Jews in Israel took to prayer ahead of the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which this year will start at sunset on September 15.

Some visited an aquarium at a zoo in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak to perform the “Tashlich” ritual during which "sins are cast into the water to the fish".

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