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Israel Standard Time

Israel Standard Time (IST) (Hebrew: ???????? ?????????? Sha'on Yisra'el, lit. 'Clock of Israel') is the standard time zone in Israel. It is two hours ahead of UTC (UTC+02:00). Overview History At the beginning of the British Mandate, the time zone of the mandate area (present-day Israel and Jordan), was set to Cairo's time zone, which is two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. The unique "Israel Standard Time" came into effect with the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, which gave Israel the authority in determining its own time, specifically to enact daylight saving time. In 1992, the Knesset replaced the British Mandate era Time Ordinance with the Law Determining...

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