temple Mount are calling for a sacrifice to be allowed on the Temple Mount, an initiative that is outright rejected every year by the police due to the violation of the customary status quo on the Mount. The police sometimes even make preventive arrests of activists from these movements. In the 'Return to the Temple Mount' movement, they chose to turn to minister Ben Gabir, because they knew he would sympathize with the effort: "The minister and his entourage are not only in favor of renewing the Passover sacrifice," their letter reads, "he was an active participant himself for many years in the struggle to renew the Passover sacrifice."
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So will we see a sacrificial ceremony on the Temple Mount this year? probably not. Aliya movements to the Temple Mount have already contacted Minister Ben Gabir on the issue, a few months after he began serving as Minister of National Security, on the eve of Passover 2023. When asked about this in interviews, he replied that he supports the ascent to the Temple Mount, but he disapproves of offering a Passover sacrifice on Mt.
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