Israel lacks its usual holiday spirit amid new coronavirus lockdown
In the Jewish state, Jews from across the religious spectrum are feeling an aching loss for the spiritual highlights of the year.
Boys watch as an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man performs the Kaparot ritual, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, as Israel is set to tighten its second nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown amid a rise in (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS)
