JERUSALEM - OCTOBER 01: An ultra-Orthodox Jew inspects a Lulav, one of the Four Species which will be used during the rituals of the upcoming festival of Sukkot, on October 1, 2009, in the religious Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel. The eight-day Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles, which begins tomorrow evening October 2, 2009, commemorates the biblical Hebrews' 40 years of wandering in the desert after the exodus from Egypt some 3,200 years ago. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

JERUSALEM - OCTOBER 01: An ultra-Orthodox Jew inspects a Lulav, one of the Four Species which will be used during the rituals of the upcoming festival of Sukkot, on October 1, 2009, in the religious Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Israel. The eight-day Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles, which begins tomorrow evening October 2, 2009, commemorates the biblical Hebrews' 40 years of wandering in the desert after the exodus from Egypt some 3,200 years ago.

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