IN PICTURES: THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS CELEBRATE ROSH HASHANA IN NATURE - JPOST.COM

IN PICTURES: THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS CELEBRATE ROSH HASHANA IN NATURE

BYJPOST.COM STAFF

 

 SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

All across Israel, families celebrated the first day of the Jewish New Year by enjoying quality time in nature.

A Jewish worshipper blows a Shofar, at the Western Wall ahead of Rosh Hashana. (photo credit:AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS)

Some 35,000 Israelis flocked to national parks and natural reserves across the country on Thursday morning to enjoy the warm weather with their families on the first of a four-day countrywide hiatus in celebration of the Jewish New Year.

Families with small children traveled across Israel, going to hikes and visiting waterfalls up north.

Some 200 motorcyclists rode to Belvoir Fortress south of the Sea of Galilee to catch the first sunrise of the new year, and according to the Nature and Parks Authority, thousands more are expected to travel to the countries' beaches and other sites in the coming days.

Israelis enjoy the warm weather at Gan Hashlosha National Park.

Basking in the sun at Eilat's Coral Beach.


Israelis dip into the waterfalls at Gan Hashlosha National Park.

TRUMP PAYS RESPECTS AT ISRAEL'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL YAD VASHEM BYJPOST.COM - MAY 23, 2017 13:07 Live updates from the US president's historic visit.

US President Donald S. Trump and flame at Yad Vashem 

Jewish Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Israel

May 23, 2017

TRUMP PAYS RESPECTS 

AT ISRAEL'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL YAD VASHEM  

BYJPOST.COM -  MAY 23, 2017 13:07   

Live updates from the US president's historic visit.

WATCH HERE 

(after you look at these screen shot photos! Steve Martin)

US President Donald Trump set out Tuesday on the second day of his historic visit to the region after arriving in Israel Monday. 

As part of his whirlwind first trip to the Holy Land as president, Trump went here in Jerusalem for a brief visit at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial. The American leader was set to give a speech later in the day at the Israel Museum before departing the country for Rome in the late afternoon. JP

Wreath from our USA President Donald J. Trump 
laid on the memorial containing ashes
from victims of the Holocaust during World War II.

The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),^[2] also referred to as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"),^{[citation needed]} was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.  Wikepedia