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Friday, April 19, 2024
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Organizing committee of Jewish pilgrimage in Tunisia cancels annual celebrations
Djerba synagogue is seen in Djerba, Tunisia, April 12, 2002. The Tunisian Interior Ministry says a naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday, May 9, 2023, near the synagogue during an annual Jewish pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)
The organizing committee of a Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia’s Djerba synagogue canceled the annual celebration due to the war in Gaza, the head of the organizing committee Perez Trabelsi tells Reuters on Friday.
Trabelsi adds that the annual pilgrimage will be reduced to limited rituals only inside the synagogue and expects a very small number to arrive from France due to the tense situation in the Middle East.
“How do we celebrate when people die every day?” he says.
