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Thursday, June 3, 2021
Jerusalem Pride Parade set to start by commemorating 16-year-old Shira Banki
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Participants in Jerusalem's annual Gay Pride Parade hold up a picture of 15-year-old Shira Banki on August 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Roads are set to close in Jerusalem’s city center starting in one hour for the city’s annual Pride Parade.
The parade will start with a special “traveler’s prayer” ceremony at 3 p.m. at Jerusalem’s Liberty Bell Park in memory of Shira Banki, a 16-year-old killed by an anti-gay extremist in the 2015 parade.
Shira’s parents Uri and Mika, the Tag Meir organization, and Labor party leader Merav Michaeli will take part in the ceremony.
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