People hold a giant Israeli national flag at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 25, 2025. (Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Jerusalem Day, known in Hebrew as Yom Yerushalayim, is an Israeli national holiday that commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967. For many Israelis, it marks the moment when the Jewish people regained access to the Old City and the Western Wall – Judaism’s holiest site – after nearly two decades of separation.
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