A fresh beginning
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By the shores of the Mediterranean in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are silhouetted as they pray during Tashlich - a ceremony during which believers symbolically cast the sins of the previous year into the water.
They are celebrating the ritual ahead of Yom Kippur, a day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, which this year starts at sundown on September 13.