History events
-1313 BCE (1 Sivan 2448) Seven weeks after the Exodus from Egypt, the Jewish people arrived at Mount Sinai, where they prepared for five days to receive the Torah.
1821 — (25 Nisan 5581) On the first day of Orthodox Easter, the Patriarch of Constantinople, accused by the authorities of complicity in the uprising, was hanged in the Greek quarter of Istanbul at the gates of the cathedral. Present at the execution, Grand Vizier Ali Pasha Benderli, noticing several Jews in the crowd, mockingly said to them, “Welcome, Jews! Here before you is the hanged enemy, ours and yours! I command you to throw him into the sea!” Mortally frightened, Mutal, Bishatchi, and Levi dared not disobey the grand vizier’s order and dragged the patriarch’s corpse to the waterfront. Because they agreed to do this, the Greeks subsequently destroyed several Jewish communities, causing about 5,000 casualties
1881 — (28 Nisan 5641) Pogroms in the town of Ananiev in the Kherson province and in Konotop (which lasted for 3 days, during which one Jew was killed), where Jews attempted to organize self-defense
1912 — (10 Iyar 5672) The charter of the Gomel Society of Jewish Children’s Colonies was approved.
1919 — (27 Nisan 5679) Civil War. Pogroms. The city of Tsibulev, Lipovetsky district.
1919 — (27 Nisan 5679) At a conference in Paris, Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow presented proposals to the «Commission of Ten» for transforming Eretz Israel into a Jewish state with broad borders.
1928 — (7 Iyar 5688) Edmund Isaac Baez, the last remaining Jewish male on the island of Barbados, sold the synagogue building to a local lawyer for 500 pounds sterling, which he transferred to the London synagogue Bevis Marks. The decline of the Barbados community began with the hurricane of 1831, which caused extensive destruction on the island, including the synagogue. In the 1930s, about 30 Jewish families from Eastern Europe found refuge in Barbados.
1940 — (19 Nisan 5700) The fifth football match of the Israeli national team (then — Palestine). The opponent was the national team of Lebanon. The football players made their way to the «Maccabi» stadium in Tel Aviv. Over 10,000 spectators came to watch the game, filling the wooden benches and standing areas in the stands. Among the fans were many British soldiers, some of whom «occupied» all the roofs of the buildings adjacent to the stadium. Around the field were dozens of flagpoles with the flags of Eretz Israel and Lebanon, fluttering in the warm wind blowing from the sea. The score was 5:1.
1942 — (10 Iyar 5702) Shoah. Jews in Belgium were ordered to wear distinguishing marks – yellow stars.
1942 — (10 Iyar 5702) Shoah. In Berdichev (Zhytomyr region), about 70 Jews from mixed marriages were executed.
1943 — (22 Nisan 5703) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A unit of the Polish Home Army, commanded by Major Henryk Iwanski, arrived through a tunnel to assist the Jews. The unit joined forces with the Jewish self-defense and fought against the fascists. The Jews were offered to leave the ghetto and move to the «Aryan» side. (This was the essence of the entire AK operation.) However, the commander of the resistance, David Appelbaum, refused to leave the ghetto, as communication was absent with many groups of his fighters located elsewhere, and he considered it impossible to leave them behind. Only 34 people exited, carrying a large number of wounded, accompanied by many Jews who did not participate in the fighting. The Poles covered their retreat for several hours, suffering heavy losses. (Major Iwanski was wounded, his son Roman and brother Eduard were killed.) But the Germans also suffered heavy losses (over a hundred men and one tank).
1948 — (18 Nisan 5708) War of Independence. Haganah stormed Jaffa; the Arab Legion crossed the Jordan River and found itself on its western bank; the beginning of battles for the police station near Kibbutz Gesher in Lower Galilee.
1948 — (18th of Nisan, 5708) During the Israeli War for Independence, the British landed a tank battalion and an artillery regiment at Jaffa. Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Minister, informed the British commanders that they must prevent the capture of Jaffa by the Jews ‘at all costs’.” The British artillery shelled Haganah units and British aircraft attacked Jewish settlements in the area; The Arab Legion crossed the Jordan River on the “road bridge” near the town of Gesher, a Jewish settlement. It was the most effective fighting force in the Middle East. The Jordanians crossed the river with intention of seizing a police fort and the town of Gesher. The Jewish settlers were told evacuate within an hour and to turn the fort over to the Arab Legion. The Jews refused to leave and the Legion attacked. So confident were they of success that the heir to the Jordanian throne had come to watch what was sure to be a victorious battle. However, when the smoke cleared, the Jews had held on and the Legion retreated back from whence they had come.
1949 — (28 Nisan 5709) The government decided to embark on a campaign to reduce consumption after Ben-Gurion refused to limit immigration, with 210,000 people arriving in the country since January.
