Jewish worshippers take part in Slichot, a prayer in which Jews offer repentance and ask God to forgive their sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City September 16, 2018. Picture taken September 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad 

Members of the Czech Jewish Community write final words in a new Torah scroll during a ceremony in the medieval Old-New Synagogue in Prague March 19, 2017. REUTERS/David W Cerny 

A Jewish worshipper holds up a torah scroll during a mass prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner 

Moshe Solomon, a Holocaust survivor, holds a Torah scroll during a group Bar Mitzvah ceremony for Holocaust survivors at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City May 2, 2016. On Monday some 30 male survivors of the genocide celebrated the traditional Jewish coming of age ceremony, normally marked at the age of 13. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance with Torah scrolls during the celebrations of Simchat Torah in a synagogue at Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance with Torah scrolls during the celebrations of Simchat Torah in a synagogue at Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year.REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance with Torah scrolls during the celebrations of Simchat Torah in a synagogue at Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews hold Torah scrolls during the celebrations of Simchat Torah in a synagogue at Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year.REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

An ultra-Orthodox Jew dances with a Torah scroll during the celebrations of Simchat Torah in a synagogue at Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem October 5, 2015. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A rabbi holds a Torah scroll during the reopening ceremony of Nariman House, which was damaged during the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai August 26, 2014. Nariman House, home to the Mumbai chapter of the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement, was one of 10 sites attacked by gunmen during a 60-hour siege in the city that began on November 26, 2008. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

An Israeli soldier prays near the border with Gaza August 3, 2014. Israel on Sunday declared dead soldier Hadar Goldin, feared abducted by Hamas Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip and said it would continue to fight even after the army completes destroying cross-border tunnels used by Palestinian fighters to attack its territory. Hamas' armed wing said on Saturday it had no clear indication on Goldin's whereabouts and that he may have been killed during an ambush in the southern Gaza Strip in which two other Israeli soldiers were killed. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola (ISRAEL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS RELIGION CONFLICT) 

An Israeli soldier prays in front of a tank at a military staging area near the border with the Gaza Strip July 24, 2014. Israel won a partial reprieve from the economic pain of its Gaza war on Thursday with the lifting of a U.S. ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, as fighting pushed the Palestinian death toll over 700. A truce between the Jewish state and Hamas Palestinian fighters remained elusive despite intensive mediation bids. Palestinians said residents of two southern villages were trapped by days of tank shelling, with medics unable to evacuate wounded, and U.N. agencies said more than 140,000 people had been displaced. Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and said its gunmen carried out a lethal ambush on Israeli soldiers in north Gaza. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A Jewish woman prays during the joint funeral of the three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the occupied West Bank, in the Israeli city of Modi'in July 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of mourners joined in an outpouring of national grief on Tuesday at the burial of three Israeli teenagers, Gil-Ad Shaer, U.S.-Israeli national Naftali Fraenkel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19, whose kidnapping and killing Israel blamed on the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The Islamist group has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the disappearance of the students as they hitchhiked near a Jewish settlement on June 12 nor in the cross-border rocket salvoes from Gaza. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) 

A member of the Samaritan sect holds a Torah scroll during a traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus early morning April 20, 2014. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Rabbi carries Torah scrolls as others dance during Simhat Torah celebrations in a synagogue in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv September 26, 2013. The worshippers are marking the end of the annual cycle of the reading of the Torah and the beginning of the next cycle. REUTERS/ Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: RELIGION) 

Orthodox Jews take part in the Tashlich prayer, a Rosh Hashanah ritual, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in the southern city of Ashdod September 5, 2013. During the prayer, bread crumbs are tossed into the waters to symbolically cast away sins. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A member of the Samaritan sect holds a Torah scroll during their traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Shavuot, atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus early June 16, 2013. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION) 

A member of the Samaritan sect holds a Torah scroll during their traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Shavuot, atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus early June 16, 2013. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION) 

Jewish worshippers read the Torah inside the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, April 28, 2013.Africa's oldest synagogue is playing host to that rarity in the Arab world - a religious gathering of hundreds of Jews drawn from Europe and Israel. Guarded by armed Tunisian police, Jewish revellers chant and dance in a three-day pilgrimage to the El Ghriba synagogue at an island resort 500 km south of Tunis. REUTERS/Anis Mili (TUNISIA - Tags: RELIGION) 

A Jewish man holds the Torah during morning prayer at a synagogue in Budapest December 3, 2012. It is only relatively recently that Hungary's Jews have celebrated their identity as openly as they did when Europe's largest synagogue was built in Budapest in the 1850s. Now they are determined not to allow a political climate in which they have to defend that identity or even suppress it. Although anti-Semitism has not yet led to serious physical confrontations, hate crimes have included desecration of Jewish cemeteries and a verbal attack in Budapest on 90-year-old former Chief Rabbi Schweitzer. Picture taken December 3, 2012. To match HUNGARY-JEWS/ REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo (HUNGARY - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS SOCIETY) 

