History events
70 — (25th of Nisan, 3830) During the Jewish rebellion against Rome, Roman legions break through Jerusalem’s middle wall, but are driven back by the Jewish defenders
1288 — (20th of Iyar, 5048) First recorded auto da fé held at Troyes
1783 — (22th of Nisan, 5543) Emperor Joseph II granted the request of his Jewish subjects that they be able to continue to wear beards. At the same time he reaffirmed all of the other parts of the “Systematica gentis Judaicae regulation”
1889 — (23 Nisan 5649) Jacob Ber Gimpel received permission from the Galician Governorate to give theatrical performances in Yiddish for three months in a drinking establishment called «Pod Sorokoy» (Under the Magpie), at 13 Zamkova Street in the city of Lviv
1918 — (12th of Iyar, 5678) Рogroms took place in Cracow. In Austro-Hungarian Cracow, the tensions of war have led to a disturbing outbreak of intercommunal tensions. Enraged by food shortages, Polish citizens of the town blame not the war, the authorities or the capitalist class but their Jewish fellow citizens, accusing them of controlling the black market and keeping themselves well fed while everyone else goes hungry.
1920 — (6 Iyar 5680) The conference of the Supreme Council of the Allied countries in San Remo awarded the Mandate for the governance of Palestine to Great Britain, which was to use it to implement the Balfour Declaration.
1921 — (16th of Nisan, 5681) Vladimir Jabotinsky was sentenced by the British mandatory government of Palestine to 15 years of imprisonment for his participation in the Jewish self-defense corps. During Passover in 1920, Jabotinsky stood at the head of the Haganah in Jerusalem against Arab riots and was condemned by the British Mandatory Government to 15 years hard labor. Following the public outcry against the verdict, he received amnesty and was released from Acre prison
1924 — (20 Nisan 5684) The «Hapoel» football club is formed in Haifa
1941 — (27th of Nisan, 5701) The Nazis “closed” the Lublin Ghetto. Jews from Lublin were the first victims of the newly constructed death camp at Belzec
1942 — (7 Iyar 5702) The Holocaust. In Ilyintsy (Vinnytsia Oblast), about 1,000 Jews are shot dead. About 1,000 Jews are relocated from Kosiv and the surrounding area to Kolomyia (some Jews returned to Kosiv in May).
1944 — (1 Iyar 5704) The Holocaust. In the «Majestic» Hotel in Budapest, representatives of the Hungarian Jewish rescue committee, Kastner, and Eichmann met to discuss a deal exchanging the lives of 800,000 Hungarian Jews for 1,000 trucks, 1,000 tons of coffee, and 1,000 tons of soap from the Allies. The deal did not materialize.
1945 — (11 Iyar 5705) Nowy Targ, Poland. The funeral of 5 Jews, killed by local antisemites three days earlier, led to new attacks on the gathered Jews
1945 — (11th of Iyar, 5705) When Soviet troops entered the German capital, they found 800 Jews alive at Berlin’s Jewish Hospital
1946 — (23th of Nisan, 5706) Five thousand Jews attending a funeral for five Jews murdered by Poles at Nowy Targ, Poland, three days earlier were abused from rooftops and windows by anti-Semitic taunts
1948 — (15 Nisan 5708) War of Independence. The first motor transport passes along the new road to the settlements of the northern Negev, bypassing the Arab villages.
1948 — (15 Nisan 5708) War of Independence. The offensive against the Arabs in the Katamon district of Jerusalem. It was part of Operation Yevusi, which was designed to capture key points of the city by the time the British left. These points included the village of Nebi Samuel, overlooking Jerusalem from the north; the Sheikh Jarrah quarter, opening the way to Mount Scopus; and the Katamon area, separating northern and southern Jerusalem. Victory accompanied the PALMACH only in Katamon. The Sheikh Jarrah quarter was captured by Jewish forces only after the British withdrawal.
