Home News & Views Israel Photo Essay: Passover Preparations in Israel News & ViewsIsraelMediaPhoto of the DayColumnsYishai Fleisher Photo Essay: Passover Preparations in Israel By Yishai Fleisher - 12 Nisan 5772 – April 3, 2012 0 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter tweet Photo Credit: archive Ultra-Orthodox Jewish harvesting wheat with hand sickles in a field of Moshav Komemiut near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat. The wheat will be stored for almost a year before being used to grind flour in order to make the Matzah Shemurah (unleavened bread) for the week-long Passover festival next year. Photo by Flash90 Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dressed up with traditional holiday clothes making matzah by hand, a traditional unleavened bread eaten during the Jewish holiday of Passover, just few hours before the "Seder" starts. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday. The week-long festival commemorates the exodus of the ancient Hebrews from Egypt. Photo by Flash90 Israeli soldiers prepare food packages at a distribution center for needy in Lud on April 03, 2012, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover. Photo by Flash90 Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) (R),and Head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky stand with newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia as they attend a rehersal of a Passover holiday dinner (known as a "seder"), organized by the Jewish Agency and IFCJ at an immigrant's centre in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem April 02, 2012. Photo by Flash90 Western Wall workers remove thousands of handwritten notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in the Old City of Jerusalem. The operation is carried out twice each year: before the Passover festival and at the Jewish New Year in the fall. Photo by Flash90 Arab dry cleaners prepare Jewish prayer shawls for the holiday in Jerusalem. Photo by Yishai Fleisher Rabbi Avi Elbaz dunks a new Pesach Seder plate in the ritual bath, preparing for use on the holiday. French Hill, Jerusalem. Photo by Yishai Fleisher Yishai Fleisher shows off a Matzah after manning the oven of a Matzah bakery in Beit El, Israel. Advertisement RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR News Briefs Israel Has a Population of Almost 5 Million Women with an 85-Year Life Expectancy America's Top Rebbetzins Rebbetzin Raizel Rosenfeld–Accepting Ourselves Exactly as We Are Government Israel Moving to Adopt ‘European’ Import Standards to Lower Prices Headlines US Netanyahu Desperately Seeking White House Approval for Rafah Invasion Israel At War: Iron Swords IDF Arrests 200 Terrorists, Eliminates 40 Terrorists, Confiscates Terror Funds at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital Latest News Stories US Netanyahu Desperately Seeking White House Approval for Rafah Invasion Israel At War: Iron Swords IDF Arrests 200 Terrorists, Eliminates 40 Terrorists, Confiscates Terror Funds at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital Israel At War: Iron Swords Pro-Hamas Goons Target Effy’s Cafe on NYC’s Upper West Side Israel At War: Iron Swords Bibi and Biden Speak, First Time in a Month Sovereignty Smotrich to Take Control Over ‘Illegal’ Construction Away from Central Command Iran Alternate Reality: Iran Becomes President of UN Conference on Disarmament News Briefs News Briefs Israel Can Refuse UNRWA Access to Gaza, Says Ex-Agency Legal Adviser News Briefs IDF Destroys 2.5 Km Tunnel in Northern Gaza Recommended Today Sovereignty Smotrich to Take Control Over ‘Illegal’ Construction Away from Central Command The Land of Israel Finishing The Job: Purim’s Secret Hidden in Jerusalem & Gaza On Campus / Education House Republicans Introduce Bill to Inoculate Against ‘Plague of Illiberalism on College Campuses’ Archaeology Hiding Complex that May Have Been Used in the Bar Kochba Revolt Unearthed near the Kinneret Sponsored Posts Fasting and Feasting on Zayin Adar Sponsored Posts Sponsored Post Luxury Living in Israel Like Never Before Sponsored Posts Rob Ernst