Israel is often referred to as the melting pot of the Jewish people, and this nation of immigrants — where Jewish daily life is infused with the ancestral memories of Russia, Poland, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Iraq, Syria, Libya, France and dozens of other countries — is as diverse in dress codes as it is in food, customs and language.
Most Israelis wear Western clothing on a daily basis, but when it comes to life’s most special moments, ritual dress reigns. The most prominent example of this is Israeli weddings, No’am Bar’am-Ben Yossef, senior curator of ethnography at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, told Al-Monitor.