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A week or so before Christmas, I happened to be walking down Ibn Gabirol, one of Tel Aviv’s main streets, when for no good reason I looked up and there it was, a brightly-decorated Christmas tree in the window of a third-floor apartment. Nor was this an isolated phenomenon.

Tsvi Sadan
Mar 1, 2019 at 5:34 pm
2 Min Read
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Photo: Aviel Schneider

As Christmas approached, Israeli shops offered holiday treats like cakes, chocolate Santas and yuletide decorations. There were also Christmas events in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Galilee as well as at various nightclubs across the country. There was even a “Christmas quiz” in Hebrew for Israelis. Such public displays of Christmas “spirit” were unthinkable a decade ago.

To understand just how radical this new leniency toward Christmas is, one must be reminded that Israel’s Chief Rabbinate prohibits hotels and kosher...

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