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Despite recent societal disagreements, Jews of all walks of Judaisim, soldiers and charedim alike, gathered on the fast of the 17th of Tammuz to daven and mourn by the Kotel, as the three week period leading up to the 9th of Av commences.

Credits: Chaim Schvarcz – Kuvien Images – www.kuvienimages.com

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