Comments on: New national holiday in Israel https://www.jwire.com.au/new-national-holiday-israel/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:15:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Norm https://www.jwire.com.au/new-national-holiday-israel/#comment-186449 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:15:26 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=64413#comment-186449 The Yom HaAliyah holiday is one of the best news stories to come out of Israel in a long time. And Yedioth, Haaretz, Israel HaYom, JPost, Arutz7, Times of Israel, and many others reported on the creation of this new holiday. This is hardly just Micki Zohar. In fact, the identical bill was proposed in the 19th Knesset also under the leadership of Likud & Avoda working together, with Gila Gamliel and Hilik Bar leading the way. This bill was also co-signed in the 20th Knesset by Boujie Herzog, Yair Lapid, MKs from Bayit Yehudi, Avoda, Likud, Shas and others… more info here: http://www.facebook.com/YomHaAliyah

]]> By: Ron Burdo https://www.jwire.com.au/new-national-holiday-israel/#comment-185607 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:40:44 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=64413#comment-185607 Concensus or not, most Israeli media did not report about this new “holiday”.
Only a few far-right, religious news site mentioned it.

And it is not going to be a holiday, people are going to work as usual, be busy with cleaning for Pesach
and cooking for the Seder (4 days later), schools will not do anything because it falls during the Pesach school holiday, and the media, mostly post-Zionist and post-Jewish, will hardly mention it.

This is just an initiative of Mickey Zohar, one of the dumbest MKs, to remind others that he exists.

No reason to be enthusiastic about this “holiday”.

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