<<to Israel on chol hamoed.Their LOR again said to keep 2 days for the first days of chag and one day for Simchat Torah/Shemini Atzeret. Has anyone heard of such a split in the middle of chag?>> What's the problem? When in chu"l, two days. When they arrived in Israel and, just as in the old days when they learned the date of Yomtov, one day. David