History events
1349 — (11th of Iyar, 5109) The Jewish community at Radolszell, Germany, was exterminated
1492 — (3th of Iyar, 5252) Decree ordering Jews to leave Spain publicly announced
1899 — (20th of Iyar, 5659) At Nicoleaieff, Russia a town of 100,000 that includes 30,000 Jews, approx
imately 5,000 rioters “wrecked hundreds of Jewish houses and shops
1902 — (23th of Nisan, 5662) Herzl completes his Palestine Novel Altneuland (Old New Land) which portrays his vision for life in the new Jewish Homeland
1904 — (15th of Iyar, 5664) At Bender, Bessarabia, on Shabbat, «while the greater part of the Jewish community was assembled in the synagogue a mob of ruffians attacked the Jewish quarter killing three men and two women and wounding several other persons. A number of Jewish shops were plundered and the windows of Jewish houses were broken. The mob which was incited to violence by the cry that the Jews and England and America brought on the the Russo-Japanese war in revenge for the Kishinev massacre, was too numerous to be dispersed by the police force and it was not until a company of Cossacks had been called out and ordered to used fire arms that the riot was quelled
1922 — (2 Iyar 5682) An underground meeting of Zionists in Russia was held in Moscow. It was organized by the Central Zionist Bureau, which was staffed by three members: Professor Belkovsky, S. Goldberg, and Dr. Bykhovsky. In March 1924, they were arrested, but their exile was replaced with deportation from Russia to Palestine for life
1925 — (6th of Iyar, 5685) The Revisionist party (Brith HaTzionim HaRevisionistim) was founded by Zev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky.in Paris, France
1929 — (20th of Nisan, 5689) In Tel Aviv, the fourth Palestine and Near East Exhibition comes to a close
1936 — (8th of Iyar, 5696) The Flying Camel spreads its wings on the shores of the Mediterranean as the emblem of the Levant Fair opening today in Tel Aviv; Despite Arab violence in Palestine, the High Commissioner opened the Levant Fair at Tel Aviv today where “more than 5,000” people heard “Mayor Dizengoff stress the importance of this biennial exhibition in the development of trade in the Near and Middle East with Western manufacturers.”
1940 — (22th of Nisan, 5700) Shoah. The gates of the Lodz ghetto were locked. On an area of 4 square kilometers, 164,000 Jews from Lodz were placed, soon joined by 20,000 Jews and five thousand Roma from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Luxembourg
1942 — (13th of Iyar, 5702) Today the Germans ordered the Jews of Pinsk to move into the ghetto by 4:00 p.m. on May 1. More than 20,000 persons were packed into the ghetto, a cramped area in a slum quarter;
Twelve hundred Jews were killed in Diatlovo, Belorussia. The Jews offered armed resistance, but it was futile; The ghetto in Pinsk (Belarus) was established
1943 — (25th of Nisan, 5703) IThe German government established Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp for Jews. The camp was located in northwest Germany. Approximately 40,000 perished there from a variety of forms of inhumane treatment. Anne Frank died there in March, 1945, a month before the camp was liberated by the allies
1943 — (25 Nisan 5703) Shoah. The so-called Bermuda Conference in Hamilton (Bermuda Islands) concluded, focusing on issues concerning Jewish refugees liberated by Allied forces and those who remained under Nazi control. However, the conference was not initially held to save Jews, but to calm public opinion in the USA and the UK, which was outraged by the mass killings of Jews by the Nazis. The conference was organized so that reporters could not attend; representatives of Jewish organizations were also barred. As a result, the USA did not increase its immigration quotas for Jewish refugees, and the British White Paper of 1939, which restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, was not rescinded. In protest against the conference’s outcomes, Shmuel Ziegelboim, a member of the Jewish advisory body of the Polish government in exile, committed suicide.
1945 — (17 Iyar 5705) Seven Jews were killed near Nowy Targ, Poland
1946 — (29th of Nisan, 5706) Seven Jews were murdered by anti-Semitic Poles at Nowy Targ, Poland, very near to where five Jews were killed on April 21
1948 — (21 Nisan 5708) War of Independence. Fighters of the Irgun captured the railway station during the battle for Jaffa, prompting the English, who had not yet withdrawn all their troops from Palestine, to intervene. They began bombarding Irgun positions and its headquarters in Neve Shalom and landed troops from ships. Eventually, they positioned their soldiers between Arab and Jewish forces
1948 — (21th of Nisan, 5708) I“The battle for Jerusalem began today as the Haganah swooped into the Christian Arab Katamon quarter and infiltrated deep into the Moslem Mamilla cemetery, and Jewish postal employes seized the general post office.
1950 — (13th of Iyar, 5710) IA compromise was reached today among competing factions of the trade union movement in Israel that will allow tomorrow’s May Day celebrations to go on as planned. Histadrut had threatened to cancel the festivities unless the “pro-Soviet minority” agreed to march without banners carrying proclamations that would be offensive to “the western democracies.
