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Israel - A special Knesset committee established for examining daylight saving time has submitted their recommendation to extend summer hours to Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas), Israeli media reported Sunday. Yishai organized the committee after a bill was submitted earlier this year over the contentious issue.
Supporters of reforming the summer clock say that the time switch should happen in mid-October, and not on the weekend before Yom Kippur as it has been since 2005.
Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz had submitted a bill with support from 20 other MKs from across the spectrum calling for a reformed summer clock.
According to Horowitz, the bill seeks not only to lengthen afternoon hours into the early autumn, but also save electricity and prevent car accidents.
Opponents of changing the current system say that the bill helps religious observers in the autumnal holidays.
Yishai has said that he has not yet reached any final conclusions based on the report submitted to him recently, and will take the week to complete his inspections and will publish the decision thereafter.
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May 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM Upset Says:Report as Inappropriate
If changing the clock before Yom Kippur will help some people observe this holiday then the observance of Yom Kippur will help Israel more than changing the clock in mid-October in order to help save energy.
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May 30, 2011 at 11:43 AM charliehall Says:Report as Inappropriate
Israel should follow what the EU, its most important trading partner, does. Halachic time is halachic time regardless of whether standard or daylight savings time is. And the Yom Kippur fast is 25 hours no matter what.
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May 30, 2011 at 01:21 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
No proof; there has been arguments of summer time versus winter time, for a long time. What has recently come out is that people need light in the morning to help set
their body clock. If one more Jew keeps Yom Kippur by resetting the clocks early than it is well worth it. Remember there are children involved also. If the children get up early and stay the extra hour it is hard on the people who are fasting. I hard a ridiculous argument in England to keep double summer time and summer time during the winter. This would cause sun rise to be at 9:07 the first day of winter in London.
In Glasgow Scotland it will be 9:47. The promoters of double summer time say to open businesses and schools later; so what is the point??
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May 30, 2011 at 02:56 PM chachom Says:Report as Inappropriate
Maybe I'm stupid but Kol Nidre is 2 hours and the Daytime davening is 8-12 hours.
Sof Zman Krias shma is 3 hours after sunrise. Those who daven 10 + hours get to shul 10+ hours before the end of the day. The others should be there 50 minutes before zman Krias shma. Then you daven the rest of the day. For women who are home with small children, the children will wake up when it is light outsinde whether that is 5:30 or 6:30. IMHO, this is Chareidei politics at its best, showing that they can flex there muscles,
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May 30, 2011 at 03:07 PM Chaim_Ben-Yehuda Says:Report as Inappropriate
As a resident of EY I have to say that CharlieHall's proposal makes perfect sense, from so many aspects.
Anonymous #3's point about double summer time in Britain is good, too. Proposals for "DST" are not popular with yiddn there, because shabbat would go out in, say, Aberdeen (in the very north-east of Scotland) at around 11:00 p.m. in high summer. It would also play havoc with davening shacharit and ma'ariv, too.
But returning to the Middle East for a moment, seeking 'seichel' from government offices on the issue of daylight savings is akin to banging one's head against a brick wall!
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May 30, 2011 at 05:36 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Again we debate the obvious. There are reasons the rest of the world uses daylight savings time and maybe the talmeidi chachamim in the Knesset will figure out that the fast on yom kippur will be the same 25 hours long no matter when we start. If you want a shorter fast, tell the chazan to do cut out most of the chazanus during shachris and neeliah and we can sleep later in the morning and take a long nap after musaf.
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May 31, 2011 at 05:26 AM Normal Says:Report as Inappropriate
Every year we have this discussion about Yom Kippur. As was mentioned last year, if the minyan starts Shachris one hour later then everything is identical to a not-daylight-saving Yom Kippur, as long as you don't look at the clock. Your morning alarm will go off at the correct not-daylight-saving wake-me-up time-for-Shachris and shalom al yisroel.
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May 31, 2011 at 01:03 PM Reb Yid Says:Report as Inappropriate
The only thing is, you're used to waking up the same time every day, because your work schedule doesn't change with the sun unless you're a farmer. So when Yom Kippur comes you're going to wake up at 7AM like every other day, regardless of whether the fast ends at 6 or 7 PM. Therefore, it will feel longer if it ends at the later hour.
Now, whether the whole daylight savings schedule needs to revolve around one hour of fasting, I don't know, seems nicht geferlach to me, but whatever.