Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv

Today is Yom Kippur, the holiest of Jewish Holidays. The entire city of Tel Aviv is completely shut down, nothing is open, nobody drives. The streets are filled with kids on bikes or rollerblades, families walking around, and absolutely no car traffic. It is the weirdest sensation. The photo below I took about 2 hours ago at the major intersection of Ibn Gvirol and Ben Gurion. Ibn Gvirol is the main through-way of Northern Tel Aviv. A multi-lane street that splits north Tel Aviv into two (you can see it on the little map link I have to the right). The best analogy to it is Van Ness in San Francisco, that also splits North SF directly in half. You can see the kids on the bikes. The little sign says "Drive Slow"This photo I took a little later on a street called Dizengoff, which is a another major commercial street. I saw a lot of great photo ops, but I'm not that skilled of a photographer, so these will have to do. I'm hoping maybe to become as skilled as Rion (who is in Paris and has a stunning photo-blog of her experience. I highly recommend it, check it out here).

Also, I have added Prosnit's blog to the list on the right, as well as Joy and Jason's blog.