Ultra Orthodox Jews pray as they do Tashlich ("casting off"), a Jewish practice performed on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, at the haYarkon river in Tel Aviv on October 06, 2011. It is customary to throw pieces of bread into a large, natural body of flowing water to "cast away" the sins of the past year and resolve to be a better in the year to come. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90. **YATED NEEMAN & KIKAR SHABAT & KOOKER OUT**

Shas spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef speaks at a gathering of the Migdal Or foundation, headed by Rabbi Grossman, who's sitting to his right. The foundation brough thousand of young men to the western wall for Slichot. Oct 6 2011. Photo by yaakov Naumi/Flash90. **YATED NEEMAN & KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Shas spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Grossman who speaks at an even organized by his foundation Migdal Or. The foundation brough thousand of young men to the western wall for Slichot. Oct 6 2011. Photo by yaakov Naumi/Flash90. **YATED NEEMAN & KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Young men pray aloud at slichot, with thousands of othere who were brought to the western wall by the foundation of Migdal Or. Oct 6 2011. Photo by yaakov Naumi/Flash90. **YATED NEEMAN & KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Many people arrived at the western wall to pray on the days leading to Yom Kipur. The Day of Atonement (Yom Kipur) beginning this Friday night and ending Saterday at sunset. Yom Kipur is a fast day in which Jews believe g-d signs off on the metaphoric book of fates, and sentences each and every person for the year to comeOr. Oct 6 2011. Photo by yaakov Naumi/Flash90. **YATED NEEMAN & KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during the ritual of Tashlich on October 6, 2011. Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water and the fish, and it is performed one day before the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, is a 25-hour period of fasting and intense reflection and prayers where the central theme is atonement that begins tomorrow after sunset. Photo by Yaakov Naumi / Flash90 **YATED NEEMAN AND KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during the ritual of Tashlich on October 6, 2011. Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water and the fish, and it is performed one day before the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, is a 25-hour period of fasting and intense reflection and prayers where the central theme is atonement that begins tomorrow after sunset. Photo by Yaakov Naumi / Flash90 **YATED NEEMAN AND KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during the ritual of Tashlich on October 6, 2011. Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water and the fish, and it is performed one day before the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, is a 25-hour period of fasting and intense reflection and prayers where the central theme is atonement that begins tomorrow after sunset. Photo by Yaakov Naumi / Flash90 **YATED NEEMAN AND KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray on the banks of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv during the ritual of Tashlich on October 6, 2011. Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water and the fish, and it is performed one day before the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar, is a 25-hour period of fasting and intense reflection and prayers where the central theme is atonement that begins tomorrow after sunset. Photo by Yaakov Naumi / Flash90 **YATED NEEMAN AND KIKAR SHABAT OUT**

**FILE** Israeli singer Evyatar Banai performs at a concert on October 06, 2011. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90. **YATED NEEMAN & KIKAR SHABAT & KOOKER OUT**