Finance Minister Silvan Shalom signed a document authorizing the Chief Rabbis of Israel to sell the country\'s \"chametz\"/leavened products to a non-Jewish resident of the Arab town of Abu Ghosh, west of Jerusalem. Minister Shalom said at the ceremony that in previous years, he has just been responsible for burning his personal \"chametz\", and never thought that he would be a main participant in a ceremony selling the national chametz on the eve of Passover.