SCIENCE: R&D at Universities
As at universities all over the world, advancement in scientific knowledge is the chief objective of researchers at Israel's universities.
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Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashanah commemorates the culmination of the creation of the universe and acceptance of God’s sovereignty over the world.
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Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest and most important holiday in Judaism.
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Sukkot
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.
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Chanukah
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.
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Purim
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.
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Passover
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.
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Lag Ba'Omer
Lag Ba'Omer is a Jewish holiday that falls between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot.
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Jerusalem Day
Jerusalem Day is a national holiday marking the liberation of the city in 1967 and its reunification after the Six Day War.
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Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day
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.
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Yom Hazikaron
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.
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Independence Day
Independence Day is the day in which David Ben-Gurion, the state’s first prime minister, declared the country’s independence in 1948.
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