Yom Ha’atzmaut
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Israel’s Independence Day, celebrated on the fifth day of the month of Lyar, which is the Hebrew date of the formal establishment of the State of Israel, when members of the “provisional government” read and signed a Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv. The original date corresponded to May 14, 1948.
Events marked with ☼ are part of the Ohel Jacob calendar