Between the Nablus Gate and the Western Wall, along the axis where the flag parade will probably pass, Israeli flags have been hoisted for many years.
No one waves them, but they are more significant than the flags that will march there the next day, or on loan from Shlonsky's poem: "Their march is evil - we are here";
Day after day.
Year after year.
Dozens of Jewish families living along Hagai Street and its branches - from "Beit Rand" and "Torat Chaim", through "Beit Danon" and "Beit Wittenberg", "Beit Hanof", "Beit Hatzel" and other settlement points - are the real flags, Long on this route.
Live flags.
A parade of life.
In the days when the removal of Israeli flags from cars, public buildings and pillars (even in the Baka neighborhood in the west of the city) became the national sport of Jerusalem Arabs, the flag parade is of great importance.
And when in the east of the city the Israeli flags are stepped on and schools cancel trips to Jerusalem, this event must not be given up.
But settlement of the valley axis, Jerusalem's significant historical nucleus, whose condensation and strengthening is the order of the hour, is all the more important.
The "valley" is one of the two main pedestrian routes to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
It is mainly used by the residents of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Jerusalem.
Many hundreds of Jewish families, some of whom are known in the history of the old Jerusalem settlement: Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the reviver of the Hebrew language, lived on this road until the riots of 1936 and 1936;
The families of two Israeli presidents - Rivlin and Navon;
David Hacohen, grandfather of the writer Haim Beer;
Israel Dov Frumkin, founder of the Havatzelet newspaper;
And also R. Yehuda Leib Yavetz, the grandfather of the historian Zeev Yavetz.
Zionism at its best
The state erred when it was satisfied after the Six Day War with the rehabilitation and population of the Jewish Quarter only.
Even in the Muslim Quarter, formerly known as the "Mixed Quarter," thousands of Jews lived for many years, but unlike the Jewish Quarter - we did not return there.
The state has left this arena to ideological associations such as the Crown of Priests, who have done and are doing there as best they can, but that is not enough.
"This event must not be missed."
Last year's flag parade,
In the last decade, we find out today in "Israel of the Week", about a quarter of its residents have left the Old City - the vast majority of them Muslims from the Muslim Quarter.
This means that despite the difficulty, more and more areas of the Old City outside the Jewish Quarter can be inhabited by Jews.
This is the heart of Zion (Jerusalem), and the return of the Jews there will be Zionism at its best.
It is also an answer to terrorism that is trying to harm Jews along this path, and also an answer to partition plans for Jerusalem, which in the United States are once again being worked on by research institutes affiliated with the Democratic Party.
A state condensation of Jewish settlement in the Old City will torpedo future pressures.
In the flags, as Herzl wrote many years ago, although "people are led to confirm what they want and even to the land of destination," in Jerusalem the facts on the ground will be determined.
The future of Old Jerusalem will be determined in more and more courtyards and buildings that Jews will purchase and settle in, as well as in the "march" of many Jerusalem residents, who reach the Western Wall through the Nablus Gate and the Valley, without flags, for 55 years, daily - Shacharit, Mincha and Arabit .
This is the real life march in the heart of Jerusalem.
The flags the next day only signify for us a direction and a way.
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