Jerusalem day

'Blood on their hands': Top Modern Orthodox rabbi says haredim must serve in IDF

Twenty-six students gone. 39 relatives gone. Rabbi Kenneth Brander on what Israel's religious Zionist community owes its soldiers, and what it owes everyone else.

 Young Jewish men holding Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022.
 Jewish men dance with Israeli flags during Jerusalem Day celebrations at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2025.

Jerusalem Day’s violence should not erase the memory of a divided city - opinion

 Young Jewish men holding Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022.

Jerusalem Day violence exposes dangerous culture of impunity in Israel - opinion

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Basler Flight Service in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Trump’s Evangelical alliance alarms defenders of religious freedom - opinion


UAE summons Israeli ambassador over Jerusalem flag march 'violations'

The UAE condemned "the deplorable and offensive violations against the Palestinian people that took place in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque."

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025

'I prefer to live in Jerusalem than Washington,' Huckabee says at Knesset event honoring the city

Huckabee spoke of his love for the city, saying, "I tell people all the time, I prefer to live in Jerusalem rather than Washington every day of the year."

 US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Israeli officials at the Knesset, May 28, 2025.

'We are not afraid of the word occupation,' Smotrich says at Jerusalem Day rally

“We are liberating Gaza – and settling it,” Smotrich said, addressing a crowd gathered for the annual celebration.

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024.

WATCH: Thousands mark Jerusalem Day, clashes erupt in Muslim quarter

Thousands of people gather in the capital for Jerusalem Day. Rioters clash with police and Muslim quarter residents.

 Jewish men clash with police during Jerusalem Day celebrations at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2025.

Rewriting the rules: Jerusalem Day marks Hamas’s waning grip - analysis

The IDF’s pummeling of Hamas in Gaza has taken the terrorist organization out of the Jerusalem equation.

 Jewish men dance with Israeli flags during Jerusalem Day celebrations at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2025.

WATCH: 'Without Nakba, there is no victory': Violence breaks out in Jerusalem's Old City

Jerusalem Post witnesses said that they saw rioters spit on Standing Together activists, assault police officers, and sing racist chants.

Israeli Left and Right-wing activist clash in Jerusalem's Old City's Damascus Gate, during the Jerusalem Day flag march, May 26, 2025

The Jerusalem Dispatch: Jerusalem Day celebrations, DC shooting, the state of the capital - WATCH

Hosts Elliot Jager and Calev Ben-David focus on Jerusalem Day, which started as a celebration of the city being united under Israeli sovereignty in 1967.

 The Jerusalem Dispatch

Ben-Gvir bucks status-quo, announces prayer permitted on Temple Mount

In a speech given during his visit to the site, Ben-Gvir said he was "praying for victory in the Israel-Hamas War, the return of all hostages being held in Gaza."

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025

Lessons of the Six Day War - opinion

There is no Jewish future in a world where we must rely on the benevolence of non-Jews to guarantee our survival. 

 SOLDIERS sit in front of the Western Wall after its capture in the Six Day War. The panic of the month before gave way to national joy, states the writer.

Jerusalem Day 2025: What Israel's capital means to us, 48 years since aliyah - opinion

Fourteen years later, in 1977, we made aliyah!  And here I am, almost 48 years later, in our Jerusalem.

 The writer and wife, Rita, in Jerusalem, in front of the Neveh Schechter building in the Nayot neighborhood