Jewish family building a Sukkah on Sukkoth Feast of Tabernacles Jewish holiday in the home garden.

NAME: JER SUKKOT 20070926I TAPE: EF07/1145 IN_TIME: 11:13:37:01 DURATION: 00:02:40:19 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: 25/26 Sep 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 300 Crossing, Jerusalem - 26 September, 2007 1. Barrier closing at crossing 2. Sign (English, Arabic and Hebrew writing "Stop. Wait for policeman to call you") 3. Wide of Bethlehem (Palestinian city) beyond Barrier wall Israeli side of Jerusalem/West Bank checkpoint - 26 September, 2007 4. Israeli truck arriving at checkpoint 5. Wide of soldiers at checkpoint Jerusalem - 25 September, 2007 6. Ultra-orthodox Jewish father and sons building 'sukkah' (ritual shelter) 7. Father banging nails in sukkah 8. Wide of men building a sukkah outside synagogue 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Moshe Kirshner, sukkot celebrant: "Sukkot, the word sukkah is referring to these (pointing at a sukkah) buildings that we build, special temporary type buildings as a remembrance of when we came out of Egypt. So when God redeemed the Jewish people from slavery he surrounded us with clouds or we built these type of buildings and it commemorates that miraculous time that God protected us in the desert for 40 years." 10. Various of ultra-orthodox Jews building a sukkah 11. Man choosing branches for the roof of the sukkah 12. Ultra-orthodox Jew holding sprigs of myrtle 13. Close up of myrtle (plant) as an ultra-orthodox Jew examines it 14. Branches for sukkah on sale 15. Etrogs (a citrus fruit) on sale in a sukkot market 16. Various of Jewish men as they choose etrogs 17. More of men choosing myrtle branches 18. Various of men building a sukkah 19. Wide of of finished sukkah on an apartment balcony 20. Tilt down from sukkahs to street in a religious neighbourhood 21. Wide of finished sukkahs in a religious neighbourhood 22. Jewish boys kids holding branches for a sukkah roof Jerusalem - 26 September, 2007 23. Exterior of of big 'sukkah' outside city hall 24. Pan right from jar of sweets to decorations inside sukkah 25. Sweets in vending machines 26. Wide of sukkah interior STORYLINE: Israel's Defence Force closed border crossings from Gaza and the West Bank on Wednesday as the Jewish nation prepared for Thursday's Sukkot festival. The military statement did not say when the closure, banning Palestinians from Israel, would be lifted. It said some exceptions would be made, mostly for humanitarian cases. Police were put on high alert in case of attacks during the holiday. Falling shortly after the fasting day of Yom Kippur, Sukkot - known simply as "The Festival" in biblical times and 'Feast of Tabernacles' in English - is one of Israel's three great pilgrimage holidays. It is a time to celebrate the harvest and pray for rain. Jews all over the world prepare 'sukkahs', flimsy, temporary structures where they will eat all their meals and pray for a week, beginning on Wednesday evening, to mark the forty years which Jews spent in the desert wilderness after fleeing slavery in ancient Egypt. Later, it evolved into temporary dwellings in fields and orchards where farmers could rest and eat during harvest time. In Israel the holiday is taken very seriously and a lot of effort goes into building the sukkahs. Simple ones are small booths on the balconies of apartments or in parking spaces. Others are more elaborate structures and richly decorated. Within a sukkah, Jews study, sing, play games, relax, enjoy meals with friends and family and even invite 'ushpizin', symbolic guests such as biblical figures or ancestors to join in. Families which don't build their own sukkah often celebrate at a synagogue, restaurant or hotel that does. In Jerusalem the municipality set up a huge sukkah filled with sweets, the exterior decorated with coloured drawings. Marshmallows and chocolates will be handed out to visitors on Sukkot Eve. Another important part of the festival is a daily blessing recited while holding four plant species - a citrus fruit called an etrog which nowadays is grown largely for this purpose, myrtle sprigs, a palm frond and willow leaves. In Jerusalem all week before Sukkot, there have been special markets selling the four species where religious Jews choose their fruits and branches with extreme care.

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Jewish couple building a Sukkah on Sukkoth Feast of Tabernacles Jewish holiday in the home garden.

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TAPE: EF03/0919 IN_TIME: 23:28:36 DURATION: 1:03 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: 13 Oct 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Pan of immigrant soldiers to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at table 2. Close up Sharon 3. Tilt down from palm roof to woman speaking 4. Soldiers 5. Soldier asking question, pan to official table 6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister: "Concerning the security issue, we will do whatever is right from our part on the issue. Israel will not make any concessions when it comes to that issue." 7. Sharon speaking to soldiers STORYLINE: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that Israel would make no concessions to the Palestinians with regard to preserving the security of Israel's citizens. Speaking at his official residence, Sharon was addressing new immigrant soldiers in a temporary hut used for the week-long Sukkot festival that began on Friday evening. Israeli troops withdrew from the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border on Sunday, after a three-day operation the military said was aimed at finding and destroying weapons smuggling tunnels. The Sukkot autumn harvest festival comes five days after Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Unlike that day of fasting and repenting, Sukkot is a joyous celebration when Jews gather with their families for meals in palm-roofed huts known as sukkahs. Most sukkahs would have been built out of scrap wood during the last few weeks, and will be torn down as soon as the holiday is over.

