YOUNG ISRAELIS ON THE ROAD ON YOM KIPPUR A DAY OF ATONEMENT, 2000-10-09 (photo)

Israeli on bicycles and rollerblades make their way down a Tel Aviv street October 9, 2000 during the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. The day is a 25-hour long period of fast and prayers which begins at sundown and in which Jews have to repent for their sins of the past year before God. Many young Israelis take bicycles onto the streets as no traffic is permitted on the roads. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has told Palestinian President Yasser Arafat he must end the wave of protests by Monday evening, a deadline which coincides with the end of the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday. HL/AA