Millions of Jews in Israel and abroad will celebrate Rosh Hashanah tonight and the next two days, one of the most significant holidays in the Jewish calendar. Synagogues will once again be filled with moving prayers, during which the sound of the shofar will be heard.
Alongside the standard quorums, many court quorums will operate this year.
The Ministry of Health calls on the masses to prefer prayers outside buildings when there are any.
Authorities were preparing for court quorums, with some even providing financial support.
Thus, in Beit Shemesh, purchase vouchers were distributed in favor of equipment adapted for prayers in the open air, and in Bnei Brak, chillers and fans were placed in open spaces.
Blowing the Shofar, Archive, David Cohen Ginny
The Chabad youth organization also held large-scale open-air prayers. In the past month, Chabad houses have held shofar training courses for a thousand volunteers.
Rabbi Yosef Aharonov, head of the Chabad mission in Israel, said that "everything is being done to enable people this year to observe the important mitzvah, and to receive from it a hope and blessing for a good, sweet, healthy and blessed year." Of the Or Torah Stone chain and the Tzohar rabbinical organization, "Shofar in the Park", in hundreds of centers in the country, to allow Israelis who do not visit the synagogues to connect to the holiday values in an experiential Israeli-Jewish spirit.
Meanwhile, in some parts of the world, Jews are faced with very strict guidelines.
In Australia, where there is now a tough closure, volunteers from the Jewish community Sydney's School have set out to provide hundreds of kits with holiday signs and customs to individuals and families who cannot leave their homes.
"They try to give a taste of routine," said Rabbi Chaim Levy.
The team of doctors in the corona ward at Soroka Hospital, Dudu Greenspan
"A month of family meals"
New Year's Eve, and all over Israel are preparing for the holiday meal, which this year will finally take place in the arms of the family.
Yaron, from Moshav Herut, told "Israel Today" that "I am very excited to hold a Rosh Hashanah prayer quorum this year, with all the customs and melodies of Beit Avi, who was a public messenger and passed away about two weeks ago. We are all very happy to celebrate the holiday with the whole family tribe "Big and hot after we didn't get it within the confines of the closures."
Ohad Gigi from Yokneam said that "after such a complex and distant year, there is nothing like a whole month of family meals, lots together and for dessert some freedom from work, which is not related to isolation. Just fun and happy!".
Moran from Tel Aviv added: "After a year of not being with the family, I am finally happy to be back to feel the unity, to eat the food I love so much, to celebrate with Grandma."
Meanwhile, in preparation for the Tishrei holidays, the Traffic Division of the Israel Police was held with increased forces.
The preparations will include the deployment of police forces, vehicles and motorcycles on the intercity roads, in order to allow as free and safe a ride as possible.
Against the background of the expected congestion, the police asked the drivers to "be patient and drive carefully according to the road conditions."
9.391 million Israelis
Meanwhile, on the occasion of the Hebrew New Year, the Central Bureau of Statistics has published its data on the population in Israel.
The population of Israel increased in 2020 by about 146,000 people, and on the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5752 it is estimated at about 9,391 million people.
Soldiers sitting on a tank, Eyal Margolin - Ginny
A man holding a fish, Joshua Joseph
