Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children perform the Tashlich ritual before the start of Yom Kippur, in Netanya, Israel. Tashlich is the practice by which Jews go to a large body of water, preferably one containing fish, and symbolically cast of their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into the water. AFP

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