Photo essay: Israeli celebrations of Succot from the 1940s through today
A peek into how Israelis observed the holiday from our archives.
By JPOST.COM STAFFObserving Sukkot in Israel(photo credit: ANDRE BRUTMANN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)
Observing Sukkot in Israel (photo credit: ANDRE BRUTMANN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)The Aberyel family builds their sukkah in the village then known as Abu Kabir, near Tel Aviv, in October 1949. (photo credit: FRITZ COHEN/GPO)A man places the ‘s'chach’ on top of his succa in 1976 in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood. (photo credit: ALIZA AUERBACH/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)American and Ethiopian immigrants stand outside a succa in the Jerusalem Forest, erected by KKL-JNF, in 1992. (photo credit: JOE MALCOLM/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)A family shakes the four species in their Succa in 1979. (photo credit: WERNER BRAUN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)Members of the Alboim family, who won the Jerusalem beautiful succa contest, sit in their succa in 1974. (photo credit: ISRAEL SUN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)A succa in Tel Aviv is built out of stolen election billboards, featuring opposing candidates for the 1978 Tel Aviv mayoral race. (photo credit: MICHAEL FREIDIN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)A family sits in their succa in Jerusalem in 1958. (photo credit: WERNER BRAUN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)People celebrate Succot at a hotel near the Red Sea in Taba, Egypt, in 1991. (photo credit: WERNER BRAUN/JERUSALEM POST ARCHIVES)A man and a woman bring branches of a Eucalyptus tree to build a succa in 1950 at Kibbutz Ein Shemer. (photo credit: FRITZ COHEN/GPO)
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