Lag B'Omer in Israel
Lag B'Omer in Israel is held on May 25. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. Help us
לַ״ג בָּעוֹמֶר - a minor holiday that occurs on the 33rd day of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot. A break from the semi-mourning of the Omer, key aspects of Lag B’Omer include holding Jewish weddings (it’s the one day during the Omer when Jewish law permits them), lighting bonfires and getting haircuts.
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Pesach Sheni on May 21 (14 Iyar- פסח שני - a Second Passover);
Navy Day in Israel on June 30 (יום חיל הים);
International Firgun Day on July 17 (In 2014, Made in JLM, an Israeli non-profit community group, set out to create "International Firgun Day", a holiday celebrated yearly on July 17, where people share compliments or express genuine pride in the accomplishment of others on social media);
Seventeenth of Tammuz in Israel on July 23 (hb. שבעה עשר בתמוז - Shivah Asar B’Tammuz. Tammuz - The start of a three-week mourning period when Jews don’t have weddings because of the breach of the walls of Jerusalem leading to the Ninth of Av (Tisha. B'Av) which commemorates the destruction of both the first and the second Holy temples);
Tu B'Av in Israel on August 18 (lit. 'fifteenth of Av', hebrew- ט"וּ באב - is a minor Jewish holiday. In modern-day Israel, it is celebrated as a holiday of love.