Events Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

 Agenda

Jewish feasts (according to the lunar calendar).
Rosh Hashana (New Year):
Anniversary of the day the world was created and Judgement Day. Human beings do a self-evaluation. Rosh Hashana is followed by ten days of 'Repentance' (Téchouva, returning to God).
Yom Kippur ('The Day of Atonement'):
Atonement comes after repentance: Yom Kippur ends the Techuva with a 24-hour fast devoted to prayers and absolution.
Sukkot (feast of tabernacles):
During this harvest feast, Jews celebrate the days of the Exodus when the children of Israel, fleeing from Egypt, camped in the desert in precarious tents.
Simhat Torah ('rejoicing of the Torah'):
At the end of the week of Sukkot, the day of Simhat Torah marks the end of the annual reading cycle of the Torah.
Hanukkah (Feast of Lights):
Celebration of the 'spiritual light', symbol of the triumph of sanctity over brute force.
Purim (feast of lots):
Huge carnival celebrating the victory of Esther and Mardochee over the Persian King.
Pesah, Jewish Easter:
This seven-day festival is in memory of the exodus from Egypt. Leavened bread is forbidden and is replaced with Matzo, unleavened bread, in memory of the manna God rained down on his people in the desert.
Shavuot (festival of Pentecost):
Seven weeks after Pesah, this festival celebrates the time of the giving of the law to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Commemorations:Yom Ha Shoah (beginning May):
Celebration of the Shoah. Two minutes of silence in memory of the six million Jews exterminated by the Nazis.
Yom Ha Atzmaout (Mid-May):
Celebrating the birth of the State of Israel (on 14 May 1948).
Muslim feasts (they follow the lunar calendar of the Hegira)
April:
Ras es-Sana
Hegiran New Year.
July:
Mawlid al-nabi.
Celebration of the birth of Muhammad.
November:
Lailatul Miraj.
Recall of the ascension of the Prophet to Heaven.
Ramadan.
A month of fasting between sunrise and sunset.
Aït el-Fitr.
Feast of the end of the Ramadan.
Aït el-Kebir.
Every muslim family slaughters a sheep in memory of Abraham's sacrifice.
Christian feasts:
Christmas.
Catholics celebrate Christmas on 25th December, the Orthodox on 7th January and Armenians on 19th January.
March-April:
Holy week, which ends with Easter Sunday, scheduled depending on the Jewish Easter. Thus, for Catholics, the feast takes place three weeks before Pesah. For the Orthodox and Armenians, it takes place two weeks before.
Holy Friday, a procession in the stations of the cross of Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem.
Ascension.
Forty days after Easter, Franciscans pray on the Mountain of Olives in Jerusalem.
Pentecost.
Fifty days after Easter, Catholics celebrate mass in the Dormition Church in Jerusalem.