Explainer: How Donuts Became The Israeli Hanukkah Treat – It is believed that these donuts came to Israel via Polish Jewish immigrants, along with the holiday tradition | I24news

As the Jewish festival of Hanukkah approaches, you might see jelly-filled donuts popping up in bakeries across Israel.
Called sufganiyah (plural: sufganiyot) in Hebrew, they typically only appear around the holiday season, usually showing up at the beginning of the Hebrew month Kislev, the month that Hanukkah is in.