Israel on Thursday night, the eve of 7 Nissan, will change to daylight savings time, moving clocks one hour ahead at 2:00AM. As a result, the time difference between Jerusalem and New York City will once again be seven hours.

To avoid confusion, that means sunrise will be an hour later as will neitz minyanim on Friday morning. Jerusalem candle lighting time for erev Shabbos HaGadol is according to Chabad.org is at 6:12PM.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)