{"id":27755,"date":"2008-06-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/washington-dc-and-new-york-city-celebrate-60-years-to-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:24:01","slug":"washington-dc-and-new-york-city-celebrate-60-years-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/washington-dc-and-new-york-city-celebrate-60-years-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC and New York City celebrate 60 years to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><br \/><\/P> <P>Over 50,000 people participated on Sunday in an impressive salute event to honor the 60 years anniversary of Israel that was held in New York City and Washington DC. <\/P> <P><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/www.maccabi.co.il\/mtpic\/post-6-1212369919_mf[1].jpg\" align=baseline border=1><\/P> <P>In the capital city the city center was populated by supporters who came to see a concert by the group &#8220;Mashina&#8221; and other local bands. In New York City was held the traditional parade on the fifth avenue, led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. <\/P> <P>One of the exhibit in the parade were the faces of Maccabi Tel Aviv captain, Derrick Sharp, who&#8217;s face were picked to represent one of the faces of the country of Israel, as an American who lives in Israel as a local citizen.<BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozen of thousands of people took part in a parade to honor the state of Israel in the USA. Among the posters seen as &#8220;The faces of Israel&#8221; is a Derrick Sharp photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-27755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494545,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27755\/revisions\/494545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27755"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=27755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}