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  Jerusalem Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, Jerusalem was supposed to be an international city, not part of either the proposed Jewish or Arab state.
Nineteen years later, East Jerusalem was captured by Israel as a result of the Six-Day War.
On May 12, 1968, the government proclaimed the holiday of "Jerusalem Day" for the 28th of Iyar, corresponding to the date that the Israeli military captured those parts of Jerusalem which had previously been in Arab possession.
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 Jerusalem Day
Jerusalem is one of the most diverse and interesting cities of the world.
Yehuda the Maccabi conquers Jerusalem and cleanses the Temple
Jerusalem was the capitol of the Hashmonai kingdom in 133 BCE as a result of
www.amit.org.il /learning/english/jerusalem/index.htm   (300 words)

  
 Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Reunification Day
Since the destruction of Jerusalem was a watershed event in Jewish history that began thousands of years of mourning, the reunification of Jerusalem is considered a joyous celebration that begins the process of reversing thousands of years of destruction and exile.
It was in Jerusalem that Abraham met with Malkhi-Tzedek (Gen 14:18; Heb 7:1).
Jerusalem is the name of the coming paradise of God, which descends upon the earth after the millennial reign of Messiah (Rev 3:12, 21:2, 10).
www.hebrew4christians.com /Holidays/Spring_Holidays/Yom_Yerushalayim/yom_yerushalayim.html   (1127 words)

  
 Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Day
Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Day - is the anniversary of the liberation and unification of Jerusalem under Jewish sovereignty that occurred during the Six Day War.
The liberation of Jerusalem in 1967 marks the first time in thousands of years that the entire city of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism, was under Jewish sovereignty.
The destruction of Jerusalem was a watershed event in Jewish history that began thousands of years of mourning for Jerusalem, so, it follows, that the reunification of Jerusalem should be a joyous celebration that begins the process of reversing thousands of years of destruction and exile.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/yomyerushalayim.html   (477 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day March - 2004
Jerusalem Day commemorates the liberation of the Temple Mount and Biblical Jerusalem, the city of David, in 1967.
Jerusalem symbolized all their hopes when they were taken to their deaths by anti-godly and cruel nations in the Inquisition, the pogroms and in the Holocaust.
Jerusalem is built as a city which is bound firmly together; There the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
www.templemountfaithful.org /Events/jeru2004.htm   (2195 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day
Jerusalem was divided during the War of Independence and nineteen years later was reunited as a result of the 6-Day War.
This law determined that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel and the location of all state authorities.
Jerusalem attracts tourists from around the world who come to see her beauty, to imbibe of her past and make pilgrimage to the holy sites, which serve as a place for prayer and a connecting point for the members of all three major religions.
www.knesset.gov.il /holidays/eng/jer_intro.htm   (600 words)

  
 Talk:Jerusalem Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quds Day There also exists a celebration by the same name in English: Jerusalem Day or Quds Day is largely an anti-Israel rally to show support the Palestinian people.
This law determined that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel and the seat of all government ministries and national agencies.
On March 23, 1998 the Knesset passed the second and third readings of the "Jerusalem Day Law", which reiterated that the date that Jerusalem was "liberated" during the Six Day War was now a national holiday.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Jerusalem_Day   (564 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day - The March to the Temple Mount
On that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them shall be as David on that day; and the house of David shall be like a divine being, like the angel of the Lord before them.
On this day we shall say to all the world that the destiny of all mankind is connected and depends on the destiny of Israel and the redemption of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the land of Israel.
On Jerusalem Day we shall stand on the Temple Mount and we shall pray for the renewal of the kingdom of G-d and King David on this hill, Jerusalem and throughout all the land of Israel and all the world.
www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /march2001.html   (977 words)

  
 UJC - Jerusalem Day Greetings
In a day and age where it is common to call out for million person marches for various causes, it is time to have a million-person march on Jerusalem in support of bringing peace to this holy city.
We must seek to ensure that especially in Yerushalayim, acts of loving kindness are shared with all of its citizens and that we accentuate the positive qualities that speak of it as a unifying force of Israel, even as we must decry factionalism which seeks to divide Yerushalayim and the Jewish people therein.
Jerusalem is the Israeli city with the largest non-Jewish population (approx.
www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=77963   (1556 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
From 1948, when the State of Israel was formed, until 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city, half belonging to Israel and half to Jordan.
In the Six Day War in 1967, Israel won control of the entire city and Jerusalem remains an Israeli city to this day.
Jerusalem is the most beautiful, special city in the world (although this might not be reflected in my very unprofessional photography...).
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Prairie/5493/jerusalem.html   (135 words)

