28 Iyar - Samaria Liberation Day | Haggai Huberman
The liberation of Judea and Samaria in 1967 began in northern Samaria, on the day the Old City of Jerusalem was liberated. Also the state settlement in Samaria 10 years later began in northern Samaria.…
Assessment
The piece marks 28 Iyar as a day tied to the liberation of the Shomron, linking it to the same date as the liberation of Jerusalem's Old City in 1967. It notes that state-sponsored settlement in the Shomron began a decade later, also in the northern Shomron. The author proposes designating the coming Shabbat, adjacent to Jerusalem Day, as Shabbat HaShomron. This frames a specific historical and settlement narrative around a date that competes for public and religious attention with the more widely observed Jerusalem Day.