Sukkot is a Jewish holiday whose practice includes building temporary shelters - Sukkahs. It's done among other reasons, to remember the past as a wandering people, moving from place to place, often fleeing persecution. This has become the present of thousands of Palestinians.
This boy, a Sephardic Jew, can clearly be seen selling etrogs (citron) and hadassim – 2 of the 4 Species that Jews use on the holiday of Sukkot. But technically they weren't wrong when they labelled the boy "Palestinian." He certainly was a Palestinian – a Palestinian Jew...
Only in Israel: An Arab-Israeli bus driver decorated his bus for all the Jewish passengers in Jerusalem, especially for Sukkot. Wonderful. Chag Sameach! #Sukkot
From our Sukkah in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel and the Jewish People, we wish all a Shabbat Shalom and a happy and festive Sukkot holiday.
The Jewish holiday of #Sukkot begins this evening These photos, taken in 1941 in the Lodz ghetto, attest to the fact that even under the oppressive conditions of the ghetto, Jews observed the holiday as an act of faith & resistance Learn more: http://ow.ly/Sppk50G2UKS
Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות), meaning Tabernacles, is the autumnal 'foot festival' in which Jews are commanded to leave their permanent houses and to dwell in booths for seven days.