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    Hundreds flock to Africa's oldest synagogue for Lag Ba'omer

    Hundreds of Jewish worshippers flocked to Africa's oldest synagogue in Tunisia on Wednesday, reviving an annual pilgrimage after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, AFP reported.

    Pilgrims passed through airport-style scanners and passed a heavy, armed police guard to enter the Ghriba synagogue on the southern Tunisian resort island of Djerba.

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