Overview
- The atzeres tefillah is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. at the city entrance and run about two hours, with police announcing Route 1 closures from noon between Latrun and Givat Shaul and entry limited to prearranged buses.
- Event leaders stress a tefillah-only format and a kiddush Hashem, with calls for strict decorum as hundreds of thousands are expected and hundreds of buses are being coordinated nationwide.
- Yeshivas Mir issued an official notice that its talmidim will depart the Beis Yisroel campus at 2:10 p.m. and proceed to Malchei Yisroel and HaTurim to join the gathering led by the roshei yeshiva and rabbonim.
- Cross‑community participation widened as Har Hamor’s Rav Tzvi Thau urged his talmidim to attend, Mercaz HaRav’s rosh yeshiva signaled plans to be there, and the Chabad Beis Din publicly called on its community to join.
- Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch called attendance a chiyuv requiring mesirus nefesh and cautioned that if prayer does not bring change there are “other ways,” while Rav Yigal Cohen urged avreichim to leave the beis midrash to show support for Torah learners.