[ noun ] (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments <noun.time>
On the Jewish holiday of Shavuot on May 30, boats with heavily armed Palestinians from Abul Abbas' Palestine Liberation Front were launched from a mother ship that had set sail from Libya.
U.S. good intentions notwithstanding, Palestinian terrorists launched a large attack via speedboats yesterday against Israeli beach-front hotels on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
The day of the incident, Israel's beaches and hotels were crowded with Israelis celebrating the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Palestinian guerrillas in small speedboats launched a two-pronged attack on Israeli beaches crowded for the Shavuot holiday today.
Most of the shoppers were stocking up for Shavuot, the Jewish harvest festival that begins Tuesday.
Kogan recalled. "I told them with a stressed Yiddish accent: Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year), Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and of course Shavuot (a holiday celebrating the spring harvest)" he said.