Just a little longer...

No, I am not a Harry Potter fan, but I do recognize that everyone else in the world is. Too bad kids in Israel are going to have to wait another day though.

It's not that Ben-Gurion Airport's architects forgot to include Terminal 9 3/4 in their new hi-tech designs, but 12:01 [tomorrow] morning poses a serious challenge to Israeli fans hoping to seize an immediate copy of the book. Not only is this the eerie witching hour, but it also happens to be Shabbat. So while fans around the globe will be storming bookshops to grab their long-reserved copies of J.K. Rowling's sixth bestseller, many Israelis are being forced to grin and bear the suspense for a whole extra day.

"The next thing you know they will only let Harry Potter come out in Israel if he puts on a kippa," secular opposition leader Yosef Lapid snorted, unsurprisingly, to The Jerusalem Post.

Oy vey!