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Crowds gather around bonfires in Jerusalem to celebrate the ultra-Orthodox Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer. Lag BaOmer marks the anniversary of the death of Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai around 1,900 years ago. Authorities have cancelled the traditional pilgrimage near the Lebanon border due to hostilities with Hezbollah.

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