Clocks in Israel turn back an hour as daylight saving time ends

Winter is coming.

Israel turned clocks back one hour overnight Saturday-Sunday, marking the end of daylight saving time for the year.

At 2 a.m. overnight Saturday-Sunday, Israel’s clocks winded back to 1 a.m. again, giving people an extra hour of sleep.

Daylight saving time will return on March 24, 2023.

The time change coincided with that of the EU, but not with the US, which will switch back on November 6.

Israel was also on a different time than the Palestinian Authority for 24 hours, with the PA having switched between Friday and Saturday night.

In 2013, the Knesset passed legislation extending daylight saving time from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.

Before that, standard time would begin the Saturday night before Yom Kippur, so that the day’s fast, which is pegged to nightfall, would end — but also begin — an hour “earlier.”

Because the Hebrew calendar is lunar, Yom Kippur can fall between mid-September and mid-October, which used to mean that Israelis returned to standard time as much as a month and a half before most other countries.

As a result, the issue of the seasonal time transition became contentious and was caught up in political tensions between religious and secular parties before the 2013 change was implemented.