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Underground Party Scene: Israelis Celebrate Purim in Air Raid Shelters
Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv's underground shelters for Purim amid Iranian missile threats, with celebrations adapting to wartime conditions and air-raid sirens, officials said.
- On Monday, Tel Aviv residents streamed into a mall's underground parking lot that doubles as a bomb shelter to observe Purim as air-raid sirens sounded, moving festivities below ground.
- After an Israeli-U.S. strike on Saturday, Iran launched strikes, forcing Israelis into shelters multiple times daily amid wartime conditions this year.
- A rabbi led the Megillah reading while worshippers booed Haman and costumed attendees like Peter Pan and Pikachu joined; families improvised tents, a bathtub play area, and air mattresses as a live band played.
- Despite a military ban on public gatherings, hundreds of attendees packed four floors underground to mark Purim, while families planned routes to keep quick access to shelters.
- Speaking from shelters, Mariel Margulis said residents are choosing joy and calm, drawing parallels to the Purim story while taking it one day at a time.
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Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the biblical story of how a plot to exterminate Jews in Persia was thwarted, and thus is embraced as an affirmation of Jewish survival throughout history. For many Jews, it will have added significance this year amid the United States and Israel’s ongoing…
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