Holocaust survivor Israel Levin (3rd R) reads from a Torah scroll during his Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City October 22, 2012. On Monday a group of sixteen males survivors of the genocide, including Levin, celebrated the traditional Jewish coming of age ceremony, normally marked at the age of 13. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

A Jewish worshipper holds up a Torah scroll before the recitation of the priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, during the holiday of Sukkot in Jerusalem's Old City October 3, 2012. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION) 

A woman listens as men read the Torah on the first day of a pilgrimage at the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba May 9, 2012. The Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, home to most of Tunisia's Jews, is built on the site of a Jewish temple that is believed to date back almost 1,900 years and attracts pilgrims each year. REUTERS/Anis Mili (TUNISIA - Tags: RELIGION TRAVEL POLITICS) 

A woman and her daughter read the Torah on the first day of a pilgrimage at the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba May 9, 2012. The Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, home to most of Tunisia's Jews, is built on the site of a Jewish temple that is believed to date back almost 1,900 years and attracts pilgrims each year. REUTERS/Anis Mili (TUNISIA - Tags: RELIGION TRAVEL POLITICS) 

Jewish worshippers hold up a Torah scroll in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City during the holiday of Passover April 9, 2012. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION) 

Torah scribe, Eliyahu Levy, writes a portion from the Book of Esther, at his studio in Jerusalem March 6, 2012. The Book of Esther recounts the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia and is read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. Picture taken March 6, 2012. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

A Tunisian Jew reads from the Torah in a synagogue in Tunis October 26, 2011. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi (TUNISIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

Jewish worshippers covered with prayer shawls stand around a Torah scroll as they take part in the priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City October 16, 2011. The four species are used in rituals during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which began last week. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

Jewish worshippers hold the four species and a Torah scroll as they take part in the priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City October 16, 2011. The four species are used in rituals during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which began last week. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man takes part in prayers marking Tisha B'Av in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood August 8, 2011. Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting and lament, is traditionally the date in the Jewish calendar on which the First and Second Temples were destroyed, respectively in the sixth century B.C. by the Babylonians and the first century A.D. by the Romans. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in prayers marking Tisha B'Av in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood August 8, 2011. Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting and lament, is traditionally the date in the Jewish calendar on which the First and Second Temples were destroyed, respectively in the sixth century B.C. by the Babylonians and the first century A.D. by the Romans. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY) 

Burnt prayer books are seen inside a synagogue after arsonists set fire on them on the island of Corfu April 19, 2011. The fire damaged prayer books but caused no injuries, in the third such attack in Greece in less than two years, police said.The arson attack, staged just as the Passover festival was starting, alarmed the country's dwindling Jewish community. REUTERS/Icon/Stamatis Katapodis (GREECE - Tags: RELIGION CRIME LAW) 

A Jewish boy prays in Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus December 28, 2010. In coordination with the Palestinian forces that control Nabus, the Israeli army escorted hundreds of Jewish settlers and pilgrims to the ancient shrine on Tuesday morning. Believed to be the final resting place of the biblical patriach, Joseph's Tomb saw fierce Israeli-Palestinian fighting a decade ago. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS) 

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a burial ceremony in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv for Torah scrolls that were destroyed in a fire, October 7, 2010. Eleven torah scrolls were damaged in a fire that broke out in a synagogue during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot following a short circuit in the Holy Ark. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (ISRAEL - Tags: RELIGION DISASTER IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Israeli soldiers dance with Torah scrolls during the celebrations of Simchat Torah at the Eshkol regional council in the Negev September 30, 2010. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: MILITARY IMAGES OF THE DAY SOCIETY) 

A Jewish worshipper holds a Torah scroll before the recitation of the priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site,during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in Jerusalem's Old City September 26, 2010. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

An ultra orthodox Jewish man prays near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in the town of Uman, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Kiev, September 8, 2010. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman. REUTERS/ Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE - Tags: RELIGION) 

An Ultra-orthodox Jewish man prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in Jerusalem's Old City September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Baz Ratner(JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION) 

Ultra Orthodox students gesture as they pray during a reading class at the Kehilot Yaacov Torah School for boys in Ramot, Jerusalem June 24, 2010. Israel's ultra-Orthodox minority has long been at odds with the Jewish state's highest judicial authority over edicts which some devout Jews say interfere with their religious lifestyle. Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Israel last week against a court order to desegregate a religious school and force Jewish girls of European and Middle Eastern descent to study together. REUTERS/ Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS EDUCATION IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A member of the Samaritan sect holds up their Torah scroll atop Mount Gerizim during their traditional pilgrimage ceremony marking the holiday of Shavuot early May 5, 2010. The Samaritans, who trace their roots to the biblical Kingdom of Israel in what is now the northern occupied West Bank, observe religious practices similar to those of Judaism. REUTERS/Nir Elias (WEST BANK - Tags: RELIGION) 

