Prime Minister Naftali Bennett decided today that the traditional nationalist flag march marking the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem will take place on Sunday according to the route decided upon earlier this week. Bennett made his decision following consultations this morning with Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev and Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai.

Bar Lev and Shabtai briefed Bennett on the security preparations ahead of the controversial march, which had instigated in past years clashes in Jerusalem between Israeli security forces and local Palestinians; clashes between Israeli security forces and Jewish far-right militants; and also clashes in other mixed Jewish-Arab cities. Last year, Hamas fired rockets at Israel shortly after the procession started, instigating an 11-day war in the Gaza Strip.

The Jerusalem Day procession traditionally passes through the narrow streets of the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, in what Palestinians perceive as provocation. Over the years, legal efforts to ban the march failed. Israel’s right-wing camp, including Bennett himself, have always argued that it was a legitimate celebration marking an extraordinary moment in Jewish and Israeli history.

Thus, according to Bennett’s decision today, the march is set to pass through Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter in the Old City, ending at the Western Wall Plaza, stopping before reaching the Temple Mount compound.