1949 — (25 Nisan 5709) Tel Aviv and Jaffa are united into one city, named «Tel Aviv-Yafo»
1950 — (7th of Iyar, 5710) King Abdullah of Jordan annexed all of the land west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea seized by his troop. The state of Jordan was formed by the union of Jordanian-occupied Palestine and the Kingdom of Transjordan. In the view of some, the creation of the original state of Trans-Jordan by the British after World War I was an illegal act since amounted to a partition of the Palestine Mandate. That is why there are those that contend that if the Arabs want a state in Palestine, they already have it. It is called Jordan. The creation of Jordan in 1950 was another act of illegality. The land west of the Jordan River including the eastern part of Jerusalem had been seized by the Jordanian Army during the Israeli War for Independence. Since the Arabs held what is now called the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza in 1950, you would have expected that the Arab State of Palestine would have been created. The demand for an Arab state of Palestine in these areas only began after June, 1967. (1950) The government of Israel announced that it would not accept the annexation of eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank by Jordan. Israel said that it had accepted the occupation as part of the truce agreement subject to final peace negotiations
1975 — (13 Iyar 5735) Terrorist attack. Bomb explosion at the Rashi Synagogue in Paris.
1982 — (1 Iyar 5742) Forced eviction of the remaining residents of the Sinai city of Yamit.
2003 — (22 Nisan 5763) Terrorist attack. An Arab blew himself up at the Kfar Saba railway station. Guard A. Kosteniuk, who prevented the Arab from reaching the platform, was killed. 14 people were wounded.
2007 — (6 Iyar 5767) In the Megiddo forest, residents of the north of the country celebrating Independence Day were surrounded by Arabs from the village of Umm al-Fahm, located near Afula. The attackers were on horses, some with flags of the Palestinian Authority. At first they only threatened, then a fight broke out, during which one of the vacationers was injured. Only when border guards arrived were the vacationers able to break out of the encirclement.
2008 — (19 Nisan 5768) A Russian Zenit-3 launch vehicle carrying the Israeli Amos-3 communications satellite successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. On board were 250 kilograms of equipment.
2009 — (30 Nisan 5769) More than 9,000 running enthusiasts took part in a marathon through the streets of Tel Aviv. The marathon returned to Tel Aviv after a 15-year hiatus; the competition was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the city.
2010 — (10 Iyar 5770) In the morning, police officers from the Dan district fulfilled the dream of a 4-year-old boy suffering from a terminal illness in its final stage. At 8 a.m., a special task force consisting of a patrol car and several traffic police motorcycles was waiting for the boy near his home in Kiryat Ono. When he came out, he was put in a police van («voronok») and, to the sound of sirens, taken to school, just as he had wished
2011 — (20th of Nisan, 5771) A group of 15 Jewish worshipers were hit by gunfire from Palestinian security forces as they Joseph’s Tomb
2025 — (26 Nisan 5785) UAV operators are declared military personnel of combat units.
2025 — (26 Nisan 5785) Three new fifth-generation F-35i «Adir» fighter-bombers arrived in Israel. This brought the number of F-35i aircraft in the army’s arsenal to 45
People
1439 — (30th of Nisan, 5199) Rabbi, Kabbalist and poet Avigdor Ben Isaac Kara passed away today
1788 — (17th of Nisan, 5548) In Frankfurt am Main, Guttle and Mayer Amschel Rothschild gave birth to “»Carl Mayer von Rothschild the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples.»
1823 — (13 Iyar 5583) Eliyahu Benamozegh is born — an Italian rabbi, one of the most educated Jews in Italy, who served as the rabbi of the community of Livorno for more than fifty years. One of the city squares is named after him. Died February 6, 1900.
1889 — Gleb Alekseevich Baklavsky is born — one of the founders of the Israeli navy. Died June 16, 1942.
1899 — Oscar Zariski is born — a mathematician. Died in 1986.
1902 — M. Ziffer is born in Ukraine — an Israeli sculptor. Died April 9, 1989.
1914 — (28 Nisan 5674) Jan Karski is born in Lodz — a Righteous Among the Nations, as early as 1942 he tried to convey the truth about the genocide of Jews in Europe to the international community. Died July 13, 2000.
1924 — (20 Nisan 5684) The famous Israeli pianist and composer Yeshua Lakner is born in Bratislava. Died December 5, 2003.
1942 — Barbra Joan Streisand is born — American singer and actress
1943 — (19th of Nissan 5703): Rabbi Menachem Ziemba a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi who had been born in 1883, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy was gunned down by the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
2025 — (26 Nisan 5785) The Gaza War. Day five hundred and sixty-six. 26-year-old reserve Sergeant First Class Asaf Kafri, from Beit Hashmonai, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip. In the same incident, two soldiers were seriously wounded