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The Time Determination Ordinance was inherited by Israel as part of the default adoption of Mandatory Law. Two days after the Declaration of Independence, the provisional government introduced double Summer Time in Jerusalem to save fuel, extending this to the whole of Israel from May 23. [5]
Palestine observed DST for 62 years between 1940 and 2024. The previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1983. [3] The Palestinian Government announces the dates for the start and end of summer time. [4] In 2020, they announced the end of summer time on 19 October, only 5 days before the change. [5]
At the beginning of the British Mandate, the time zone of the mandate area (present-day Israel and Jordan), was set to Cairo's time zone, which is two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. The unique "Israel Standard Time" came into effect with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, which gave Israel the authority in determining its own ...
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
Eastern European Time / Israel Standard Time / Eastern European Summer Time / Israel Summer Time UTC+03:00: Arabia Standard Time / Turkey Time UTC+03:30: Iran Standard Time UTC+04:00: Gulf Standard Time
Adopted standard time of UTC+2 in 1903. Observed annual changes to summer time in 1942–1943 (UTC+3 summer, UTC+2 standard). Observed annual changes to winter time in 1994–2017 (UTC+2 standard, UTC+1 winter) in all regions except Zambezi, which remained in UTC+2 all year. [10] Netherlands: Observed DST in 1916–1945 and since 1977. New ...
On 6 November 2012, the Israeli Parliament changed the daylight saving time law so that Israel’s daylight saving time will run an average of 193 days a year, compared to 182 under the former law. This means that Yom Kippur will now be included in the period of daylight saving time.
Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in West Asia. It is situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East ; and shares borders with Lebanon and Syria to the north, the West Bank and Jordan to the east, the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the southwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. [ 21 ]