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Every year the Women in Green organization (led by Ruth and Nadia Matar) lead a massive march of Jewish people in a circle around the entire Old City Walls - it is one of the most inspiring of experiences - and often draws in excess of 10,000 participants. Here is a video from the march in 2007. Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av) is a full day of mourning and prayer commemorating the destruction of the Jewish Temples on the Har HaBayit (Temple Mounts). It is the only other full day of fasting...
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