Update on the Temple Mount

Earlier this month, a group of Jewish Temple Mount activists sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking him to allow them to offer the ritual Passover on the Temple Mount to end the coronavirus pandemic.  I have not seen any reports that the rite took place on the location.  However, more information is available concerning those individuals who were behind the request.  Several leaders, including Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, and Rabbi Menachem Makover all supported the endeavor.  Last year the Jewish Passover was celebrated in a variety of ways in Jerusalem, which included priests from the Jewish Temple Institute enacting a sacrifice of a lamb from an area overlooking the mount.  Those calling for the offering of the Passover lamb this year had argued that an altar could be placed on the mount and the Passover offering carried out.