Thousands Gather for Annual Birkas Kohanim at Kosel on Chol Hamoed

(REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

Thousands gathered at the Kosel on Wednesday morning, the first day of Chol Hamoed in the Diaspora, for the mass Birkas Kohanim ceremony.

The Ashkenazi and Sephardic Chief Rabbis, Harav David Lau and Harav Yitzchak Yosef, joined the tefillos.

(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Hundreds of police officers, Border Police officers and volunteers have been deployed throughout the city of Yerushalayim, with an emphasis on the Old City area and the traffic routes in the area.

(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

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