Thousands celebrate Jerusalem Day with dancing, music outside the Great Synagogue

By Sam Sokol and Charlie Summers

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5 June 2024, 4:40 pm

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Thousands of teenagers gather in front of Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue ahead of the Jerusalem Day Flag March, June 5, 2024. (Sam Sokol / The Times of Israel)

Thousands of teenagers gather in front of Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue for today’s Jerusalem Day march. Waving flags, they are dancing and singing religious and nationalist songs – including one in which the Biblical Samson calls on God to help him avenge himself on the Philistines.

Some activists with the far-right Otzma Yehudit party are passing out stickers extolling National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir with the message — “flying the flag with power.”