Yom Kippur means Day of Atonement. It is the most sacred and solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through ...

To mark Yom Kippur, Jews spend a lot of time at the synagogue and undertake a 25-hour fast. They wear white as a symbol of purity and do not bathe, wear leather shoes or have sex.

On Yom Kippur and in the hours afterward ... of our own people fighting one another on a day that has always been a symbol of unity,” Herzog said at a memorial ceremony for the war.