As sun set on Sunday, Jews across Israel marked the last night of the Hanukkah f...
Members of the Ben Shahar family light a hanukkiyah, a candlestick with nine branches that is lit to mark Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish Festival of Lights, in Moshav Kfar Mordechai, Israel December 25, 2019. Picture taken December 25, 2019. REUTERS/Nir Elias
Hanukkah, Hebrew for “dedication”, commemorates the 2nd century BC victory of Judah Maccabee and his followers in a revolt in Judea against armies of the Seleucid Empire and the ensuing restoration of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. During the holiday, it is customary for friends and families to get together in the evening and light the hanukiah, a nine-arm candelabra traditionally set by the window, and to eat jam-filled doughnuts or deep-fried potato pancakes.
Hanukkah often holds special significance for Israelis who see the Maccabee victory as symbolic of Jewish triumph in dark times. Avraham Harshalom, 95, is a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust whose parents and brother were murdered in Auschwitz.
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