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BBC News Published at a holy site in Israel happened as they marked the Jewish festival of Lag B Omer. While the tens of thousands who were at the event were predominantly ultra-Orthodox, Lag B Omer is a festival which is celebrated by all manner of Jewish communities around the world. The festival itself commemorates two historical events according to Jewish tradition: the passing of revered Second Century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who ordained that the anniversary of his death be a time of rejoicing at his life; and the end of a plague which killed some 24,000 students of another great rabbi, Akiva Ben Yosef (who lived around the same time as Bar Yochai).

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