Today, millions of Copts are celebrating Palm Sunday. This tradition owes its origins with the entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, carrying palm leaves and flowers. Copts go to the streets on this day, carrying palm leaves and flowers and children go to the streets, playing in joy.

This day is the seventh and last Sunday of the big feast. It is followed by Easter. The week that begins with this day is called Holy Week. The day is also known as Palm Sunday, because the people of Jerusalem welcomed Jesus with palm and olive leaves that covered their clothes and the trees. Because of that, most churches are decorated with palm leaves now.

This year, there is a change; palm leaves are being exported to Israel. Some days ago, the Administrative Prosecution transferred five quarantined agricultural engineers at the CairoAirport to the Criminal Court under allegation of facilitating the export of 14 tons of palm leaves to Israel. Furthermore, the Ministry of Agriculture hid the involvement of an import export company in the biggest case of smuggling palm leaves to Jordan, thus facilitating their export to Israel.