1949 — (28 Nisan 5709) The Lausanne Conference opened to resolve Israeli-Arab disagreements.
1950 — (10 Iyar 5710) The government of Lebanon allowed Jews wishing to repatriate to Israel to cross the border for the first time
1950 — (10th of Iyar, 5710) The modern state of Israel was officially recognized by the British government
1952 — (2th of Iyar, 5712) The Jerusalem Post reported that Jerusalem suffered a severe shortage of water because the Jerusalem Electric Corporation had withdrawn power from the water pumping stations until the municipality settles a debt of IL60,000
1955 — (5 Iyar 5715) At the Independence Day parade, the army showcased Uzi submachine guns for the first time, which had been added to its arsenal.
1959 — (19 Nisan 5719) Terrorist attack. Two travelers were shot at close range near Masada.
1961 — (11 Iyar 5721) Israel. The first general census of the population. Result: 2,170,000 people.
1984 — (25 Nisan 5744) Members of the underground combat organization of the Gush Emunim movement were arrested by Israeli authorities and sentenced to various prison terms (three received life sentences) for attacking students at the Islamic University in Hebron on July 26, 1983.
1993 — (6 Iyar 5753) The ninth round of negotiations began in Madrid for Middle Eastern peace settlement, during which the Israeli delegation allowed the Palestinian delegation to be headed by a member of the PLO. Faisal Husseini from Jerusalem became that leader
1996 — (8th of Iyar, 5756) The IDF operation «Grapes of Wrath» against the Hezbollah group concluded. The operation was prompted by mass shelling of Israeli territory with unguided rockets, which intensified from late 1995 to early April 1996. From March 4 to April 10, 7 Israelis were killed and 22 wounded (of which 16 were servicemen). After the shelling of the city of Kiryat Shmona, Israel began artillery shelling and air strikes on Hezbollah targets in the Bekaa Valley and Beirut area. The declared aim of the operation was to pressure the Lebanese government to take measures to curb Hezbollah’s activities. In turn, militants of this organization began an intense rocket bombardment of northern Israel. On April 14, a Hezbollah representative stated: «We are launching dozens of rockets at Zionist settlements… and will turn northern Israel into hell.»
2002— (15th of Iyar, 5762) Danielle Shefi, 5; Arik Becker, 22; Katrina (Katya) Greenberg, 45; and Ya’acov Katz, 51, all of Adora, were killed when terrorists dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement’s defensive perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. Seven other people were injured, one seriously. The terrorists entered several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms. Both Hamas and the PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack
2007 — (9 Iyar 5767) An Israeli archaeological expedition discovered Herod’s tomb in Herodium.
2008 — (22 Nisan 5768) A ceremony for the commissioning of the longest runway in the Middle East – 3.9 km – was held at the Negev air force base in Nevatim.
2009 — (3 Iyar 5769) The Central Bureau of Statistics published data on the population of Israel. It amounted to 7,411,000 people. 5,593,000 residents are Jews (75.5%), 1,493,000 citizens are Arabs (20.2%). The remaining 320,000 people.
2020 — (3 Iyar 5780) Before the celebration of the 72nd anniversary of the declaration of independence of the State of Israel, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the population of the country is approximately 9,190,000 people. 74% of Israel’s residents (6,806,000) are Jews, 21% (1,930,000) are Arabs. The rest are non-Arab Christians, representatives of other religions, and people without religious identification
People
1293 — (19th of Iyar, 5053) Meïr of Rothenburg died
1821 — (25th of Nisan, 5581) Hungarian historian and poet Solomon Löwisohn passed away today
1859 — (23rd of Nisan, 5619) Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, English financier and the first Jewish baronet passed away
1865 — Nathan Mendelevich (after baptism – Vladimir Hermanovich) Bogoraz was born – a writer, poet, ethnographer, linguist, who participated in the creation of Chukchi writing, and the compilation of dictionaries and grammar of the Chukchi language. He died on May 10, 1936.
1910 — (18 Nisan 5670) Ruth Aliav-Kluger was born in Kyiv – the only woman in the organization Mossad Aliyah Bet, which dealt with smuggling illegal immigrants from Europe to Eretz Israel before World War II, and performed intelligence functions in Egypt during the war, serving in Mossad until the second half of the 1950s. She passed away on February 19, 1980.
1912 — Eleonora Yakovlevna Halperina was born – a translator who introduced the works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to the Soviet reader. She died on July 23, 1991.
1913 — (20 Nisan 5673) In Atlanta, Georgia, Jew Leo Frank was found guilty of murdering Mary Phagan and sentenced to death.
1931 — Igor Oistrakh was born – a violinist. He died on August 14, 2021.
1931 — (10 Iyar 5691) Ida Nudel was born – a human rights activist. She died on September 14, 2021.
1933 — L. Roshal was born – a pediatric surgeon, participant in the liberation of various hostages, and the elimination of disasters and calamities