Does one need to light Chanukah lights at both entrances nowadays in Israel?

Question

Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 671:8 rules that if one has a courtyard with two entrances on different sides, one lights Chanukah lights at both entrances, to prevent passersby from suspecting that the owner has not performed the mitzvah.

However, Rema writes that:

בזמן הזה שכולם מדליקין בפנים ממש ואין היכר לבני רשות הרבים כלל אפי' יש לחצר או לבית הרבה פתחים לארבע רוחות אין מדליקין אלא פעם אחת בפנים כנ"ל וכן המנהג פשוט:‏

Nowadays, when everyone lights properly indoors, and those in the street cannot notice at all, even if the courtyard or house has many entrances to all four directions, one lights only once inside (as mentioned above). Such is the widespread custom.

Is this ruling of Rema applicable nowadays in Israel, where, it seems to me, many do have the custom to light outside by their doorways?

At first glance, it would appear that Rema's ruling would not be applicable. However, there a couple of points which could mean that it still applies:

1. Many people in Israel, while still ensuring that their lights are visible from the street, will light at a window, rather than outside a door. Maybe that fact is enough to remove the suspicious appearance of a door without lights?

2. Even if the vast majority of people now light by the door in Israel, the fact is that for hundreds of years people lit inside. Maybe this means that anyone seeing a door without lights would not necessarily suspect the inhabitants of not performing the mitzvah at all, but would instead presume that they had lit indoors?

Answer 1

R. Eliezer Melamed in Peninei Halakha Zemanim ch. 13 fn. 2 (writing for an Israeli audience) rules as follows (emphasis mine):

The Sages state that if one’s home has two entrances on different sides, he should light at both entrances, so that household members are not suspected of neglecting the mitzva (Shabbat 23a; sa 671:8). However, as we saw in the previous note, nowadays many people light inside. Therefore, it is not necessary to light at both entrances, because there is no concern that neglecting to do so will arouse suspicion. A number of Rishonim write this, as do many Aĥaronim including Rema 671:8.

Thus he appears to believe that Rema's ruling is indeed applicable in contemporary Israel.

This is also reported to be the ruling of R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (brought in Halichot Shlomo Mo'adei Hashanah Tishrei-Adar, ch. 13, para. 11 and fn. יט, which can be seen here). This is notwithstanding his personal practice to indeed light at both entrances, as discussed there (ibid. fn. 52) and in Danny Schoemann's answer.

R. Yitzhak Yosef in Yalkut Yosef Mo'adim Chanukah 671:27 also concurs with this ruling.

Answer 2

It was well known that the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach זצ"ל who used to live on Rehov Porush 11 in Jerusalem used to light his Chanuka Menorah at his front door and a single candle at the window of his house facing Rehov Usishkin, as I already wrote here.

That said, I recently asked a local Posek why nobody lights on all sides, and he answered that people walk around and can see for themselves that you lit somewhere.