Bill Tiede <billt@isbister.com> writes: | | Regarding the DST rules for Israel, I have not been able to find any | corroborating evidence that this became official policy. The only story | in the online newspapers (Jerusalem Post for example) on the subject was | in early July 2000 which mentioned that the committee had made a | recommendation, but that the head of the Intertior Department disagreed | with the recommendation. You are referring to the meeting of the Interior Ministry committee on July 5 where then Minister of Interior Sharansky leaned towards his original end date of October 22nd. Between July 5 and July 19 when the change to Oct. 6 was passed in the Knesset, Minister Sharansky resigned (not because of DST ...) and joined the opposition hence making his opinion a lot less important. As far as official confirmation, I included the URL to the law itself with all the 2000-2004 spelled out explicitly in the comments to the 'asia' file: # The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates # for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz Steve Mann <smann@cdpubs.com> writes:

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Last week it was decided that the DST in Israel will be finished this year at Oct 6. For the next 4 years the dates will be beginning of April until last week of Sept. (in special cases it can move to first week of Oct.)

I'm not quite sure what he meant by the "beginning of April". If anyone wants to pursue details, I can provide email contact information privately.

I chose to include the URL of the actual law rather than the usual official announcement to the press since the official announcement only gave the end date for Oct. 6 and just mentioned that the other years had been changed (with a typo of 2003 in instead of 2004) without stating what the dates were. I am attaching the announcement to the press of July 19 for all Hebrew readers in the list. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6585439 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim@cse.huji.ac.il