Purim revelers party, observe holiday nationwide

Festivals ranging from Tel Aviv's zombie march to Holon's Adlayada color streets as Israeli celebrate Purim.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Purim costumes 390 (photo credit: Courtesy Marom Communications)
Purim costumes 390
(photo credit: Courtesy Marom Communications)
Purim is a holiday that Israelis of all ages and levels of religious observance can and do enjoy. The holiday celebrations extend from before the holiday itself, well into the weekend where parties will continue to rage for those waiting for the pending workweek to end.

Children across the country arrived to school on Wednesday - the night when the holiday began - and Thursday donning technicolor costumes both of tradition holiday characters like Queen Esther and the evil Persian Haman , and more modern characters that would not seem out of place in a Halloween parade in the United States. As part of the holiday, some observers hand out Misholoah Manot, Purim baskets that are meant to signify goodwill and a holiday that leaves no one underfed.A number of festival parades and marches took place across the country, with revelers dressing up as zombies in Tel Aviv, and festival-goers in Holon joining the 20th annual Adlayada, this year centered around the Tastes of Childhood theme. In Tel Aviv, an alternative Adlayada was organized by some members of last summer's social protest movement, adopting politicized costumes that, while they conveyed a message, still kept to the holiday's more jovial essence.