Israeli Jews observe festival of Sukkot in Jerusalem Israeli Jews celebrated Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, on Sunday in a week-long holiday which is one of the three pilgrimage festivals when Jews visit Jerusalem. Thousands of Jews make the week-long pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall every year, to commemorate the desert wanderings of the Israelites after their exodus from Egypt. During the festivities, they pray and get blessed by the Kohanim (priests of the temple) while holding the four plant species, palm leave stalk, citrus, myrtle and willow-branches, which represent the diversity of the Israelites. IMAGES