NAME: MEAST SUKKOT 20081013I TAPE: EF08/1039 IN_TIME: 10:50:15:14 DURATION: 00:02:40:05 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Qalandiya/Jerusalem - 13 Oct 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Qalandiya Checkpoint, West Bank 1. Wide-shot of Qalandiya checkpoint, cars driving 2. Palestinian van at checkpoint, separation barrier at the background 3. Sign indicating way to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv 4. Palestinian man getting out of van at the checkpoint to open back doors 5. Cars and a bus waiting to pass through checkpoint 6. Palestinian ambulance waiting to cross at checkpoint 7. Palestinian cars waiting in line to pass through checkpoint 8. Israeli soldier checking documents of Palestinian man 9. Israeli soldier checking Palestinian ambulance 10. Wide shot of Qalandiya checkpoint Jerusalem 11. Wide shot of Jerusalem market, Israeli border policemen standing at an entrance to the market 12. Pan from Israeli border policemen guarding market to people shopping at the Jerusalem market on eve of Sukkot 13. Close-up of rifle 14. Israeli security forces standing at an entrance to the market as shoppers walk in and out of market 15. Orthodox Jew looking at palm branches 16. Lemons on a stall 17. Man holding palm branch and lemon in his hands 18. Ultra Orthodox Jews examining palm branches at the market 19. Line of stalls and people buying 20. Close-up of woman holding lemon 21. Orthodox Jewish woman asking shop keeper prices 22. Israeli border police woman standing at an entrance to market 23 .Wide of people shopping at market STORYLINE Israel has imposed a closure on the West Bank on Monday for the duration of the week-long Jewish Sukkot holiday. The order bars almost all West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel, though Israel says exceptions will be made for humanitarian cases. At Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank hundreds of Palestinians gathered, trying to make their way into Israel. Israeli police and soldiers prevented their entrance as part of the closure. The closure will remain in effect until next Wednesday. Israel routinely imposes such closures on Jewish holidays as a measure of increased security. Sukkot is a seven-day festival that commemorates the 40 year Jewish desert wandering after the exodus from Egypt during which time Jews lived in temporary huts. Many Israelis build sukkahs, or huts, to live or eat in, to mark the holiday.

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People eating inside a traditional wooden sukkah or succah temporary hut constructed in front of a restaurant for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot or Sukkoth in Jaffa street West Jerusalem Israel

SOUTHERN BORDER, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 21: Religious Jewish families sit inside traditional sukkah temporary huts constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkoth as right-wing and ultranationalist activists, gather in an encampment in a closed military zone, near the border with Gaza to discuss reestablishing Jewish communities in Gaza Strip on October 21, 2024 in Southern Border, Israel. Far-right activists and members of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, are gathering at an event billed as "Preparing to Resettle Gaza," near Israel's border with Gaza, on Monday. Participants in the conference are calling for the rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. (Footage by Eddie Gerald/Getty Images)

Jewish Rabbi blessing on the Four Species in a Synagogue on Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of the Ingathering) Jewish Holiday. Real People. Copy space

Jewish woman blessing on the four species (etrog, lulav ,hadass, aravah) in a sukkah or succah during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot.

Jewish Rabbi blessing on the Four Species in Sukkah on Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of the Ingathering) Jewish Holiday. Real People. Copy space

Young Jewish girl blessing on the four species (etrog,lulav ,hadass,aravah) in a sukkah or succah during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot.

SOUTHERN BORDER, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 21: Israeli military officers chat with an armed right wing activist as they stand amid traditional sukkah temporary huts constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkoth as right-wing and ultranationalist activists, gather in an encampment in a closed military zone, near the border with Gaza to discuss reestablishing Jewish communities in Gaza Strip on October 21, 2024 in Southern Border, Israel. Far-right activists and members of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, are gathering at an event billed as "Preparing to Resettle Gaza," near Israel's border with Gaza, on Monday. Participants in the conference are calling for the rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. (Footage by Eddie Gerald/Getty Images)

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Jewish man blessing on the four species (etrog,lulav ,hadass,aravah) in a sukkah or succah during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot.

Citron fruits (Etrog) are sold for the Festival of the Tabernacle (Sukkoth) in Israel.

Two Jewish sisters (age 07 and 03) playing with small-scale sukkah (temporary hut) celebrating the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) in Israel and around the world. Real people. Copy space

SOUTHERN BORDER, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 21: A religious Jewish woman prays inside a traditional sukkah temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkoth as right-wing and ultranationalist activists, gather in an encampment in a closed military zone, near the border with Gaza to discuss reestablishing Jewish communities in Gaza Strip on October 21, 2024 in Southern Border, Israel. Far-right activists and members of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, are gathering at an event billed as "Preparing to Resettle Gaza," near Israel's border with Gaza, on Monday. Participants in the conference are calling for the rebuilding of Jewish Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. (Footage by Eddie Gerald/Getty Images)

Jewish girl (age 07) plays with small-scale sukkah (temporary hut) celebrating the Jewish festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) in Israel and around the world. Real people. Copy space

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