Originally Posted by Dovster
I'm not apirchik, but I have been in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur and there are very few cars -- if any-- on the roads. Children do, indeed, enjoy riding their bicycles on the main streets there.
In fact, I live near an Arab village in the Galilee and have been told by friends there that most Israeli Arabs also do not drive on Yom Kippur -- simply as a matter of showing respect for the holiday.
One year, I had no choice in the matter -- I had to take somebody to the hospital in Safed (about 20 kilometers away) and did not see a single car until I was very close to the hospital.
Not only very very few cars. But as pertains to us all here at FT. TLV is CLOSED DOWN no flights in or out for over 24 Hours. Israel closes its AirSpace the only time it does that, Dont know of any other Country that does something like that.
I was over there for 1 YK when around 2pm on Yom Kippur eve a call came in from Brussels that I think it was a kidney was in hand for a patient who was next online who was in Israel (A young girl if I remember correctly). Well no one is to be found anywhere working, Yet everything was done so as to get the Already Closed AirSpace open and contollers to BG so as to enable a Private Jet to fly out with the girl to Brussels where she was able to have the transplant with the Blessings of the Chief Rabbis at that. Since Preservation of Life is #1.
Yes a Shana Tova to 1 and ALL