WATCH: Massive sunrise prayers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Sukkot is one of three annual Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

Today, in modern Israel, thousands still flock to the remaining retaining wall of the Temple Mount on the festival, bringing with them the traditional greenery required by the holiday.

This video, shot by Israel’s Channel 7, brings you up close for a dawn-time minyan (prayer quorum) at the ‘Kotel’ – the Western Wall.

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