As every year, the police will not allow a Passover sacrifice on the Temple Mount. As of now, no expulsions or preventive arrests have been made against the Temple Mount activists. One of the Temple Mount operators was summoned for questioning at the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office in the last day and at the end of the day he was released without restrictions. In the meantime, the 'Return to the Mount' movement published a notice of a financial grant to those who perform actions to sacrifice a victim on the Temple Mount, who will do "for the sake of the abductees" according to their definition. Those who are arrested on their way to the Temple Mount will receive - 250 shekels, and whoever is caught carrying it will win an even larger amount.
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a lucky person who makes a sacrifice on the Temple Mount will win 50 thousand shekels
Holding a Priests' Blessing event at the Western Wall Square that will take place on April 25 in the morning, and will also increase its activity around the Old City and its alleys, along the routes of the worshipers' movement and at the Western Wall.
At the beginning of the month, the 'Return to the Temple Mount' movement asked the Minister of National Security, Ben Gabir, for an official escort to a meeting to be held between them and the police regarding the Passover sacrifice to the Temple Mount. "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."
Every year, the police reject the request of the activists to make a sacrifice on the Temple Mount 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."
Minister Ben Gabir has already been asked about the issue in the past and replied that he supports the ascent to the Temple Mount, but disapproves of offering a Passover sacrifice on the mount. He did not honor the request of movement activists to return to the mountain, and the police do not allow the Passover sacrifice ceremony this year either.