This is temporary, due to corona. Building minyans are nothing new in Israel, but usually they're "lobby minyans" held only for "quickie" davening, like maariv after Shabbos, not on a regular basis, with a Torah, for longer davening. And definitely not Shabbos morning, when everybody tends to go off in their own direction.
Until now.
And one of the joys of life in a Jewish country, I've decided, is waking up Shabbos morning surrounded by prayer.
Not just mumbling, but all-out singing, with gusto.
(This picture has been making the rounds of social media... best guesses seem to suggest it's somewhere in England. It’s definitely not Israel, so I guess this phenomenon has spread out a little.)
Last Shabbos, our last in our old apartment, I went out for a walk with the kids after we lit candles (with masks on!). We passed at least a dozen little minyanim, so we started
