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IN PICTURES / The empty streets of Israel on Yom Kippur
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press
Tags: Jewish World, Israel news 

The start of the Jewish Day of Atonement at sundown Sunday marked the beginning of a day like no other in Israel, on which even Israelis with no connection to religion tend to put their normal lives on hold.

When Yom Kippur began at around 5 p.m. local time on Sunday, TV and radio stations blinked off the air, flights in and out of Israel's airports ceased, and nearly all businesses and institutions closed. The streets emptied of cars and cities and highways were eerily quiet.




Children riding bicycles on the empty streets of Jerusalem (Image: Tess Scheflan / Jini)


A main street in Jerusalem is seen completely empty (Image: Tess Scheflan / Jini)


Young girls using chalk to draw on the asphalt in the middle of a Tel Aviv street (Image: Motti Kimche)


People walking down an empty street in Jerusalem (Image: Reuters)


A little boy riding his bicycle in a Tel Aviv street (Image: Motti Kimche)


The tunnel under Tel Aviv's famous Dizengoff square, usually bustling with traffic, is seen full of pedestrians and bicyclists (Image: Motti Kimche)


A small child riding a toy bicycle in a Tel Aviv street (Image: Motti Kimche)

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  1.   I wish.... 00:18  |  Moshino 01/01/09
  2.   Forgiven Day 00:42  |  Peacefull Observer 01/01/09
  3.   Nice images Haaretz 00:53  |  Mark B. 01/01/09
  4.   What`s this--people are not buying things, . . . 00:02  |  Zev Davis 01/01/09
  5.   I know a lot of people who are pent up in their homes..... 00:27  |  JO 01/01/09
  6.   is it illegal to drive on Yom KIppour? 00:10  |  American in NY 01/01/09
  7.   One should make Yom Kippur a worldwide holiday 00:30  |  Lucy Somera 01/01/09
  8.   You don`t have to be primitive to love Shabbat 00:43  |  Paul 01/01/09
  9.   Forgiven Day 00:58  |  conenorm 01/01/09
  10.   To the American in NY 00:44  |  Dov 01/01/09
  11.   Haaretz Adjectives 00:53  |  Eldar 01/01/09
  12.   Peaceful observer 00:15  |  Chaphari 01/01/09
  13.   Forgiven Day 00:16  |  Peacefull Observer 01/01/09
  14.   and also don`t drive from fear 00:08  |  doda 01/01/09
  15.   no need for kippur to have a car-free day 00:10  |  linda 01/01/09
  16.   It is illegal to drive 00:12  |  David 01/01/09
  17.   when will there be quiet on kippur 00:15  |  deda 01/01/09
  18.   i wish it was like that every day not just shabat 00:11  |  sam 01/01/09
  19.   not sure! 00:10  |  Joel Klein 01/01/09
  20.   Soon every Shabat will be like this. 00:38  |  Aron 01/01/09
  21.   Yom Kippur demonstrates... 00:06  |  Avi 01/01/09
  22.   yes it is liiegal to drive on yom kipur 00:40  |  lu 01/01/09
  23.   9. Dov, Respect for holidays 00:34  |  Ben 01/01/09
  24.   19# Aron 00:30  |  Danalogue 01/01/09
  25.   It is legal to drive on Yom Kipur 00:47  |  Sammy 01/01/09
  26.   From a Moshavnik 00:50  |  Moshavnik 01/01/09
  27.   Hope all you Israelis had a happy Yom Kippur 00:28  |  M. S. 01/01/09
  28.   Too bad Israeli respect for the holidays doesn`t equate 00:00  |  Dutch 01/01/09
  29.   SAVIOR-CHRIST JESUS FORGIVES ANYTIME& SHALOM!! 00:59  |  S. H 01/01/09
  30.   above 00:46  |  moishe 01/01/09
  31.   PEACE (Response to #7) 00:08  |  Joseph 01/01/09
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