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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

Purim parades

Onlookers watch the Purim parade in Jerusalem, March 25, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2024, 4:04 pm
After protests, Jerusalem’s controversial ‘United Purim’ parade draws depressed turnout
Thousands line route to watch floats and entertainment troupes, but attendance far lower than expected; hostage families lead parade after agreement reached with municipality
By Gavriel Fiske
Artists prepare installations for Jerusalem's 'Adloyada' Purim parade, March 21, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 21, 2024, 4:08 pm
Jerusalem mayor meets hostages’ families, agrees on changes to Purim parade
Critics said it was inappropriate to hold celebrations while people remain captive in Gaza and country is at war; Tel Aviv and Holon blowouts nixed
By Jessica Steinberg
Street performers during Purim in downtown Jerusalem on March 8, 2023. (Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90)
March 18, 2024, 3:00 pm
Jerusalem plans first Purim parade in 42 years, despite war
City’s arts and culture department taps local artists, evacuees, and residents for celebrations even as holiday is ‘draped in sadness’ amid ongoing fighting in Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Purim, with its focus on joy, costumes, and alcohol consumption, meshes particularly well with some St. Patrick’s Day traditions, including drinking beer and wearing as much green as possible. (Illustration by Mollie Suss via JTA)
March 17, 2022, 9:44 am
Joint Purim and St. Patrick’s Day gives Irish Jews more reasons to raise a glass
Known to Jewish community as ‘The ‘Double P,’ day will be celebrated by local synagogues in Dublin and by expats living in Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A young girl dressed for the Jewish holiday of Purim poses for a picture at her home in Efrat, in Gush Etzion on February 25, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90) *
March 10, 2020, 1:27 am
Virus outbreak disrupts joyous Purim fest but some improvise
Holiday marked with cancelled carnivals, children dressed as doctors in hazmat suites, personalized megillah readings outside the homes of those in quarantine and online services
By David Crary
Four new oversized bobbleheads were added to Holon's Adloyada Purim parade, including singer Stephane (far left), Eden Ben Zaken, Omer Adam and Netta Barzilai (Courtesy Adloyada)
March 19, 2019, 1:24 am
A feast of full-size bobbleheads at Holon Purim parade
The city’s 27th Adloyada event features caricatures of singing celebrities, fiery dragons and more than 4,000 entertainers along the parade route
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis celebrate the Purim holiday at Kikar Hamedina in Tel Aviv on March 2, 2018. (Guy Yechiely/Tel Aviv Municipality)
March 3, 2018, 12:24 am
Dozens injured at annual Tel Aviv Purim bash
53 require treatment for over-imbibing and dehydration, with 10 taken to the hospital; city hall puts turnout at street party at 60,000
By ToI Staff
Above and main image: The Graf Zeppelin flies over the Tower of David in Jerusalem in April 1931 (courtesy of the American Colony Photo-Dept. Collection: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, LOC, Washington, DC)
March 1, 2018, 5:47 am
When zeppelin fever came to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 89 years ago
On Purim 1929, a famed German airship dropped confetti on 80,000 coastal revelers as, on board, two prominent Zionists read the Book of Esther above the holy city
By Marissa Newman
Participants at a traditional Carnival parade in Maastricht, the Netherlands, March 2, 2014. (Marcel Van Hoorn/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
February 14, 2018, 8:32 pm
For Jews in the Netherlands, Catholic Carnival feels like ‘hardcore Purim’
Despite the festival’s dark anti-Semitic roots, some Jewish revelers join the fray — this time as participants and not victims
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Partying at Tel Aviv's annual Purim street party (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv)
March 10, 2017, 10:34 pm
21 injured at annual Tel Aviv Purim bash
Seven party-goers hospitalized during Kikar Hamedina street party; police arrest 7 for selling alcohol to minors, bicycle theft
By ToI Staff
Getting ready for Holon's 2015 Adloyada parade with a float depicting Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi (L) and Brazilian player Neymar (R) at a set design factory near Kfar Saba (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
March 3, 2015, 2:28 pm
Grog, grogger, groggest: Celebrating Purim in style
When a one-day holiday becomes a five-day vacation, there’s ample time to have fun
By Jessica Steinberg
Israelis wearing costumes pose for a photo during a Purim street party in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Tsafrir Aboav/Flash90)
March 1, 2015, 11:33 pm
Sunshine expected for Purim revelries
Rising temperatures expected later in the week despite precipitation in the north
By ToI Staff
Israelis wearing costumes pose for a photo during a Purim street party in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Tsafrir Aboav/Flash90)
February 24, 2013, 5:25 am
Police beef up presence at Purim celebrations
Amid festivities, holiday sees first casualties — 15-year-old sent to operating room after firecracker explosion injures his eye
By Ron Friedman
Get me to crypt on time (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)
March 8, 2012, 8:32 am
Zombie hordes prowl streets of Tel Aviv
Procession of the undead brings city to life for Purim
By Stuart Winer
Purim parades and parties will be held across the country (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash 90)
From the WebMarch 7, 2012, 11:16 am
Purim potpourri of parties, parades and processions
Tourist Israel: What on, what’s hot, and what’s happening in Israel for the Purim festival
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