Israel's Arab community is unwell, 'We must [stand up] before it's too late,' says Sheikh Nasser Drausha as the death toll rises to 192 this year

The intention to issue the order now in effect was announced by the Central Command chief earlier this month, citing 'a risk to the West Bank region's security'

In Haifa's Halisa neighborhood, 'many families have left' out of fear for their lives, one social activist tells Haaretz, as murders in Israel's Arab community spike

Rosh Yehudi organization requested an interim order to hold Sukkot events after their permit was revoked by the Tel Aviv municipality due to gender-segregating the Yom Kippur prayers

During the time of the First Temple, Sukkot was considered the most important holiday – with the Torah referring to it simply as 'the holiday' and historian Josephus describing it as the 'most holy and important feast'

Arguably the most obscure of Jewish customs, during Sukkot, Jews shake a closed date frond, some myrtle boughs, a few willow twigs and a citron fruit as part of the daily prayer service – but why and where did this begin?

Scholars have come up with various alternatives to the religious theory for the origin of the huts, from families moving into the fields during harvest season and living in the huts to them once serving as housing for pilgrims coming to Jerusalem for the harvest festival