Israel Independence Day
Israel Independence Day is held on May 12. Date of 2024. יום העצמאות - Yom Ha’atzmaut - on the fifth of Lyar. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual. 
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Israel is the only country in the world that has succeeded in reviving a dead language and using it as a national language. Did you know that a favorite food of Israeli children is schnitzel? Did you know that in Israel, students go to school from Sunday to Thursday?
Yom Haatzmaut is Israeli Independence Day, a day of great celebration held every year in late April or early May – on the day (in the Hebrew calendar) which, in 1948, Israel declared its independence (when members of the “provisional government” read and signed a Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv – the original date corresponded to May 14, 1948). The day prior to Independence Day (Memorial Day or Erev Yom Ha'atzmaut) is a shortened work day, by law.
Other than the official ceremonies, Israelis celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut in a variety of ways. In the cities, the nighttime festivities may be found on the main streets. Crowds will gather to watch public shows offered for free by the municipalities and the government. Many spend the night dancing Israeli folk dances or singing Israeli songs.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Israel memmorial day on May 11 (Yom Hazikaron; יוֹם הַזִּכָּרוֹן - on the forth of Lyar);
Pesach Sheni on May 21 (14 Iyar- פסח שני - a Second Passover);
Lag B'Omer in Israel on May 25
Navy Day in Israel on June 30 (יום חיל הים);
Gazelle Day on July 9
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)