As with most Jewish fast days, the fast begins at dawn.

Each Jewish day was reckoned to begin at sunset.

It was the supreme Jewish "holy day," the time of national atonement for sin.

The statement has been years in germination, and it was released two weeks ago because of the approaching Jewish holy days.

In 1953 the combined entity merged with the Jewish Day.

The Jewish day is of no fixed length.

The occupied territories have been closed before, on high Jewish holy days and at other times when Israel wanted to prevent possible trouble.

There are around seven Jewish festive days which cannot be observed because they are working days.

"It's almost Shabbat," she said, referring to the Jewish day of rest.

If not a first, it certainly is a rarity: a cartoon series devoting an episode to a Jewish holy day.