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Ultra-Orthodox Jews collect water from a mountain spring near Jerusalem to be used in baking unleavened bread, known as Matzoth, during the Maim Shelanu (Rested Water) ceremony on April 2, 2015. Due to the haste with which the Jews left Egypt some 3,500 years ago, the bread they had prepared for the journey did not have time to rise, therefore to commemorate their ancestors’ plight, religious Jews do not eat leavened food products throughout the eight-day Pesach holiday (Passover). AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX