A record number of tourists who arrived in Israel for the High Holy days–many of them at the eleventh hour–were given a cordial reception in overflow synagogues throughout the country. Hundreds of the tourists were guests at the homes of Cabinet Ministers and Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim, whilc several thousand visitors made the pilgrimage to Mount Zion where they participated in the Tashlich rites (ceremony of the casting off of sins) at a well near the traditional tomb of King David.
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