The Passover celebration began last night, and yesterday afternoon police arrested a man allegedly preparing in an illegal way. From the Jerusalem Post:
Jerusalem District police officers detained extreme right-wing activist Noam Federman Monday afternoon, after he was caught driving his vehicle with a kid – a young, male goat – in his car.
Federman is suspected of intending to ritually slaughter the animal in the recently renovated Hurva Synagogue located near the Temple Mount in the Old City.
Police said right wing activists threatened repeatedly this week to come up to the Temple Mount and conduct ritual slaughter there during the Pessah holiday. They also suspect Federman was planning to slaughter the animal on the Temple Mount proper, and not in the synagogue.
Federman was taken in for interrogation and the innocent animal was transferred to the Agricultural Development Unit in the Agriculture Ministry.
This article raises several questions in my mind. How did police know the goat was in Federman’s car? Is there a law against having a goat in your car? Is there a law against having a goat in your car with certain intentions in your mind? How does the reporter know that the animal is innocent?
The full story is here.
4 thoughts on “Man with Goat Arrested before Passover”
Hilarious.
maybe the cop is a mindreader. or maybe the driver was waving his knife in the air at the goat in a threatening way…
Presumption of innocence include goats, don't you?
Unfortunately, some of these groups are just about nuts and will do anything to advance their religion fueled cause.
For example:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=172008