OK, LJ brain trust, a question on Jewish liturgy

[rhu]

I have heard that some people say an "Al hanissim" on Yom Haatzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim. I am curious about the texts that are used, where those texts originated, and how widespread the custom is becoming. I've done a Google search (but I don't know whether what I've found is just one person's invention or a wider community's minhag) and I've seen the text in Siddur Sim Shalom (but I don't know the provenance of that text).

Thoughts? Can you pass this on to your various networks?

Comments

[cellio]

I've never heard of that (not that I'm an expert). I'll ask the rabbi at the (Conservative) morning minyan tomorrow what he knows about it.

[cellio]

I asked about the practice this morning and he said something equivalent to "oh yes" -- this was clearly familiar and normal to him, not something he'd just seen in one or two places. He didn't know the source of the text in Sim Shalom off hand.