The Kabbalat Shabbat ceremonies for evacuees continues. A reception was held at the Kfar Maccabiah hotel, for evacuees from Moshav Yachini and Sderot who have been staying at the hotel already for several weeks. The Kabbalat Shabbat ceremony was hosted by Gusti Yehoshua-Breverman with musical accompaniment by Amir Schreiber.
This is the third Shabbat that many places worldwide are observing ‘Shabbat of Unity.’ In Toronto, an Israeli Shabbat service was held for the first time at the "Holy Blossom" Reform Synagogue. Close to a hundred Israelis from all over the city and all ages gathered together to mark thirty days since the Black Shabbat with singing, prayers and a joint Friday dinner. Roman Lisovoi, whose parents were murdered on October 7th when they went fishing at Zikim Beach, joined the Shabbat celebration and shared the story of his late parents and recited Kaddish with the crowd. It was an incredibly significant and communal event. In Budapest, there were two Shabbat events in the Jewish communities that hosted Israelis for a Shabbat gathering. One event was with the Reform community of Budapest and one with the Neological Jewish community.
