[Avodah] Behab and Yom Haatzmaut

[Shalom Berger]

According to the present position of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel, when the 
5th of Iyyar falls on a Monday, Yom Haatzmaut is pushed off until Tuesday. 
See http://www.lookstein.org/resources/chief_rabbi.pdf .

Although this was instituted in order to avoid hillul Shabbat in preparation 
for Yom Hazikaron, it also keeps Yom Haatzmaut from ever falling out on 
Behab, since the 5th of Iyyar cannot come out on a Thursday (it matches the 
seventh day of Pesach, which, based on Lo Bed"u Pesach, cannot fall out on a 
Thursday).

Shalom

Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger, Ed.D.
The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora
School of Education
Bar-Ilan University
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