It’s a special time here in Israel and elsewhere in the Jewish world, where people are ushering in the new year according to the Hebrew calendar. As we move from the year 5774 to 5775, we look back at the year that was, and ask our top hosts and contributors for their three top picks.

GILAD HALPERN, TLV1 news editor, producer and host of “So Much To Say,” talks about the most important stories in Israel this year: The Gaza War/Operation Protective Edge, the sentencing of Ehud Olmert, the acquittal of Avigdor Lieberman, and the death of Rav Ovadia Yosef, the chief Sephardi rabbi.