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In recent years, marchers have engaged in violence and shouted racist slogans as they approached the Muslim Quarter, targeting Israeli Arabs in East Jerusalem. This year police handed out leaflets asking shopkeepers to close up early.
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Some 50,000 people attended a Jerusalem Day parade, marching to the Kotel. Police arrested three Jewish teens who cried out racial slurs at Arabs, and arrested five Arab teens and wounded four people.
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No reason to ban singers who did not serve in IDF from performing at Memorial Day ceremonies.
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Israel honors the memory of 25,578 fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks. President Shimon Peres, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Police Chief Yohanan Danino attend the official ceremony at the Western Wall.
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On the evening before Passover, a formal search of the home and all its surrounding properties while holding a lit candle. It is customary to put pieces of hard bread in various places some time before the search.
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Pesach, known in English as Passover, is one of the most commonly observed Jewish holidays, even by otherwise non-observant Jews. According to the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey, 67% of Jews routinely hold or attend a Pesach seder.
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Police are to restrict Muslims' entry to Temple Mount after information came through that disruptions may happen after Friday prayers, reflective of previous weeks, has lead police to restrict entry.
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Mohammed Asfour was hit and killed with a rubber bullet during riots that erupted in his home village of Aboud, in solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainees who went on a hunger strike, in an Israeli prison.
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