Thousands attend Passover priestly blessing at Western Wall (wailing wall) in tense Jerusalem. 2022

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The event ends peacefully as large numbers of police officers help secure the prayer ceremony in wake of recent violence in the capital
Thousands of people on Wednesday attended the week’s second iteration of a traditional prayer ceremony at the Western Wall, with authorities on alert for any potential escalation in an already tense Jerusalem.
Large numbers of police forces, including undercover officers, were deployed to secure the event in Jerusalem’s Old City, which started around 8:30 a.m. Numerous roads in the area were closed to traffic
The event ended peacefully, without any security incidents.
The semi-annual priestly blessing ceremony, known in Hebrew as “birkat kohanim,” is held on the intermediate days of the Passover and Sukkot festivals. It usually draws tens of thousands of worshippers, with crowds spilling out from the wall’s plaza into the surrounding areas.
This Passover ceremony was split into two days to prevent overcrowding, after 45 people were killed in a crush during a religious event at Mount Meron last year. The first prayer ceremony on Monday drew several thousand people, with turnout appearing quite low compared to previous years, amid heightened tensions in the capital.
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which administers the site, put turnout at around 10,000 for Wednesday’s event, with more worshipers appearing to attend than Monday.