In Israel, Yom Kippur (which begins this evening) is an extraordinary experience. All shops and businesses are shut. Traffic disappears and even the traffic lights are de-activated. People walk in the roads and on the motorways. The airport shuts down. There is a palpable sense of an entire country acting as one to withdraw from the world …
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