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In 1967, in the Six-Day War, Israel captured and occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank from Jordan on 7 June 1967. Later that day, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan declared what is often quoted during Jerusalem Day: [7] [8] This morning, the Israel Defense Forces liberated Jerusalem. We have united Jerusalem, the divided capital of ...
The day exists partly in opposition to Israel's Jerusalem Day, which has been celebrated by Israelis since May 1968 and was declared a national holiday by the Knesset in 1998. [5] Today, rallies are held on Quds Day in various countries in the Muslim world , as well as in non-Muslim communities around the world, [ 6 ] in protest against the ...
The Dance of Flags [1] (Hebrew: ריקוד דגלים or ריקודגלים, romanized: Rikud Degalim), or March of Flags (מצעד הדגלים, Mitzad ha’Degalim), is an annual flag flying parade on Jerusalem Day to celebrate what some Israelis term the "reunification of Jerusalem", but more widely-recognised as the military occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem of the West Bank ...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s warning that Israel risked becoming a “pariah” and his call for new elections marked a momentous moment in modern US-Israel relations.
GAZA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Hamas released three Israeli hostages and Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday, the first day of a ceasefire suspending a 15-month-old war that has ...
After Israel conquered East Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967 during the Six-Day War, Israel argued that it had the stronger right to the city. [20] Very soon after its conquest of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel merged East Jerusalem with West Jerusalem by administratively extending the municipal boundary of the city.
1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. [3] [4] His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
The speech is expected to be the administration's last word on the dispute that Kerry had hoped to resolve during his four years as secretary of state. John Kerry to give final speech on Israeli ...