1952 — (5 Iyar 5712) A letter from Minister of State Security S. Ignatiev to Stalin: “I am providing you with a copy of the indictment in the case of Jewish nationalists, American spies Lozovsky, Fefer, and others. I report that the investigation has been sent to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR with a proposal to sentence Lozovsky, Fefer, and all their accomplices, except for Stern, to execution. Stern is to be exiled to a remote area for ten years.” Thus, the guilty verdict in the case of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was issued before the trial, which was held in closed session from May 8 to July 18, 1952
1953 — (15th of Iyar, 5713) IThe Jerusalem Post reported that a gang of Bedouin terrorists mined a bridge on the Nitzana-Beersheba road and opened fire when an army truck was passing by. Nobody was hurt, but the bridge was damaged
1956 — (19 Iyar 5716) The norm for chocolate distribution under the rationing system was increased from 8 to 12 bars per child per year at a fixed price of 105 prutot. However, at the same time, import tax rates on coffee beans to Israel were raised by 1000%, leading to a 40-50% increase in chocolate prices on the free market.
1963 — (6 Iyar 5723) The University of Haifa was established.
1969 — (12 Iyar 5729) War of Attrition. An Israeli paratrooper raid into Egypt targeted strategic sites.
1979 — (3 Iyar 5739) For the first time since the establishment of Israel, its vessel passed through the Suez Canal.
2001 — (7 Iyar 5761) Israel. Due to a hot, sandy wind, the landscape turned an unnatural orange color. In the evening, a thunderstorm broke out, which is unusual for this time of year
2003 — (28th of Nisan, 5763): Ran Baron, 24; Dominque Caroline Hass, 29 and Yanai Weiss, 46 were murdered and dozens more wounded including Keith Trowbridge, 37 and Avi Tabib, the security guard, when a terrorist working for Fatah Tanzim and Hamas blew himself up at Mike’s Place a popular Tel Aviv Restaurant. The murderer was part of a group of three British Muslims who came to Israel to kill Jews
2007 — (12 Iyar 5767) Israel. A sudden, unannounced strike by railway workers occurred. As a result, many passengers who had already embarked were forced to leave the trains and find alternative transportation. Many were caught between stations when they heard about the strike. Initially, people expected that service would resume in a few minutes, but then realized this would not happen and they would have to walk on the tracks to the nearest station. The sudden strike was caused by a conflict between the traffic control department and the administration.
2007 — (12 Iyar 5767) A preliminary report from the state commission headed by Judge Winograd investigating the circumstances of the Second Lebanon War was published. Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz, and Chief of Staff Halutz were named as the main culprits for its failure.
2012 — (8 Iyar 5772) The IDF began constructing a barrier near Metula on the border with Lebanon. The wall is over a kilometer long and several meters high. The purpose of the structure is to prevent direct fire at Metula from the Lebanese village of Kila
2015 — (11th of Iyar, 5775) “An Israeli-led rescue team pulled a Nepalese woman out of the rubble in the capital Kathmandu today, five days after a massive earthquake leveled much of the city, killing some 6,000 people.”
2018 — (15 Iyar 5778) The Knesset approved a law granting the narrow military-political cabinet the authority to declare war or approve a large military operation. The law formalized the de facto situation that had developed in recent years, where decisions about military actions were made by a narrow cabinet rather than the entire government, as required by the previous law.
2018 — (15 Iyar 5778) The IDF launched missile strikes on Iranian military bases, warehouses, and positions north of Homs, in the Syrian province of Hama, near Aleppo. Iranian air defense systems with missiles capable of reaching distances of up to 110 km were destroyed. Dozens of military personnel, including Iranian specialists, were killed.
2024 — (22 Nisan 5784) The Israel Defense Forces published statistical data on the results of the draft in March-April 2024 for combat units: the motivation of the draftees is extremely high, and there were no shortfalls in any unit.
2025 — (2 Iyar 5785) Fires in the forests north of Beit Shemesh (Judean Hills). Evacuations were conducted for citizens from several settlements. Canada Park was burned down. The cause of the fires was deliberate arson by Arabs. The temperature in Jerusalem reached 33 degrees during the day, in Tel Aviv — 35, in Haifa — 34, in Beersheba — 37, and in Eilat — 34. It was hottest in the Jordan Valley — above 40 degrees
People
1693 — (24th of Nisan, 5453) Rabbi David Ha-Kohen of Jerusalem, author of “Da’at Kadoshim” passed away
1901 — Simon Kuznets was born — an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1971. He died on July 8, 1985.
1943 — (25 Nisan 5703) Nehemia Cohen was born — one of the three officers of the Israel Defense Forces with the largest set of awards — a medal for distinction and four service ribbons. He was killed on the first day of the Six-Day War, June 5, 1967, during a battle in Gaza
1947 — (10th of Iyar, 5707) “Itzhak Zuckerman, deputy commander of Warsaw’s ghetto arrived in Palestine” today to settle permanently at the village of Yagour “where his wife Zivia Lubotkin, another leader of the Polish ghetto rising is a member
1985 — (9 Iyar 5745) Gal Gadot was born — a film actress