Rosh Hashanah commemorates the culmination of the creation of the universe and acceptance of God’s sovereignty over the world.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest and most important holiday in Judaism.

Sukkot, is the third holiday in the Hebrew month of Tishrei, and is one of the most important Jewish holidays. Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage holidays.

The holiday lasts eight days, commemorating the celebrations marking the purification and rededication of the Holy Temple, and the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days, instead of one.

This holiday is in the Book of Esther and recalls the story of how Persian Jewry was saved from Haman, who had been plotting to kill all the kingdom’s Jews.

Pesach, which starts on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (usually in April), lasts for seven days and is celebrated to commemorate the exodus from Egypt.

Lag Ba'Omer is a Jewish holiday that falls between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot.

Jerusalem Day is a national holiday marking the liberation of the city in 1967 and its reunification after the Six Day War.

The day is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis and to the heroism of the Jewish resistance in the Holocaust.

The day is dedicated to commemorating the country’s soldiers and members of security forces, the memory of the fallen from the pre-state undergrounds, and to victims of terrorism.

Independence Day is the day in which David Ben-Gurion, the state’s first prime minister, declared the country’s independence in 1948.

A fundamentally agricultural holiday and commemorates the custom of bringing offerings to the Holy Temple from the first fruits of the harvest and the first animals born to the flocks.

A day of mourning marking the destruction of the First Temple and the destruction of the Second Temple, destroyed in 70 CE by Titus, emperor of Rome.