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Why Israel

Why is the Israeli attitude to this particular day of any special significance? No other country is singled out in this way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.193.210.206 (talk) 16:40, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Differentiate from Rosh Hashanah

ViperSnake151, I can’t access the Haaretz article - does it explicitly say that the use of Silvester is to differentiate the day from Rosh Hashanah? Many early settlers of Israel came from countries where Silvester is the normal name for New Years Eve, e.g. Germany, Hungary and Poland.—Ermenrich (talk) 12:26, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The second article also does so. ViperSnake151 Talk 15:23, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pig walking tradition in Austria?

This article mentions that people walk pigs on leashes through the Austrian capital Vienna "in hope to have good luck for the coming year". The source for this claim is the "Encyclopedia of New Year's holidays worldwide" which seems valid. However I can't find any other source backing up this statement, making me wonder how truthful it actually is. If anyone has more information/sources regarding this alleged tradition, please add a comment otherwise I propose removing this part of the article. Simonilja (talk) 18:15, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]