page_title: Jewish holidays
section_title: Yom HaAliyah—Aliyah Day
hierarchical_section_title: Jewish holidays / Israeli/Jewish national holidays and days of remembrance / Yom HaAliyah—Aliyah Day
context_page_description: Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim, are holidays observed in Judaism and by Jews throughout the Hebrew calendar. They include religious, cultural and national elements, derived from three sources: biblical mitzvot; rabbinic mandates; Jewish history and the history of the State of Israel.
  Jewish holidays occur on the same dates every year in the Hebrew calendar, but the dates vary in the Gregorian. This is because the Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar, whereas the Gregorian is a solar calendar.
context_section_description: Yom HaAliyah: 10 Nisan
  Aliyah Day (יום העלייה) is an Israeli national holiday celebrated annually on the tenth of Nisan. The day was established to acknowledge Aliyah, immigration to the Jewish state, as a core value of the State of Israel, and honor the ongoing contributions of Olim (immigrants) to Israeli society.
  Immigration to Israel is a recognized religious value of Judaism, sometimes referred to as the Gathering of Israel. The date chosen for Yom HaAliyah, 10 Nisan, has religious significance: it is the day on which Joshua and the Israelites crossed the Jordan River at Gilgal into the Promised Land. It was thus the first documented "mass Aliyah". The alternative date observed in the school system, 7 Heshvan, falls during the week of the Torah portion in which God instructs Abraham to leave his home and his family and go up to the Land of Israel.
  At the present time, observance of this day appears to be secular in nature.
caption: Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant by Benjamin West
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