Editing Joshua (section)

==Jewish holidays==
[[File:Yom HaAliyah Poster.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Israeli poster celebrating Yom HaAliyah (Aliyah Day) from the Yosef Matisyahu Collection]]

===Religious holiday===
The annual commemoration of Joshua's [[Yartzeit|yahrtzeit]] (the anniversary of his death) is marked on the 26th of [[Nisan]] on the [[Hebrew calendar]]. Thousands make the pilgrimage to the [[Tomb of Joshua]] at Kifl Haris near [[Nablus]], [[West Bank]], on the preceding night.

===Israeli Zionist holiday===
[[Yom HaAliyah]] ([[Aliyah]] Day; {{langx|he|יום העלייה}}) is an Israeli national holiday celebrated annually on the tenth of the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] month of [[Nisan]], as per the opening clause of the Yom HaAliyah Law, as a [[Zionist]] celebration of "Jewish immigration to the [[Land of Israel]] as the basis for the existence of the [[State of Israel]]", and secondarily "to mark the date of entry into the Land of Israel", i.e. to commemorate Joshua having led the Israelites across the Jordan River into the Land of Israel while carrying the [[Ark of the Covenant]].