  
 Israel celebrates Jerusalem Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis celebrated Jerusalem Day — the anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast War — with parades, flags and fireworks on Monday.
"Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years, and the Temple Mount is the heart of the Jewish nation and its center, forever united and indivisible," Sharon told the crowd.
I remember the days when it was under Jordanian occupation and we used to stand over there and look," she said, pointing toward a hill on the Jewish side of Jerusalem, complaining that even now, Jews are banned from the holy site.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/mideast/2001-05-21-day.htm   (432 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jerusalem Day commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, following the division of the city between 1948 and 1967.
Jerusalem would belong to neither, holding special standing under the auspices of the U.N. The British mandate ended on May 15, 1948, at which time 7 Arab states declared war on the newly created Jewish State.
The cease-fire ending Israel's War of Independence left Jerusalem a divided city, with Jordan retaining control of the eastern portion encompassing the Old City and the Western Wall and Israel retaining the western side.
www.jerusalem.muni.il /english/lior/jer_day/jer-day.html   (281 words)

  
 Jerusalem
Jerusalem is the heart and soul of the Land of Israel.
In celebration of Jerusalem Day, her cherished history, based on ancient Jewish sources, is retold.
Jerusalem's Old City and Temple Mount — the focal point of Jewish destiny is in danger of being relinquished.
www.aish.com /jewishissues/jerusalem   (517 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people: and the voice of weeping shall be heard no more in her, nor the voice of crying.” (Isaiah 65:18—19).
Today, on Jerusalem Day, reflect on what Jerusalem means to the Jewish people and to all who share in our common roots of Biblical faith.
Jerusalem is mentioned in the Bible over 700 times, yet not a single mention of it appears in the Koran.
www.lttn.org /00-06-01-email.html   (635 words)

  
 JERUSALEM DAY MARCH
Jerusalem was the capital only when the Israeli state existed in the land of Israel until 70 C.E. and then again since the year 1948 the year of the rebirth of Israel as a nation and as a state.
Even when they were far from the land they could describe the beauty, the holiness of Jerusalem because, when they were taken from the city, they took all the views in their memories and passed them from father to son.
Jerusalem was, is and always will be, the focus, the heart, the soul of the G-d and people of Israel, the eternal capital and location of the godly covenant of the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and His people.
www.templemountfaithful.org /980524.htm   (2663 words)

  
 Iran - "Jerusalem Day"
“Jerusalem Day,” this year as in years past, was exploited by Iran and its supporters to call for the destruction of Israel, the support for the armed Palestinian struggle (i.e., terrorism), the rule of Islam over the entire world and the desire for a world without the United States.
As previously, “Jerusalem Day” was celebrated with rallies, parades and demonstrations in Teheran, Syria and by Shiite population centers in Lebanon and Iraq, and was exploited, as usual, for holding military processions and the dissemination of crude anti-Israeli and anti-American hate propaganda.
In Damascus “Jerusalem Day” was celebrated mainly by the Palestinian terrorist organizations which operate from Syria.
www.intelligence.org.il /eng/eng_n/iran_je_e.htm   (963 words)

  
 FactsOfIsrael.com: Jerusalem Day celebrated
Yesterday was Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday that celebrates the reunification of the city 35 years ago.
Jerusalem was awash in blue and white yesterday, as a subdued but determined city forgot about the terrorism it has suffered and remembered its historic reunification 35 years ago.
It was a day marked by remembrance of those who fell in the battle for Jerusalem, and thanksgiving for what their heroism gave to Israel.
www.factsofisrael.com /blog/archives/000029-print.html   (730 words)

  
 Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Day
Jerusalem Day is celebrated on the 28th of the Hebrew month of Iyar (usually in the month of May).
This is the day according to the Hebrew calendar that the Old City of Jerusalem was liberated during the 1967 Six-Day War.
It is sometimes difficult to explain to an outsider the uniqueness of Jerusalem to the average Israeli.
www.yehidoshelolam.org /C642410558/E24659100   (435 words)

  
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Temple Mount compound, a flashpoint shrine in Jerusalem holy to Muslims and Jews and a frequent scene of
Jerusalem is an occupied city like all the territories," he said, referring to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israelis don't understand that Jerusalem, especially the al-Aqsa mosque, is part of the religion of Islam.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3095620,00.html   (350 words)

