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 Video of the Day You’ve Reached the Pesach Command Center Jewish Western Wall Prayer Notes Cleared Out Ahead of Passover Israel At War: Iron Swords ‘Unprecedented’: Members of Congress Slam Biden Ultimatum to Israel Headlines Israel At War: Iron Swords US Navy Vessel Aborts Mission to Build Gaza Pier, Others Still Expected Boycott / BDS Google Fires 28 Tech Workers over Cloud Computing Contract with Israel Latest News Stories Iran Israel’s Defense Systems Will Be Stretched by Iranian Drone and Missile Attacks Israel At War: Iron Swords US Navy Vessel Aborts Mission to Build Gaza Pier, Others Still Expected Boycott / BDS Google Fires 28 Tech Workers over Cloud Computing Contract with Israel US Navy Secretary: It Cost a Fortune to Intercept Iranian Ballistic Missiles Aimed at Israel Iran ABC: Israel Pushed Retaliation Against Iran until After Pesach NY Flames Consume Chabad Synagogue in Pomona, NY; Sifrei Torah Destroyed News Briefs News Briefs As Druze Mark Holiday, Figures Show Tenfold Growth Since Israel’s Founding News Briefs ‘Take Matters Into Your Own Hands’ When ‘Pro-Hamas Mobs’ Block Traffic, Tom Cotton Says Recommended Today Iran Israel’s Defense Systems Will Be Stretched by Iranian Drone and Missile Attacks US Navy Secretary: It Cost a Fortune to Intercept Iranian Ballistic Missiles Aimed at Israel India India Police Arrest 2 Jewish Women for Tearing Down Pro-Hamas Poster Anti-Israel NGOs Ben Gvir Establishes Police Unit to Remove Leftist Provocateurs from Judea and Samaria Sponsored Posts Fasting and Feasting on Zayin Adar Sponsored Posts Sponsored Post Luxury Living in Israel Like Never Before Sponsored Posts Rob Ernst