During Passover or Sukkot, religious Jews are often caught in the vicinity of the Temple Mount with goats or lambs that they intend to offer as a sacrifice to God on Mount Moriah.
The adventurous attempt to sacrifice an animal above the Western Wall, right next to the mosques, has now become a ritual in itself. As with 20-year-old Yair Hanoch. He really wanted to offer an animal sacrifice where the Temple once stood. After his arrest, he declared: “There is no longer any room for Muslim rule on the Temple Mount. The time has come to build the Temple and revive the sacrifices.”
See: “The Time Has Come”: Jews Arrested En Route to Temple Mount Sacrifice
Anyone who has this intention will initially have to deal with a logistical problem. First you must travel with a concealed goat on the light rail toward Jerusalem’s Old City, then you need to somehow smuggle the animal past...
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