  
 Whose Jerusalem ? - Christian Action for Israel
Jerusalem Day - 2000 - The March of the Faithful to Biblical Jerusalem and the Temple Mount
Jerusalem is a spiritual centre not only for the Kingdom of God, but for opposing forces from the kingdom of darkness.
Jerusalem - The historic Covenant of Jerusalem was presented to the Israeli government on Wednesday, May 19, 1993.
www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /whosjeru.html   (1158 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Jerusalem Day commemorations began Wednesday night, and continue on Thursday, but the holiday will officially be on Friday.
Although throughout the years the city was under the rule of many nations, including the Assyrians, Persians and Romans, Jerusalem is the enduring center of Jewish belief and identity.
On June 28, the Government of Israel proclaimed the Reunification of Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel." The Chief Rabbinate recognized the 28th of Iyar as a religious holiday of thanksgiving.
www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=44175   (720 words)

  
 Israel - Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
Jerusalem was divided into a western part annexed by Israel and an eastern part annexed by Jordan.
Israel is currently also embroiled in an ongoing conflict with Palestinians in the territories controlled since the Six Day War in 1967, despite the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993, and the ongoing efforts of Israeli, Palestinian and global peacemakers.
Moreover, some of the dissenting countries do not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, due to what they perceive as illegal Israeli action in designating the city to be its capital in the first place (1950), as well as Israel's capture of the eastern half from Jordan, in 1967.
www.basicjudaism.org /israel.html   (4690 words)

  
 Israelis Celebrate Jerusalem Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Israelis are celebrating Jerusalem Day, an annual holiday aimed at strengthening Jewish claims over the city at the heart of the Mideast conflict.
The Palestinians want the Old City and the rest of East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, but the message of Jerusalem Day is that the city is Jewish.
At a Jerusalem Day ceremony on a Six Day War battlefield, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made it clear that is not going to happen.
voanews.com /english/2006-05-25-voa44.cfm   (370 words)

  
 Jerusalem day
Then, on the third day of the war, these were the soldiers who burst into the Old City through The Lion’s Gate and excitedly made their way toward the Kotel and the Temple Mount.
Motta Gur, the commander of the paratroopers, announced, “The Temple Mount is in our hands!” The exhausted soldiers that had been fighting tirelessly for days, reached the Wall, touched the stones, and did not even attempt to hide their tears.
Those who were privileged to touch the stones of the Kotel remembered their friends who fell in the battles of the previous days.
english.thekotel.org /content.asp?Id=170   (552 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran protesters denounce Israel
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of the capital, Tehran, to mark Jerusalem Day and show their solidarity with the Palestinians.
Jerusalem Day is marked on the last Friday of Islam's holiest month of Ramadan.
Friday is also the 55th anniversary of the United Nations resolution which led to the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2526939.stm   (403 words)

  
 israelinsider: Jerusalem Day marks 34 years of city's reunification
Celebrated today according to the Hebrew date, Jerusalem Day marks 34 years of the city's reunification as the capital of the State of Israel.
Additional Jerusalem Day programs will include a central memorial ceremony to the Israeli soldiers who fell during the Six Day War in attempts to liberate the city.
Security in Jerusalem is tight, with thousands of police officers, border police and soldiers stationed in the capital to protect the Jerusalem Day events.
www.israelinsider.com /channels/politics/articles/pol_0021.htm   (443 words)

  
 Who Owns Jerusalem?
Jerusalem is in the news these days way out proportion to the size or economic significance of this relatively small city in the hills of the tiny nation of Israel.
On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.
Jerusalem Day is celebrated (complete with a roster of speeches, an art exhibit, a folkloric show, and a youth program) as far off as Dearborn, Michigan.
www.ldolphin.org /psalm2.html   (17411 words)

  
 israelinsider: diplomacy: PA: Jerusalem Day "an illusion"
A senior Palestinian official said Israel's 38th annual Jerusalem Day marked a "fl day in Palestinian history," even as thousands of Israelis celebrated on Monday to mark Israel's reunification of Jerusalem.
He also criticized a claim by Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski that many Palestinians want to be part of the "Israeli" Jerusalem, and cited how Palestinians are excluded from Israeli activities in the city and from a municipal vote.
Mohammed Hussein, director of the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount compound, a flashpoint shrine in Jerusalem holy to Muslims and Jews and a frequent scene of Israeli-Palestinian violence, said Palestinians did not recognize "Jerusalem Day," or a united Jerusalem.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Diplomacy/5748.htm   (491 words)

  
 Jerusalem Day - The March to the Temple Mount
We shall swear faithfulness to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and the land of Israel in the same boundaries which G–d specified in the covenant which He made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their seed, Israel.
On Jerusalem Day we shall stand on the Temple Mount and we shall pray for the renewal of the kingdom of G–d and King David on this hill, Jerusalem and throughout all the land of Israel and all the world.
The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement calls on everyone to participate in this godly march to the Temple Mount on the day commemorating the liberation of Jerusalem and to be a part of G–d’s prophetic end-time activities.
www.worthynews.com /news-features/temple-mount-9.html   (1115 words)

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