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Mansur Mirovalev

Jewish pilgrims flock to historic Ukrainian city despite war with Russia

A Hasidic pilgrim walks towards the grave of Rabbi Nachman who died in Uman city in 1810 [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]

Uman, Ukraine – David Meinhart is confident he arrived in the safest place on Earth.

He is in Uman, a city in central Ukraine that annually hosts tens of thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

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