{"id":797483,"date":"2026-05-15T05:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797483\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:34:33","slug":"israel-marks-59th-jerusalem-day-with-nationwide-celebration-old-city-flag-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/797483\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel marks 59th Jerusalem Day with nationwide celebration, Old City flag march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel marked its 59th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-896158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jerusalem Day<\/a> celebration on Thursday with a flag march through the Old City and festivities nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The day comes to celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/six-day-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Six-Day War<\/a> in 1967. This year it also fell on May 14, which is also the anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people poured into Jerusalem\u00a0to celebrate the holiday and participate in the annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-895941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flag march<\/a>, in which thousands bearing Israeli flags march through the streets of the Old City, including the Muslim Quarter, ending at the Western Wall.<\/p>\n<p>Before the march, National Security Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-896229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Itamar Ben-Gvir<\/a> ascended the Temple Mount in the Old City, declaring it to be &#8220;in our hands,&#8221; and stressing that he had &#8220;restored sovereignty on the Temple Mount thanks to determination and deterrence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Later that afternoon, the Israel Police announced that they had arrested a suspect who had been planning a terror attack during the Jerusalem Day celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">There were also several reports of Israeli activists from across the political spectrum who clashed in Jerusalem&#8217;s Old City ahead of the flag march.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel marked its 59th Jerusalem Day celebration on Thursday with a flag march through the Old City and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":797484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[324730,99,325210,47043,321078,50,114370,258877],"class_list":{"0":"post-797483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-flag-march","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israels-declaration-of-independance","11":"tag-jerusalem","12":"tag-jerusalem-day","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-old-city-jerusalem","15":"tag-six-day-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116576968515442912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}