This is reported on Ynet, so I don't know if it is reliable or not - visitors to parks are being checked for chametz this holiday.
In some places they checks for knives and guns before allowing entry into a public area. In other places they check for religious contraband (Har Habayit), and at parks they now check for bread and pretzels.
I remember hearing from a "kiruv professional" that the two most impressive statistics regarding religion in Israel were the percentages of people who observe (in some way) Yom Kippur (fasting) and Pesach (the seder, and staying away from chametz). This "kiruv professional" said that the reason the percentage on these items is so high is because there is no law obligating it - if there were a law, people would become antagonistic to fasting on Yom Kippur and to observing Pesach.
So now we are checking for sandwiches the way TSA checks for baby bottles before getting onto an airplane?
These security guards are very machmir about their bedikas chametz. They do their bedika from erev pesach all the way through the chag. longest bedika I ever heard of!
Nothing good can come of this.
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