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The Lag B'omer Celebration on Djerba is Cancelled
By Yisrael Rosner
The Staff for the Fight Against Terror issues yearly warnings before the Jewish community's Lag B'omer celebration in Djerba, Tunisia, which commences from Pesach Sheini until Lag B'omer, attracting huge masses of Jews from all over the world, including from Israel. This year, the Staff omitted this warning. The Jewish community in Tunisia, headed by their chief rabbi, HaRav Chaim Bitan, imposed upon themselves a quarantine to fend off the plague from their community.
The Jewish community in Tunisia is concentrated in a large Jewish quarter in Djerba, composed entirely of Torah- observant Jews. Some 1,200 there Jews are estimated to adhering very strictly to a tradition of millennia.
As of now, 884 Tunisians have contracted the disease, with 38 fatalities, none of which were in the Jewish community.
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