In shelters and safe rooms, Israelis across country read Book of Esther amid sirens. With synagogues closed due to the war with Iran, communities held Purim megillah readings in bomb shelters and protected spaces nationwide; French Jewish youths stranded without proper shelter joined a boarding school in northern Israel in what organizers called ‘a living … In shelters and safe rooms Israelis across country read Book of Esther amid sirens
