Summer clock will be back tonight at 0200: We will lose one hour of sleep and gain day light

Tonight at 2:00 (between Thursday, March 28, and Friday) the hands of the clock in Israel will be moved one hour forward, and the time will be 3:00. The summer period will last until October 27, 2024, just two days after the end of the Tishrei holidays.

Due to the switch to summertime, we will lose an hour of sleep tonight, and the sun will rise at a later time - but we will gain an additional hour of daylight.
The transition to summertime was made according to the "Time Determination Law" from 2013, which currently states that summertime will continue every year from the Friday before the last Sunday in March at 2:00, until the last Sunday in October at 2:00.
Most countries in the world have canceled the summer and winter time change, including most Asian, African and South American countries. There are also factors in the US that are pushing to stop changing the clock in the winter. In addition, the European Parliament voted in 2019 in favor of canceling the seasonal switch to summertime - so that each country can decide whether to stay in its normal time zone all year or to switch permanently to summertime.
Since December 2022, a bill by MK Boaz Toporvski (Yesh Atid) has been on the Knesset table, and has not been promoted, which seeks to abolish winter time, so that in Israel summer time will be used throughout the year. The explanatory notes to the proposal state that "in a survey prepared by the European Union In 2018 it was found that the vast majority, approximately 84%, support the cancellation of moving the clock." Toporovsky's proposal has no political feasibility.
Should changing the clock be canceled in Israel? According to the Davidson Institute for Science Education, "In Israel, due to its geographical location, the sun rises at the height of summer about two hours earlier than at the height of winter, so if we did not move the clock, the sun would rise in June at around 4:30 a.m. A person who wakes up every day at 6: 00 in the morning, for example, would therefore lose an hour and a half of light. Moving the clock in the summer means that the sun rises around 5:30. But if we adopted this summer time in the winter as well, the sun would rise in early January at about 7:30 - and so on They would wake up when it was still dark outside."
The summer time period in Israel has already been changed several times. The last change was an extension of the period, which came into effect in 2013. Since then, several attempts have been made to change the length of daylight saving time: in March 2020, the Minister of the Interior at the time, Aryeh Deri, tried to postpone the transition to daylight saving time until May 1, in an attempt to reduce citizens' stay in public spaces during the first wave of the Corona epidemic. The attempt was unsuccessful.
In 2021, the Minister of the Interior at the time, Ayelet Shaked, proposed bringing forward the transition to summer time to the beginning of March, in order to save costs for the economy and allow families additional leisure time with their children before dark. This attempt also failed.
In the wake of the war that broke out on October 7, an initiative to extend daylight saving time came up, which even received the support of the Minister of Economy, Nir Barkat, but it too was ultimately shelved due to the opposition of the Shas faction. On the other hand, in the Palestinian Authority, the transition to daylight saving time this year was postponed until the 20 In April, due to Ramadan.
The historical origin of summertime is during the First World War. "The shortage of coal, which was felt very much during the First World War, led Germany to adopt the idea of daylight saving time for the first time, similar to the first proposal of Benjamin Franklin in 1784, who served as the United States ambassador to France, and suggested that the French get up one hour earlier in the summer to save on candles." Says Dr. Nadia Goldovsky, head of time and frequency measurements, who is responsible for national time at the Ministry of Economy and Industry. "This idea was introduced in Germany's territory and in the territories it conquered in Europe in April 1916. Britain adopted the idea in May 1916."