Anyone who left work early yesterday and went out to have some fun with the family encountered an unexpected problem: darkness in the middle of the afternoon. Winter has been ushered in at the very nicest time of year, when the weather has become more bearable, when the sea is smooth − in short, when summer is still here.

Last Saturday night clocks were turned back one hour, meaning that while Europe and North America end summer (daylight saving) time on the last Sunday of October, so they enjoy an extra month and a half of late afternoon sun, here darkness falls at 6 P.M.

Now when we wake up in the morning, the sun is already high in the sky, which is simply a waste of sunlight. We pay the price for this in the evenings, when it gets dark too early. All this because the secular majority in the Knesset preferred to kowtow to the religious and ultra-Orthodox, instead of representing the interests of its constituents.
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