Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel’s Jerusalem celebrated the Lag BaOmer Festival, which falls on the 33rd day of the Omer Counting. As part of the festivities, many Jews kindled bonfires in the West Bank city of Modi’in Illit.
The holiday includes multiple rituals and activities, such as the lighting of bonfires, pilgrimage to the grave of the bar Yochai in the northern Israeli town of Meron, and other various customs at the tomb itself.