is also expressed by Arab phrases such as "there are bread and salt between us" ( or ), and "salt between them" () which are terms of alliance. Jewish culture A similar practice also exists among Jews in the Diaspora and in Israel. After the ceremony of Kiddush, a piece of Challah is dipped in salt and eaten. The Challah is a staple food eaten on special occasions, like holidays and weddings, as well as every Saturday. Bread and salt were also used in the past at welcoming ceremonies, given to respected persons. Iranian culture In the Iranian culture when a guest is welcomed into the home, it's said that they have eaten bread and salt, and this leads to loyalty of the guest. United Kingdom In Northern England and Scotland the tradition is observed on New Year's Day, where the first individual to enter a house may be required by tradition to bring bread, salt and coal. In space With the advent of the Soviet space program, this tradition has spread into space, where appropriately small packages of bread and salt are used nowadays. It was observed at the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project and the Salyut programme, when crackers and salt tablets were used in the spaceship. Bread chunks and salt were used as a welcome at the Mir space station, a tradition that was extended on the International Space Station. Bread and salt are also used to welcome cosmonauts returning to Earth. In fiction The custom of serving bread and salt to guests is a recurring reference in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, where the welcome ritual serves not only as a Westerosi tradition of hospitality, but also a formal assurance of "guest right", a sacred bond of trust and honor guaranteeing that nobody in attendance, hosts and guests alike, shall be harmed. Violating the guest right is widely considered among the highest moral crimes, an affront worthy of the worst damnation, rivaled only by kinslaying. Game of Thrones, the associated television series, prominently features the tradition in season three, episode 9, "The Rains of Castamere". In Season 2, Episode 4 of Peaky Blinders, Alfie Solomons offers Charles Sabini bread and salt as Sabini offers a white flag of truce. Rudyard Kipling referenced bread and salt in a number of works. In The Ballad of East and West, leavened bread and salt is