Passover typically draws crowds of Israelis outside to burn heaps of bread, commemorating the Biblical exodus from slavery in Egypt. Now under lockdown, the streets of Jerusalem and other cities are nearly empty on the first day of the week-long holiday
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man wears a face mask for protection related to the coronavirus as he burns leaven in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 8, 2020. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Police have thrown up roadblocks and will deploy drones and helicopters to enforce curbs on movement throughout the lockdown, a spokesman said. A rabbi accompanied by a firefighter tossed a long, fire-tipped stick onto a patch of flammable liquid leading to a pile of the leavened bread products, many still in plastic bags, engulfing the mound in smoke and flames.One Jerusalem man, Daniel Arusti, disposed of a paper bread box in one of the dumpsters outside his house, instead of gathering with his ultra-Orthodox community to burn it in public.
But in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighbourhood of Mea Shearim, some Israelis flouted the restrictions and gathered in small groups or by themselves to burn leaven alongside the district’s sandstone homes and concrete walls.
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