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September 24, 2021
During the Yom Kippur War, Soldiers Put Their Sukkahs on Wheels
A moveable festival.
As the 1973 Yom Kippur War began on the sacred day from which it takes its name, and lasted for nineteen days, it also coincided with the weeklong holiday of Sukkot. Although the IDF’s chief rabbi ruled that the exigencies of war exempted soldiers from the commandment of eating in the vegetation-roofed booths that Jews traditionally dwell in during the festival, some did so anyway. Nati Gabbay describes how they built sukkot on top of their armored personnel carriers and half-tracks. The National Library of Israel has released photographs of these sukkot from its Pritzker Family National Photography Collection—like the one below, taken by Nathan Fendrich:
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During the Yom Kippur War, Soldiers Put Their Sukkahs on Wheels
A moveable festival.