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(CBS/AP) JERUSALEM – Israel ground almost to a halt Tuesday afternoon in preparation for Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year. The country has completely closed its airspace to airplanes, shut down its buses and trains, and locked its border crossings in preparation the holy day, which begins Tuesday evening and ends Wednesday after sundown. Restaurants, businesses and schools closed, government ministries shuttered, and Israeli television and radio stations went silent. Highways and roads emptied of cars – a convention honored even by most secular and non-Jewish Israelis. Yom Kippur is Judaism’s day of atonement, when devout Jews ask God to forgive them for their transgressions. They refrain from eating and drinking and attend intense prayer services in synagogues. The day caps a traditional 10-day period of soul-searching that began with the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish new year. On Jewish new year, Israelis fear Iran strike This year, 영암출장업소 the day of introspection comes amid heightened speculation that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could be near. When Yom Kippur comes to a close Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make his way to New York to address the United Nations with one main message: Iran’s nuclear program is an existential threat to Israel, and it must be stopped. Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar told Israel Radio that Israelis should pray this...

(AP) HARARE, Zimbabwe – Bulawayo city officials Monday urged all residents to join the “big flush” to help Zimbabwe’s second city clear toilet waste that accumulated in sewers during days of water outages. Bulawayo city spokesperson Nesisa Mpofu asked all residents to flush their toilets simultaneously at 7:30 p.m. twice a week, on Mondays and 이천출장샵 Thursdays. She said a new timetable was issued Monday. She said residents can also flush at other times. Many residents had mistakenly thought they could only flush on Monday and Thursday evenings. Mpofu said synchronized flushing will help move waste in the “old and overburdened” sanitation system, worsened by a growing urban population, water shortages and a troubled economy. Civic activist groups on Monday however criticized the proposed solution by city authorities as “ridiculous.” Magondonga Mahlangu, a leader of WOZA, an activist organization that champions women’s issues and protests against the nation’s poor service, told The Associated Press that the council’s proposed “big flush” is an insult to people’s dignity. Mahlangu said city authorities needed to look at fixing the aging water and sewer pipes which have not been replaced in years. Zimbabwe had world record inflation before the formation in 2009 of a coalition government between longtime President Robert Mugabe and the former opposition leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. “It just goes to show that someone in the council has lost touch...

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