Editing Yom Kippur (section)

=== Observance in Israel ===
[[File:Yom Kippur on Highway 20 Tel-Aviv.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Ayalon Highway]] in [[Tel Aviv]], empty of cars on Yom Kippur 2004]]
Yom Kippur is a legal holiday in Israel. There are no radio or television broadcasts, airports are shut down, there is no public transportation, and all shops and businesses are closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/6829.htm |title=Sounds of The City |publisher=[[Israel Insider]] |date=October 14, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217055647/http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/6829.htm |archive-date=February 17, 2007 }}</ref>

In 2013, 73% of the Jewish people of [[Israel]] said that they were intending to fast on Yom Kippur.<ref name="ynetnews.com">{{cite news|last=Nachshoni|first=Kobi|date=September 13, 2013|title=Poll: 73% of Israelis fast on Yom Kippur|publisher=[[Yedioth Ahronoth]]|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4428978,00.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807154521/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4428978,00.html|archive-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref> It is very common in Israel to wish [[Jewish greetings#Holidays|"''Tsom Kal''"]] ([an] easy fast) or "{{Lang|he-latn|Tsom Mo'il}}" ([a] benefiting fast) to everyone before Yom Kippur, even if one does not know whether they will fast or not.

It is considered impolite to eat in public on Yom Kippur or to play music or to drive a motor vehicle. There is no legal prohibition on any of these, but in practice such actions are almost universally avoided in Israel during Yom Kippur,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-shutting-down-for-yom-kippur-holy-day/|title=Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur|website=[[The Times of Israel]]|access-date=29 June 2018|archive-date=29 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629074959/https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-shutting-down-for-yom-kippur-holy-day/|url-status=live}}</ref> except for emergency services.

Over the last few decades, bicycle-riding and inline skating on the empty streets have become common among [[Jewish culture|secular Israeli]] youths, especially on the eve of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pri.org/stories/2009-09-28/yom-kippur-kids-and-bikes-tel-aviv |title=Public Radio International, "The World", 'Yom Kippur: Kids and Bikes in Tel Aviv' |date=14 August 2013 |publisher=Theworld.org |access-date=7 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123434/http://www.pri.org/stories/2009-09-28/yom-kippur-kids-and-bikes-tel-aviv |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1973, an air raid siren was sounded on the afternoon of Yom Kippur and radio broadcasts were resumed to alert the public to the surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria that launched the [[Yom Kippur War]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=C. I. E. |date=2023-10-06 |title=Yom Kippur War Begins |url=https://israeled.org/yom-kippur-war-begins/ |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=CIE |language=en}}</ref>