Tens of thousands of people - 35,000, according to Israel Radio - participated in the semi-annual Birkat Cohanim ceremony at the Western Wall plaza today. The event takes place twice each year, on the 3rd or 4th day of the Sukkot and Pesach holidays. It features special holiday prayers in which up to hundreds of Cohanim - descendants of Aaron the Priest - jointly blessing the congregants. At the same time, dozens of religious Jews visited the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site for which the Western Wall serves as a supporting outside wall.