Flags for Yom Yerushalayim--Jerusalem Day

Posted by Tuttle (Jerusalem, Israel) on 18 June 2007 in Cityscape & Urban.

Yom Yerushalayim--Jerusalem Day--is the most recent addition to the Hebrew calendar. It is celebrated on the 28th day of Iyar (six weeks after the Passover seder, one week before the eve of Shavuot). Although Jerusalem has been considered the capital city of the Jewish people since the time of King David--who conquered it and built it as the seat of his monarchy in approximately 1000 B.C.E.--there has never been a special day in honor of the city until the Israeli army took over the ancient, eastern part of the city on the third day of the Six-Day War in June 1967.
This year it was celebrated on May 15th to mark the 40th aniversary of the re-unification.

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