JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: Tight security as Israelis make final preparations for Jewish New Year

Record ID: 860859

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: Tight security as Israelis make final preparations for Jewish New Year
  • Date: 9th September 2010
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (SEPTEMBER 8, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ISRAELI POLICEMEN DEPLOYED OUTSIDE MARKET PLACE PEOPLE COMING IN TO THE MARKET PLACE MORE OF POLICEMEN DEPLOYED IN MARKET VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SHOPPING FOR FOOD IN MARKET PLACE AHEAD OF THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, WHICH ISRAELIS POLICEMEN AT MARKET PEOPLE SHOPPING POLICE VEHICLE BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (SEPTEMBER 8, 2010) (REUTERS) CHECKPOINT BETWEEN WEST BANK CITY OF BETHLEHEM AND JERUSALEM SIGNS ON GATE OF CHECKPOINT VEHICLES WAITING IN LINE AT CHECKPOINT GOING TO JERUSALEM GATE IN BARRIER FOR PEDESTRIANS SIGNS READING IN ARABIC, HEBREW AND ENGLISH "MEN ONLY, ENTRANCE, EXIT" EMPTY RAILWAY
  • Embargoed: 24th September 2010 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
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  • Story Text: Israelis took to the streets to make last minute preparations ahead of the Jewish New Year being celebrated at sunset, amid tightened security across the country and a full closure the army had imposed on the West Bank.
    Israelis made their last minute preparations ahead of the Jewish New Year, which Jews will begin celebrating at sundown on Wednesday (September 9), amid tightened security and closure on Palestinian territories.
    Rosh Hashanah, the two-day Jewish new year, will conclude at nightfall on Friday, 10 September. Both days are marked by special prayers and scriptural readings.
    Jews around the world celebrate the holiday by a special customs of eating of apples and honey, symbolising the hope that the coming year will be "sweet".
    In Jerusalem, men and women rushed to the market place for last-minute shopping ahead of the holiday, while police forces deployed in around the crowded shopping area to secure it. Israeli security also deployed in the old city of Jerusalem and in main cities across the country.
    The Israeli army had also imposed a full closure on Palestinian territories in the West Bank, an Israeli army spokesperson's announcement said.
    Humanitarian cases as well as various Palestinian professional groups such as doctors, farmers, medical personnel and NGO workers were granted special permissions to enter Israel, the announcement added.
    But most residents of the West Bank towns of Ramallah and Bethlehem are not allowed into the Jewish state until the Jewish holidayon September 10.
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