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Ultra-Orthodox Jews dressed in costumes celebrate Purim in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood. The carnival-like Purim holiday is celebrated with parades and costume parties to commemorate the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian empire 2,500 years ago, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. IMAGES
Ultra-Orthodox worshippers gather at Mount Meron in northern Israel to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer marking the anniversary of the death of the Talmudic sage, a year after 45 people were crushed to death in a stampede during the annual pilgrimage. IMAGES
Thousands of members of a section of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest in downtown Jerusalem in rejection of a top court ruling that calls for them to be drafted into military service. Israel's top court ruled unanimously that the state must draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, potentially destabilising Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition. IMAGES
Israeli police disperse a few dozen ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a road in Jerusalem during a demonstration against their conscription into the military. The protest took place as Israel's top court held a hearing session to strike down the decades-old exemption of Jewish men from army service. IMAGES
Thousands flag-waving Jewish nationalists gather at the Western Wall, the terminus of the so-called Jerusalem Day flag march which commemorates the Israeli army's capture of the city's eastern sector in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI34VB9F2_EN
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