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yom hazikaron, memorial day, remembrance day, Israel, yom haatzmaut,independence, israel day,holiday, Sunday evening May 4 through Monday May 5 is Yom Hazikaron, Israel's National Remembrance Day for the Fallen & the Victims of Terror.

Monday evening May 5 through Tuesday May 6 is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence day.

The official "switch" from Yom Hazikaron to Yom Ha'atzmaut takes place a few minutes after sundown, with a ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery in which the national flag is raised from half staff to the top of the pole. Usually, the president of Israel will deliver a speech of congratulations while soldiers representing all the various branches and units of the Israel Defense Forces parade with their flags. In recent decades this smaller-scale ceremony has replaced a much larger daytime parade which was the main event during the 1950s and '60s. -more
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