More than 3,000 people had already encircled the effigy of the man in a temporary desert city in the Negev for the ecstatic climax of the 5-day Israeli Burning Man Festival. It was a wanton ceremony of fire twirlers and African drums, marking the first time Israel hosted a regional event that was officially sanctioned by the yearly Burning Man Festival in Nevada.
Yet after months of negotiations, prior approvals from a litany of fire marshals, building engineers, and practically every bureaucratic safety official in the Negev region, at the last moment police yanked permission to burn the art installations. It threatened to become a Burning Man festival without the actual burning of the man.
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From Tablet Magazine
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