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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Shabbat

An unfinished construction of a railway bridge on Route 1, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, on June 1, 2024. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash9)
June 6, 2024, 5:50 pm
Builder warns avoiding Shabbat work on train bridge will cause highway hazard
Amid religious pressures, Solel Boneh says doing job on several weekdays instead of one weekend means drivers on main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road must pass under hazardous construction
By Stuart Winer
Heavy traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 30, 2024, 7:58 pm
Massive traffic as central Israel highway closes for 24 hours under Haredi pressure
Major project to install pedestrian bridge over Ayalon Highway carried out overnight Thursday-Friday as ultra-Orthodox prevent work on weekend, which would violate Shabbat
By Stuart Winer
Kosher McDonald's restaurant in Ashkelon, Israel. (Creative Commons via JTA)
May 19, 2024, 5:53 pm
Rehovot residents protest after police repeatedly shut McDonald’s on Shabbat
Locals say newly opened restaurant is being targeted for selective enforcement, but city maintains it’s maintaining status quo given fast food joint’s location
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 11, 2024, 8:47 am
Ultra-Orthodox party pans Netanyahu for issuing credit rating statement on Shabbat
Housing minister Goldknopf of United Torah Judaism calls PM’s response ‘inappropriate’; Finance Committee chair says it was ‘totally unnecessary’ and a colleague laments ‘disgrace’
By ToI Staff
NYC locals enjoy the world's longest challah, baked Jan. 19-20, 2023 with the help of volunteers and local businesses in New York and New Jersey. (Screenshot from Instagram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 23, 2024, 7:34 pm
35-foot challah in NYC attempts to break Guinness record
Over 200 pounds of dough transformed into world’s longest challah for Jewish Federation of North America’s Shabbat of Love
By julia GERGELY
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest against Israel outside a Shabbat event being held during the Somos Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 10, 2023. (Screenshot X, Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 13, 2023, 3:05 am
Protesters against Israel interrupt Shabbat event for NYC officials in Puerto Rico
Head of group that cosponsored Somos Conference notes gathering had nothing to do with Israel-Hamas war; Holocaust memorial in Brooklyn, synagogue in Manhattan threatened
By Ben Sales
Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza set a symbolic Shabbat table with more than 200 empty seats for the hostages, at 'Hostage Square,' outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, October 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 20, 2023, 5:08 pm
200-seat empty Shabbat tables set for hostages held by Hamas
The installation, in Tel Aviv and other communities, joins the global ‘Kidnapped’ posters campaign as a symbol of the plight of those abducted by terrorists to Gaza two weeks ago
By JTA and Jessica Steinberg
Israel Railways' HaShalom Station in Tel Aviv, August 15, 2023 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 13, 2023, 4:03 pm
In extraordinary move, trains to keep running on Shabbat amid war
Select stations throughout the country will be serviced throughout the weekend as public need grows due to military conflict with Hamas
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The main street of Bnei Brak, August 17, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 18, 2023, 6:38 pm
Planning panel okays Tel Aviv metro via Bnei Brak, which denies approving Shabbat work
Committee said to reach deal with Haredi-dominated municipality to allow excavations in city on Jewish day of rest — but city council says this won’t happen outside extreme cases
By ToI Staff
Cookbook author Adeena Sussman in the Carmel Market, ahead of her second recipe collection, 'Shabbat,' launched September 5, 2023 (Courtesy Lisa Rich)
September 7, 2023, 2:46 pm
Cookbook author Adeena Sussman brings her kind of Shabbat to the table
The ‘Sababa’ author launches second solo cookbook, serving up recipes and rituals of the Friday night dinner party
By Jessica Steinberg
Demonstrators block the tracks of the Tel Aviv light rail in protest of it not running during Shabbat, Friday, September 1, 2023 (video screenshot)
September 1, 2023, 5:10 pm
Protesters block Tel Aviv light rail for third week, hold ‘civics class’ on tracks
Trams stopped in Jaffa area as demonstrators once again disrupt the new line because it doesn’t run on Shabbat
By ToI Staff
Passengers ride the Tel Aviv light rail on its first day of service, August 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 26, 2023, 10:01 pm
Tel Aviv light rail extends Saturday evening hours amid protests over Shabbat closure
Tram to begin service an hour earlier, extend past midnight; Friday saw activists once again chain themselves to car to demand it run on Shabbat
By ToI Staff
Activists handcuff themselves to handrails on Friday's last light rail ahead of Shabbat, in Tel Aviv, August 25, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 25, 2023, 6:22 pm
Activists again cuff themselves to Tel Aviv light rail to protest Shabbat stoppage
Several dozen people protest at Allenby Station on day’s last tram, causing service to stop and driver to leave; police on the scene
By ToI Staff
Anti-government protesters chain themselves to a train car during the opening of the light rail in Tel Aviv, August 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 22, 2023, 1:09 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 22: Tel Aviv light rail sparks liberal awakening
Political correspondent Tal Schneider discusses government’s struggle to respond to ongoing terror wave, along with bittersweet launch of Petah Tivka-to-Bat Yam train system
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of a bus running in Tel Aviv on the Sabbath. (Tel Aviv Municipality)
August 21, 2023, 2:52 am
Ramat Gan to launch Shabbat shuttle service along Tel Aviv light route
Mayor’s announcement will likely please residents of his largely secular suburb; comes two months ahead of municipal elections, when he’ll aim to win a second term
By ToI Staff
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