The Jerusalem District of the Israel Police continues its preparations as part of operational readiness for the holiday period, including the weekdays of Sukkot and in particular in preparation for the Birkat HaKohanim (blessing of the priests) events expected to take place on Thursday (Octo
Israel on Sunday called on the United Nations to step up its efforts to collect and distribute undelivered humanitarian aid sitting on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The crossing will be closed on Monday and Tuesday due to the start of the week-long Sukkot holiday,
Ahead of the Sukkot holiday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted a delegation of prominent Chabad rabbis and received from them the "Four Species" - the plants on which a blessing is made every day over the Sukkot holiday which begins Wednesday night.
The tomb is the burial place of the Biblical patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, along with their wives and is Israel’s second-most visited holy site.