Yom Yerushalaim Sameach

Today we celebrate the 44th year since the miraculous reunification of Jerusalem, the ancient heart of the Jewish people and the capital of the state of Israel. Today we remember the soldiers' words carried on radio waves throughout the world crying הכותל בידינו, "The Kotel is in our hands."

As long as deep in the heart
The soul of a Jew yearns
And towards the east
An eye looks to Zion
Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free people in our land
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Hatikvah