A Jewish worshipper holds up a Torah scroll before the special priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Jewish holiday of Passover April 1, 2010. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: RELIGION) 

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays on the banks of a lake in the Ukrainian city of Uman, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Kiev, September 20, 2009. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE RELIGION) 

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays on the banks of a lake in the Ukrainian city of Uman, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Kiev, September 20, 2009. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE RELIGION) 

Ultra orthodox Jewish men pray on a street close to the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in the Ukrainian city of Uman, some 200 km (124 miles) south of Kiev, September 18, 2009. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive every year on Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, at Nachman's tomb in Uman. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin (UKRAINE RELIGION SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A Jewish worshipper holds up a Torah scroll during the priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City April 12, 2009. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM RELIGION IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE) 

Yemeni Jewish boys read the Torah at a Hebrew school in the northwestern Yemeni town of Raida February 20, 2009. Ten Jews from Raida, nine of them members of the same family, landed in Israel on Thursday after fleeing from Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN) 

Yemeni Jewish boys read the Torah at a Hebrew school in the northwestern Yemeni town of Raida February 20, 2009. Ten Jews from Raida, nine of them members of the same family, landed in Israel on Thursday after fleeing from Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN) 

Jewish boys read the Torah at a Hebrew school in the northwestern Yemeni town of Raida December 14, 2008. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN) 

Jewish settlers celebrate as they bring a new Torah scroll to a house they have occupied in the West Bank flashpoint city of Hebron December 1, 2008. Hardline Jewish settlers hunkered down in the house in Hebron on November 23, vowing to resist a court order to quit the property they insist they bought from a Palestinian. Some 150 settlers have been living in the building since 2007, saying they had purchased it from its Palestinian owner. Palestinian Faiz Rajabi has said the house is his and that he has papers to confirm the ownership. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK) 

Ultra-Orthodox children of the Jewish group Chabad Lubavitch pray for the well-being of Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg during class in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv November 27, 2008. Rabbi Holtzberg, an Israeli rabbi, is being held hostage in India by gunmen in a Mumbai apartment building after a series of attacks in the city that have killed at least 101 people, police said on Thursday. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL) 

A Jewish settler prays inside a building occupied by settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron November 20, 2008. Jewish settlers spray-painted graffiti insulting the Prophet Mohammad on the walls of a mosque on Thursday in the town of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian witness said. The mosque is located near a building in Hebron where some 150 settlers have been living since 2007. Israel's High Court ruled on Sunday they must vacate the structure, whose ownership is disputed and under review by a lower court. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK) 

Israelis soldiers carry Torah scrolls as they dance during Simhat Torah celebrations at Kibutz Mefalsim near the southern city of Sderot October 21, 2008. They are marking the end of the Sukkot holiday. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL) 

Israelis carry Torah scrolls as they dance during Simhat Torah celebrations in Israel's northern coastal city of Acre October 21, 2008. The worshipers are marking the end of the Sukkot holiday. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL) 

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. A Samaritan high priest raises the Torah scroll during a pilgrimage for the holy day of the Tabernacles or Sukkot, in Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, October 13, 2008. The Samaritan religion is an ancient form of Judaism believing in the One God of Israel, and the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. The whole community numbers about 700 people, half at Mount Gerizim and the others in Holon near Tel Aviv in Israel. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (WEST BANK) 

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holds a chicken as a boy prays during Kaparot in the Israeli city of Ashdod October 8, 2008, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which starts at sundown on Wednesday. Kaparot is an ancient custom connected to Yom Kippur, where white chickens are slaughtered as a symbolic gesture of atonement. The slaughtered chickens are then donated to the poor. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL) 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews recite prayers during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba-Omer on Meron mountain in northern Israel May 23, 2008. Israelis celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba-Omer which marks the end of a plague in the Middle Ages that killed thousands of disciples of a revered rabbi in the holy land. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL) 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray as they burn food containing leavening in Jerusalem, before the start of the Passover holiday, April 18, 2008. Passover commemorates the flight of the Jews from ancient Egypt as described in the Exodus. According to the account, the Jews did not have time to prepare leavened bread before fleeing to the Promised Land. REUTERS/GiL Cohen Magen (JERUSALEM) 

Jewish Rabbis write a new Scroll of the Torah at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem April 6, 2008.The new Scroll of the Torah will commemorate the eight students that were killed by Palestinian gunman in a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last month. It was the deadliest Palestinian attack on Israelis in two years and the first major attack in Jerusalem in four years. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (JERUSALEM) 

Moroccan Jewish pray at a synagogue in Tetouan, March 16, 2008. More than 100 Moroccan Jewish have celebrated the Hailoula ceremony in honour of saint rabbi Itshak Benoualid. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante(MOROCCO)