{"id":33635,"date":"2025-05-26T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33635"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:28:07","slug":"ono-celebrates-jerusalem-reunification-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-celebrates-jerusalem-reunification-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Celebrates Jerusalem Reunification Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33636 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Jerusalem-Day-6.24.jpg\" alt=\"Jerusalem Day Flyer\" width=\"412\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Jerusalem-Day-6.24.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Jerusalem-Day-6.24-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/Jerusalem-Day-6.24-218x218.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h3><strong>Ono Celebrates Jerusalem Day<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Jerusalem Day is an Israeli national holiday celebrated on the 8th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar (which is also the 43 day of the counting of the Omer). This year it falls on the evening of May 25<sup>th<\/sup> and the day of May 26<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024. The holiday marks the reunification of the city of Jerusalem which took place during the Six Day War in 1967.<\/p>\r\n<p>The national holiday was established by the Knesset in the &#8220;Jerusalem Day Law&#8221;.<\/p>\r\n<p>In addition to its official name, some call the day Jerusalem Liberation Day, Jerusalem Freedom Day\u00a0or Jerusalem Reunification Day.<\/p>\r\n<p>The State of Israel also designated this day to be a memorial to all the Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) who perished while making Aliyah. It is estimated that 4,000 Beta Israel died during the transmigration through Sudan to Israel.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem Day is an Israeli national holiday celebrated on the 8th day of the Hebrew month of Iyar (which is also the 43 day of the counting of the Omer). This year it falls on the evening of May 25th and the day of May 26th, 2024. The holiday marks the reunification of the city of Jerusalem which took place during the Six Day War in 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33636,"menu_order":49,"template":"","class_list":["post-33635","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}