CROSSWORD 984

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1 Temporary booth constructed for The Feast of Tabernacles (Hebrew) (6)

5 Might be the alcohol content? (8)

9 Sit astride and go off, following street on right (8)

10 Kol ****** - the eve of Yom Kippur (Hebrew) (6)

11 Paradisicc haunt of endangered bats (Gen. 2:10) (6,2,4)

13 **** Barak, PM of Israel from 1999 to 2001 (4)

14 Iberian Jew praised for working outside hospital (Hebrew) (8)

17 Hymn welcoming shabbat (Hebrew - variant spelling) (4,4)

18 Competent, we hear - before he was murdered? (Gen. 4:2) (4)

20 Jewish ex-Goon taking safe to the shops? (1925-1980) (5,7)

23 Esther’s predecessor as queen starts virtuous acts she has to implement (Es. 1:11) (6)

24 Speeches marking passing that is in European Union records (8)

25 Steven ******** - JewishAmerican theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (b.1933) (8) 26 Israel’s peak on the borders with Lebanon and Syria (6)

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2 An obsolete four-letter word used in blunt oratory (4)

3 ‘Only one kid’ - Passover song (Hebrew) (4,5)

4 Jezreel Valley town past its own time? (6)

5 Jewish-American director of the Holocaust movie ‘Schindler’s List’ (6,9) 6 This Churchill sat in catamaran dolphin-watching (8)

7 A nuisance person, a bore (Yiddish) (5)

8 Headed east to order: ‘No fishing here’! (3,4,3) 12 Tasty dish, or picture of one? (10) 15 Runs a gala, perhaps, this Jewish Lord (4,5)

16 With hindsight, she became a seasoned columnist (Gen. 19:26) (4,4) 19 Left in moorland for well-being (6) 21 Zerah’s second son (1 Chron. 2:6) (5)

22 Where Moses died featured in one book (Deut. 34:1) (4)