Yom Yerushalayim 📂 Archived Message
Posted by Mary on May 21, 2020, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Re: David Miller suspended from Labour Party! Absolutely disgraceful. A man of immense integrity. "
Saw this. Enough said. 'Jerusalem Day (Hebrew: יום ירושלים, Yom Yerushalayim) is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank G-d for victory in the Six-Day War and for answering the 2,000-year-old prayer of "Next Year in Jerusalem". Yom Yerushalayim begins at sundown on Thu, 21 May 2020' Wikipedia. That was in 1967. So much blood was spilt. 'On June 10, 1967, a United Nations-brokered ceasefire took effect and the Six-Day War came to an abrupt end. It was later estimated that some 20,000 Arabs and 800 Israelis had died in just 132 hours of fighting. The leaders of the Arab states were left shocked by the severity of their defeat.'
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