Yom Chamishee
Thursday
27 Iyar 5783
May 18 2023
TODAY’S BLOG
A Joyous Jerusalem Day!
Sometimes one photo sums it up! A small boy celebrating Yom Yerushaliyim with his flag.
More photos:
Dancing in the streets: a melange of photos from Channel 14.
People of all ages partying in the streets of our eternal capital:
Young and old rejoicing together!
With appropriate security all around:
The flag march goes through Sha’ar Shechem (the Nablus Gate) under the watchful eye of snipers overhead.
Not even the anarchists could stop the march or dim the spirits:
Dozens of unused flags dumped in Sacher Park by leftists. The absurd message on the blue and white flags: “Free the Palestinian people.”
They also tried to block celebrants from reaching the city:
Left wing anarchists tried to block the road into Jerusalem at the Tunnels Checkpoint. They were all arrested.
And what about those “massive” protests on the Gaza border fence?:
The “massive” protest that didn’t happen. A few dozen waving a couple of PLO flags. By the way, PLO Chairman Abbas flew off to Saudi Arabia this morning.
The scene at the Kotel tonight:
More than 50,000 celebrants at the Kotel tonight.
To sum the day up with one word: “JOYOUS”.
One final thought: as we suggested yesterday about would happen today, all the threats from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and everyone else did not amount to a hill of beans.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.