You know when you are in the Middle East when someone gets appointed to a ministerial position in your government and to celebrate he announces he is going to throw a party in which he will have 68 sheep slaughtered and roasted, according to the number of years of the existence of the State.



And then, not only did Ayoub Kara announce that upon being appointed as Minister (without Portfolio), but he further clarified that all the sheep would be slaughtered in a kosher mehadrin method so that his Jewish friends, including rabbonim, could partake in the celebration.