Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day, is observed this year from Sunday evening, May 25, through Monday night, May 26. It celebrates the 68th anniversary of the reunification of Judaism’s holiest city.

A group of about 60 Indigenous representatives from around the globe gathered at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza on Monday, joining hands to show their support for Israel and the Jewish people.

Four times for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest places in the Jewish faith, and once for smuggling a Torah scroll into the sacred site.

Jews pray at the Kotel HaKatan (the Little Western Wall) in Jerusalem's Old city, during Tisha B'Av, on July 27, 2023. Israel on Monday began long-delayed renovation and maintenance work at the ...

JERUSALEM, (AFP) - "No singing ... here is not political or diplomatic," says Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, head of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. "Jewish law absolutely prohibits going to the ...