The Hebrew date 28 Iyar — corresponding this year to the evening of May 18 and the following day – is celebrated in Israel as Jerusalem Day, commemorating the reunification of the city after the ...

JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Israeli nationalists marched through the streets of Jerusalem on Wednesday, waving Israeli flags, singing, dancing and banging drums. As part of Jerusalem Day, an ...

There are voices – loud, passionate, sometimes even well meaning – that tell us this is not the time to celebrate Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim). They argue that as our soldiers fight in Gaza, as ...

For anyone experiencing the Flag March on Jerusalem Day, it’s hard to ever shake it from your head. An Israeli holiday created to commemorate the 1968 unification of East and West Jerusalem, Jerusalem ...

Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day, is observed this year from Sunday evening, May 25, through Monday night, May 26. It celebrates the 68th anniversary of the reunification of Judaism’s holiest city.

Israeli police tussle with a young man in the Old City during a march for Jerusalem Day on Monday — JOHN WESSELS Crowds of Israelis streamed through Jerusalem's Old City, where some scuffled with ...