Holidays

This holiday celebrates the Giving of the Torah.   In modern Israel, Shavuot also celebrates the spring harvest and it is often referred to as the Holiday of First Fruits. Shavuot comes seven weeks after Pesach. Fruit baskets are particularly

Independence Day is the observance of the declaration of Israeli statehood in May of 1948.   Independence Day is a bank holiday. (*) back

Memorial Day commemorates the fallen soldiers in Israel’s wars and the fallen victims of terror.   The day opens with a two minute siren sounding all over the country on the preceding evening at 20:00 (8:00 pm) and again in

Also known as Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah, Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day.   This is Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and

Pesach (Passover), or the Feast of Unleavened Bread, recalls the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. It is celebrated by first cleansing the home of all leavening and leavened products in the days before the holiday, and begins with

This is a merry holiday celebrating the story in the book of Esther. It is a time for masquerades, carnivals, parties, plays, and parades. back

This is the holiday for the planting of trees in Israel and there are many tree-planting ceremonies. Fruit and nuts of the season make an appropriate gift.   It is also called, Rosh HaShanah La’Ilanot, literally, ‘New Year of the

Chanukah or Hanukkah is known as the Festival of Lights. Candles are lit each night for eight nights to remember when Judah the Maccabee and his outnumbered band of Jewish warriors recaptured the Temple in Jerusalem from the Syrians in