Blocks access to the site on Shabbat and Jewish holidays according to the selected city. Displays local candle lighting and havdalah times.

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Shabbat Blocker automatically prevents access to your WordPress site during Shabbat and Jewish holidays, based on accurate times from <a href="https://www.hebcal.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hebcal</a>.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Manual city selection (Jerusalem, New York, London, Los Angeles, etc.).</li>
<li>Displays candle lighting and havdalah times, adjusted to the selected timezone.</li>
<li>Multilingual display: Hebrew when the selected city is in Israel, English otherwise.</li>
<li>Simple settings page – choose your city once and it just works.</li>
<li>Lightweight and fast – no unnecessary options.</li>
</ul>
This plugin is ideal for businesses, organizations, and personal sites that want to respect Shabbat observance and Jewish holiday closures.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to the public Hebcal.com API to obtain Shabbat and Jewish holiday times.
• What it’s used for 
 The plugin fetches candle-lighting and havdalah times for the selected city in order to display the block page during Shabbat/holidays.
• What data is sent and when 
 On the front end, when the block page needs to show times, the plugin sends: 
 – The selected city identifier (geonameid) and the current Gregorian date (gy, gm, gd) as query parameters to Hebcal’s /shabbat endpoint. 
 No personal data is sent. No persistent identifiers are collected.
• Provider 
 Hebcal – a public Jewish calendar service. 
 Privacy Policy: https://www.hebcal.com/home/privacy-policy 
 Licensing / API information: https://www.hebcal.com/home/help

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