Israeli summer begins overnight Thursday-Friday, with clocks ready to jump forward an hour, from 2.am to 3am, marking the start of the daylight saving time.
Daylight saving period will end on October 31, 2021.
In 2013, the Knesset passed legislation extending the period from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.
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Before that legislation was passed, the normal time of Saturday night before Yom Kippur would begin, so that the speed of the day, which is crushed until the fall of the night, would end an hour “earlier. ”
Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on March 23, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton / Flash90)
Last year, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri tried to delay a switch to daylight savings until May 1 in an effort to stop pedestrian traffic on the streets in the evening and promote social speed, such as part of the effort to prevent the spread of the corona virus.
However, a day after it went ahead the measure acknowledged that it would not be possible to make the move because it was too late to synchronize the change with programming on computers and cell phones.
