Tagged Yom Kippur

USAF

US Air Force held ‘Commandants Training Day’ on Yom Kippur: ‘Mistake that won’t happen again’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu released from hospital after complaining of chest pains

Benjamin Netanyahu receives the prayer shawl fallen IDF soldier Zachary Baumel on Jerusalem Day. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90 )

Netanyahu ‘unwell’ during Yom Kippur services, undergoing tests at hospital

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WATCH: Thousands attend Yom Kippur service in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square

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WATCH: Crowd flips over Arab vehicle that entered Israeli city on Yom Kippur

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Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur amid high security alert

Western Wall

WATCH: Thousands chant ‘selichot’ prayers at Western Wall on Yom Kippur eve

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Jewish DC group slammed for planning ‘Yom Kippur lunch meetup’

Sukkot

WATCH: Israelis celebrate Jewish holidays of Yom Kippur and Sukkot

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Herzog thanks former US President Carter for ‘holy’ peace agreement with Egypt

(Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)

Yom Kippur attack on German synagogue thwarted, 4 detained

Naftali Bennett

Bennett: ‘We will not allow Hamas to accumulate more rockets’

Jewish men pray at the Western Wall

WATCH: Yom Kippur War taught ‘how much our nation is dependent on God’

Police Jerusalem

Israel beefs up security in Jerusalem ahead of Yom Kippur, braces for possible escalation

Thousands of Ethiopian Jews take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday in Jerusalem on November 27, 2019, celebrating their community's connection and commitment to Israel.

WATCH: All Jews encouraged to adopt Ethiopian-Israeli holiday of Sigd

Montreal Police

Police raid Montreal synagogues during Yom Kippur prayers

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Day of Judgment: Israel hits record high in number of serious cases

Wild Boars

WATCH: Wild boars run wild in Haifa on Yom Kippur

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Israelis mark Yom Kippur under ‘painful’ virus lockdown

Men prayring selichot forgiveness prayers at the Kotel

Health Ministry fears Yom Kippur prayers will cause virus spike

Benjamin Netanyahu

‘We are at war,’ Netanyahu says as two-week hermetic shutdown set to begin

Students in small groups at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva in Modiin Illit. (Flash90/Yossi Zeliger)

1000 yeshiva students infected with corona, some allegedly on purpose

A man in a white overall is escorted by police officers as he arrives at the federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. A German prosecutor says the suspect in Wednesday’s attack in the German city of Halle wanted to carry out a 'massacre' in a synagogue.

German suspect planned Yom Kippur ‘massacre’ at synagogue, had explosives in car

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2 killed in Anti-Semitic Yom Kippur shooting at German synagogue

IDF

Yom Kippur starts at sundown: May you be sealed in the Book of Life

Shofar

Opinion: Zionism is national movement of repentance without precedent in history

Western Wall

Tens of thousands flock to Western Wall as Judaism’s holiest day approaches

India on high alert over terror threat targeting Israeli, Jewish sites on Yom Kippur

Jonah and the Whale

WATCH: Why do we read the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur?

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook’s Zuckerberg asks forgiveness on Yom Kippur

Israeli tennis player David Sela

Israeli tennis star quits world tour match to avoid playing on Yom Kippur

Neo-Nazi march in Sweden

WATCH: Neo-Nazis march in Sweden on Yom Kippur, armed with helmets and shields

Nordic Resistance Movement

Swedish court reroutes Nazi march away from synagogue on Yom Kippur

Nordic Resistance Movement

Violent neo-Nazi march in Sweden planned for Yom Kippur

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Yom Kippur Facts & Thoughts You Need to Know

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Yom Kippur and the Lesson of the Two Goats

Repentance

The 10 Days of Repentance

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Why is Purim So Different from All Other Holidays?