ISRAEL. Jerusalem. October 1967. Kaparot (atonement ritual). The Mea Shearim Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem, on the eve of the Yom Kippur religious festivities, a man carries a chicken to be ritually slaughtered to repent his sins.On the day of Atonement it is the custom to take a live chicken home to be slaughtered according to 'kaparote' tradition, which will symbolically transfer his sins to the bird and swing it in a circle above his head to disperse these sins.The principle is that of the ancient scapegoat custom, in which the high priest of the Temple would transfer the community's sins to a goat and sent it off into the desert.The chicken, however will be slaughtered and eaten.