You are ignoring one very important fact: the agricultural/natural cycle in Israel is quite different from that of the temperate climates of Europe and North America.
The "dead season" in Israel is the summer - when the heat and drought kill everything. By the start of the summer the "harvest" - at least, the most labor intensive and important grain harvest - is finished: this important time is marked by the Omer period starting at Passover and ending at the Shavuot holiday.
Most agricultural activity ceases with the summer heat, resuming with the grape and olive harvests of late summer (Elul).
The high holidays don't mark the start of a "dead" season like the cold European winter - instead they mark the start of the rainy season. The climate of Israel at this time expresses less of the sense of regret and ingathering, and more of a focus on optimism, planting, and renewed life after months of drought.
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