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Rabbis circle Israel to ward off H1N1 flu

One-upping chicken soup, 50 rabbis and Jewish mystics have taken to the skies over Israel in a bid to keep the H1N1 swine flu virus at bay, according to news accounts.

In a plane flight Monday, the group chanted prayers from the Kabbalah and blew shofars, the ceremonial ram horns, while circling Israel.

One rabbi told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the flight aimed "to stop the pandemic so people will stop dying from it. We are certain that, thanks to the prayer, the danger is already behind us."

Five Israelis have died so far out of the more than 2,000 cases reported nationwide.

Because Judaism considers pigs unclean and forbids eating pork, Israelis usually call the flu "H1N1."

Earlier this year, the deputy health minister tried unsuccessfully to get the bug's common name changed. Because Judaism considers pigs unclean, he wanted H1N1 to be called "Mexican flu" because of where it was initially detected.

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