On the first day of Rosh Hashanah last week, a group of Jews smuggled shofarot onto the Temple Mount and, despite police efforts to stop them, blew all of the requisite shofar blasts for the holiday.
Josh Wander, a resident of the Mount of Olives said, “The sound was not very loud or beautiful, but it was the first time a shofar had been sounded at Judaism’s holiest site since the Second Temple was destroyed.”
Worshippers continued praying and blowing the shofar despite repeated attempts by the police to confiscate the shofars and removed at least six men from the Temple Mount. Despite this, all of the requisite one hundred shofar blasts were completely sounded. Nobody was charged and all shofarot were returned.