The truck, equipped with powerful speakers and projectors of all colors, enters Méa Shéarim.
And suddenly, the narrow, austere street, the center of this ultra-Orthodox Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, turns into a huge nightclub track.
On the platform of the vehicle, dancers, in full parade costume, golden Damascus silk caftans and sable fur hats -
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- unleash themselves to traditional Eastern European music swollen with deafening beats.
At their feet, men, barely teenagers or not yet adults, crowd and jump in great bursts of laughter, covered in sweat.
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