The ceremony will be broadcast live.
"After the ceremony, the fire will be delivered by representatives of the clergy from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, where it will be handed over to representatives of the embassies who will take it to Ben Gurion Airport and hand it over to foreign representatives arriving at the shrine," the head of the Department for Affairs quotes Diaspora and World Religions Israeli Foreign Ministry Akiva Torah TASS.
He specified that foreign delegations would not be able to leave their planes due to quarantine conditions.
Earlier, the head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, urged believers to prepare for the fact that this year the celebration of Easter could be limited to watching the broadcast of the patriarchal service on television without visiting the church.