Yom Kippur
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| Significance | Atonement |
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| Observances | Fasting, prayer, abstaining from physical pleasures, refraining from work |
| Observed by | Jews |
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| ID | 944138 |
About Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jewish people traditionally observe this holy day with an approximate 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies aged 100
... As secretary of state during the Nixon administration - and later under President Gerald Ford - Mr Kissinger led diplomatic efforts towards China, helped negotiate an end to the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its neighbours and was instrumental in the Paris Peace Accords that ended the Vietnam War...
Israel's pain still raw a month after Hamas attacks
... The significance of the timing was not lost - as this onslaught came almost exactly 50 years after a surprise attack by Egypt and Syria on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, sparked a major regional war...
World Bank warns oil prices could reach $150 a barrel
... In October 1973, Arab oil producing nations cut exports to the US and other countries that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur war...
World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says
... But the IEA warned that it meant further uncertainty compounding an already unsettled global economy - Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia - The report drew parallels with the 1973 oil crisis when Arab oil producers imposed an embargo in response to Western support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war against Arab states led by Egypt and Syria...
Pause for thought - Israel's calculations before going into Gaza
... Yet what happened on that horrific Saturday morning in southern Israel amounted to the worst intelligence failure in the nation s history since the Yom Kippur war in 1973...
Israeli forces fight to drive out Hamas militants and free hostages
... The deadliest day of violence in Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago began just after dawn on Saturday, which was the Jewish Sabbath and festival of Simchat Torah...
Hamas attack shocks Israel, but what comes next?
...By Yolande KnellBBC News, JerusalemFifty years on from the Yom Kippur War, which began with a surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria, Palestinian militants have launched a major assault...
How did Israeli intelligence fail to stop major attack from Gaza?
... Not surprisingly the Israeli media has been asking urgent questions of their country s military and political leaders as to how all this could have occurred, on the 50th anniversary of another surprise attack by Israel s enemies at the time: the Yom Kippur war of October 1973...
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