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13 Arrested on Temple Mount as Jews Attempt to “Sacrifice” Shavuot Bread Offering
Israeli police arrested 13 people Friday after they broke through security barriers and forced their way onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, attempting to perform the Biblically mandated grain offering to mark the festival of Shavuot. The arrests came hours before the holiday began at sundown, and initial reports misidentified the ritual items as preparation for an animal sacrifice. What the group actually carried onto the holy site were two loaves of bread.
The suspects breached security and ran into the compound in an attempt to perform the ritual before being stopped by authorities, police said. No animals were present. According to the Ynet news site, the group brought loaves of chametz — leavened bread — made from freshly harvested wheat, the centerpiece of the Shavuot grain offering.
Iran’s parliament votes to put a price on Trump’s head, and it’s not the first time
A senior Iranian lawmaker announced Thursday that Iran’s parliament is advancing legislation to offer a €50 million ($58.13 million) government reward for the assassination of President Donald Trump. Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told Iranian state television that the bill is part of a broader package of military and security countermeasures developed since the outbreak of the March war. The measure, if passed, would legally obligate the Iranian government to pay the reward to any person or organization that kills Trump.
Azizi named two additional targets alongside Trump: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the commander of US Central Command.
“We believe the vile president of the United States, the ominous and disgraceful Zionist prime minister, and the CENTCOM commander must be targeted and subjected to reciprocal action,” Azizi said. He framed the proposed bounty in explicitly religious terms: “Just as our Imam was martyred, the president of the United States must be dealt with by any Muslim or free person.”
The legislation states that “if any natural or legal person carries out this religious and ideological mission, the government is obliged to pay €50 million as a reward.”
This is a formal legislative proposal, advanced by the chairman of the parliament’s national security committee, broadcast on state television, and framed as both state policy and religious duty.