A Hebrew translation of the song is a common element in the Passover seder in Israel.

The inability of the messengers to reach communities outside Israel before mid-month High Holy Days ( Succot and Passover ) led outlying communities to celebrate scriptural festivals for two days rather than one, observing the second feast-day of the Jewish diaspora because of uncertainty of whether the previous month ended after 29 or 30 days.

In ancient Israel, the start of the ecclesiastical new year for the counting of months and festivals ( i. e. Nisan ) was determined by reference to Passover.

Hezekiah also resumed the Passover pilgrimage and the tradition of inviting the scattered tribes of Israel to take part in a Passover festival.

Outside Israel, Passover is celebrated for eight days.

* Passover ( Hebrew: Pesach, פסח ) ( first days ) — 15 ( and outside Israel 16 ) Nisan

* Shevi ' i shel Pesach or Aḥaron shel Pesach (" last days of Passover ") are also a holiday commemorating K ' riat Yam Suf ( the Passage of the Red Sea ): 21 ( and outside Israel 22 ) Nisan

* New grain ( chadash ): in Leviticus 23: 14 the Bible prohibits newly grown grain ( planted after Passover the previous year ) until the second day of Passover ; there is debate as to whether this law applies to grain grown outside the Land of Israel

* 2002 – Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

* 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

To ensure that Passover did not start before spring, the tradition in ancient Israel held that the first day of Nisan would not start until the barley was ripe, being the test for the onset of spring.

It is traditional for Jewish families to gather on the first night of Passover ( first two nights in communities outside the land of Israel ) for a special dinner called a seder ( סדר — derived from the Hebrew word for " order ", referring to the very specific order of the ritual ).

In Israel, Passover lasts for seven days with the first and last days being major Jewish holidays.

Outside the Land of Israel in the Jewish diaspora, Shvi ' i shel Pesach is celebrated on both the seventh and eighth days of Passover.

Jews generally observe one or two seders: in Israel, one seder is observed on the first night of Passover ; in the Diaspora communities other than Reform and Reconstructionist Jews hold a seder also on the second night.

* 15-21 Nisan – Passover – also 22 Nisan outside of Israel

Thus, just as Passover is described in the Torah as a seven-day holiday but is observed for eight outside of Israel, so Sukkot is described in the Torah as a seven-day holiday but is observed for eight outside of Israel.

In most countries outside Israel ( including the US ) the major agencies which certify food as kosher, or kosher for Passover, do not have a special category for food which is " only kitniyot " and not chametz.

* Since Passover is always celebrated on 15 – 21 ( or 22 outside Israel ) Nisan, near the beginning of spring, " Holiday of Aviv " ( Pesach or Passover Is always on the 14th of Nisan.

Azerbaijan is one of the few countries with predominantly Muslim populations that shares a strategic alliance with Israel.

Today, Israel is a major arms supplier to the country.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

* 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

Through Amos, God tells the people that he is going to judge Israel for its sins, and it will be a foreign nation that will enact his judgment.

For the people of Israel " the day of the LORD " is the day when God will fight against their and his enemies, and it will be a day of victory for Israel.

However, Amos and other prophets include Israel as an enemy of God, as Israel is guilty of injustice toward the innocent, poor, and young women.

As it is with all nations that rise up against the kingdom of God, even Israel and Judah will not be exempt from the judgment of God because of their idolatry and unjust ways.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

Tu Bishvat is not an official holiday in Israel.

Only in Israel decompression is used on all luggage to check for pressure sensor detonators.

Thiele noticed that for the first seven kings of Israel ( ignoring Zimri's inconsequential seven-day reign ), the synchronisms to Judean kings fell progressively behind by one year for each king.

In Ancient Israel the first day of Unleavened Bread, a special Holy Sabbath, was on Nisan 15 and began a seven-day feast to the Lord ().

The event is celebrated annually in Israel with a national holiday Yom Ha ' atzmaut (, lit.

Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.

The non-Reform branches of Judaism celebrate it as a two-day holiday, both inside and outside the boundaries of Israel.

It is always observed as a one-day holiday, both inside and outside the boundaries of the Land of Israel.

Outside of Israel, meals are still taken in the Sukkah on the eighth day, Shemini Atzeret, a holiday in its own right.

This ceremony so dominates the holiday that in Israel, where the holiday is one day long, the whole holiday is referred to as Simchat Torah.

Outside Israel, in Orthodox and Conservative communities, the holiday lasts for eight days with the first two days and last two days being major holidays.

This holiday commemorates the day the Children of Israel reached the Red Sea and witnessed both the miraculous " Splitting of the Sea ," the drowning of all the Egyptian chariots, horses and soldiers that pursued them, and the Passage of the Red Sea.

My dream is to go to Israel for a real holiday.

sufganiyot סופגניות ) in Israel, have become a traditional Hanukkah food in the recent era, as they are cooked in oil, associated with the holiday account of the miracle of the oil.

* Israel is one country that uses the Gregorian calendar but does not formally celebrate the New Year's holiday — mainly due to objections by religious parties on the holiday's non-Jewish origins.

Three long time Middle-East residents, Americans convicted by the Iranians of spying for Israel, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal and Sarah Shourd, who were on holiday in Iraqi Kurdistan and were detained by Iran, have been held in Evin Prison since around the beginning of August 2009.

During this holiday the hotel consisted many elderly Jews who didn't have family and relatives in Israel.

In Orthodox and Conservative communities outside Israel, Shemini Atzeret is a two-day holiday and the Simchat Torah festivities are observed on the second day.

Many communities in Israel have Hakafot Shniyot ( Second Hakafot ) on the evening following the holiday, which is the same day as Simchat Torah evening in the diaspora, as an expression of solidarity with Jewish communities in the diaspora.