(9 Dec 2012) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
Jerusalem
1. Various of traditional holiday doughnuts being sold at Hanukkah event at Mamilla Mall
2. Close up different types of doughnuts
3. Tilt up of woman showing off her doughnut choices, UPSOUND (Hebrew): "This is halva, this is tiramisu, this is... I don't remember, it was the black one, and this is cr�me br�l�e."
4. Tilt down of child and doughnuts
5. Wide of event
6. SOUNDBITE (English) No name given, Hanukkah event participant:
"The idea of Hanukkah is the idea of light and spreading the light and as you can see here we are lighting a menorah. And this is a universal idea which obviously we need in the world today, and the idea of spreading light is something each one of us can do in our own lives and in our own surroundings."
9. Close up lighting of Hanukkah candles and zoom out to menorah
10. Close up Hanukkah candles being lit
11. Various of crowd and Menorah, a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day holiday
Ariel Sharon Park, Israel
12. Wide of fireworks
13. Wide of children dancing
13. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving at Hanukkah event
14. Netanyahu lighting Hanukkah candles
STORYLINE
Jews around the world ushered in the eight-day Hanukkah festival on Saturday evening, lighting the first candles of ceremonial lamps that symbolise triumph over oppression.
Sunday marked the first full day, and the second night of the holiday.
In Jerusalem, a large crowd gathered after sundown at Mamilla Mall, near the Old City, to eat a variety of traditional doughnuts and attend the lighting of candles of the nine-candle lamp or menorah.
Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights, commemorates the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to impose its culture on Jews and adorn the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem with statues of Greek gods.
The holiday lasts eight days because according to tradition, when the Jews rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem, a single vial of oil, enough for one day, burned miraculously for eight.
For many Jewish people, the holiday symbolises the triumph of good over evil.
Observant Jews light a candle each night to mark the holiday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also lit a candle Sunday night at the Ariel Sharon Park near Tel Aviv.
Oily foods are eaten to commemorate the oil miracle, hence the ubiquitous fried doughnuts and potato pancakes, known as latkes.
In Israel, children play with four-sided spinning tops, or dreidels, decorated with the letters that form the acronym "A great miracle happened here."
Outside of Israel, the saying is "A great miracle happened there."
Israeli students get time off from school for the holiday, when families gather each night to light the candles, eat and exchange gifts.
Hanukkah - which means dedication - is one of the most popular holidays in Israel, and has a high rate of observance.
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