History events
321 — (4 Tevet 4082) The first official mention of the Jews of the German city of Cologne. This day is dated by a decree of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, by which the Jews of Cologne were imposed with additional taxes
1808 — (22th of Kislev, 5569) Napoleon issues decree dividing the whole French empire into Jewish consistories
1861 — (8 Tevet 5682) By an opinion of the State Council of Russia, Jewish merchants of the first and second guilds (later only the first guild) were permitted permanent residence in Kyiv, but only in the Lybedskaya and Ploskaya parts; in other parts of the city they were allowed temporary stay only with the permission of the chief local authorities.
1882 — (1 Tevet 5643) A fire in Kingston destroyed the Spanish and Portuguese, as well as the Ashkenazi, synagogues and many buildings in the capital of Jamaica
1917 — (26th of Kislev, 5678) Corporal Louis Isaac Salek, a Gallipoli veteran from New Zealand, ….. flew the first Jewish flag ever to fly over Jerusalem since the city’s fall to the Romans 2000+ years ago.” The flag was made by an Egyptian-Jewish department store owner named Moreno Cicurel with the assistance of a tailor from Alexandria named Eliezer Slutzkin. Unlike Israel’s present flag, Salek’s version was blue and white, the top half blue, the bottom half white with a Magen David in the center, but within the triangles there were rounded edges. Salek planted Moreno’s flag “atop the Tower of David — the Citadel — where it flew for 20 minutes before being removed by the British who had just conquered Palestine from the Turks
1931 — (1 Tevet 5692) The newspaper Davar published the results of the census of the population of Palestine conducted by the authorities of the British Mandate: “759,952 residents of Palestine are Muslims, 175,006 are Jews, 90,607 are Christians, and 9,589 are representatives of other faiths…; the results of the 1921 census. At that time the country had 83,794 Jews, 590,890 Muslims, 73,024 Christians, and 5,474 others — a total of 757,182 people.”
1939 — (12 Kislev 5693) Nahum Komarov founded the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth (“Latest News”).
1939 — (29 Kislev 5700) Shoah. In fascist-occupied Poland, Jews were restricted in their ability to move by transport and to use places in it
1941 — (21th of Kislev, 5702) A Jewish ghetto is established at Lutsk, Ukraine; Over the next two days, more than 14,000 Jews are murdered by Einsatzkommandos in Simferopol, Ukraine.
1941 — (21 Kislev 5702) Shoah. At the 10th kilometer of the Simferopol–Feodosia highway, 15,000 Jews of Simferopol were shot.
1942 — (3 Tevet 5703) Shoah. The operation in Rava-Ruska was completed. During the operation, about 5,000 Jews were deported to Belzec in four trains, and about 3,000 sick Jews were shot on the spot; several hundred Jews were left in work teams
1947 — (28th of Kislev, 5708) Ten Jews were killed when their convoy, carrying food and water to the Etzion Bloc settlements, was ambushed just south of Bethlehem; In a six hour battle, Haganah troops fought off a major Arab attack on the Old City of Jerusalem, home to 2,500 Jews
1952 — (23th of Kislev, 5713) The Jerusalem Post reported after ….. the festive Knesset inauguration ceremony, President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi signed pardons for 25 prisoners, all of whom had nearly completed their sentences; that 184 new students had been admitted to the new Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School. The majority were Israelis who had previously studied medicine abroad and graduates of Israeli secondary schools; that the Post’s Toy Fund started the distribution of Hanukkah toys and sweets at over 100 ma’abarot and new-immigrant centers throughout the country
1955 — (26th of Kislev, 5716) Operation Olive Leaves ….. which was designed to put an end to Syrian shelling attacks on Israelis in around the Sea of Galilee began this evening with an artillery barrage “elements of the 890th Paratroop Battalion, augmented by units of Aharon Davidi’s 771 Reserve Paratroop Battalion as well as units from the Nahal and Givati Brigades commenced” “a complex two-pronged attack” “on Syrian emplacements along Kinneret’s northeastern shoreline”
1961 — (4 Tevet 5722) Israel. Demonstrations by religious residents demanding that the government adopt a Sabbath law
1974 — (27th of Kislev, 5735) In Tel Aviv, one person was murdered and 66 others were injured when a terrorist set off a bomb in movie theatre
1978 — (11 Kislev 5739) Terror attack. Explosion near the Israeli embassy in San Salvador
1988 — (3th of Tevet, 5749) «On the Red Sea, Israel’s Answer to Key West”….. — The New York Times published today reports that Eilat is to Israel what Key West is to the United States — a hot, lazy, bohemian and (to be honest) tawdry little resort town at the nation’s southern tip, physically and emotionally far removed from the commotion to the north. Eilat has no Arab community and no significant religious population, facts the city’s boosters like to point out. »This is a resort area; the religious, they like to stay in the center of the country,’ Mayor Avi Hochman says. That removes any possibility for the two greatest sources of tension here — Arab versus Jew, religious versus secular. »We’re tolerant here,’ said Rina Maor, head of the state tourism office. »If people want to go to the synagogue, it’s O.K., if people want to go topless it’s O.K.» Most female visitors seem to choose the latter option”
1994 — (8 Tevet 5755) Opening of the Israeli embassy in Amman, the capital of Jordan.
1995 — (18 Kislev 5756) According to the Oslo agreements, the IDF left Bethlehem.
2001 — (26 Kislev 5762) Terror attack in Jerusalem. 11 killed.
2001 — (26 Kislev 5762) A Jewish cultural center opened in Moscow.
2006 — (20 Kislev 5767) A conference opened in Iran on the so-called “impartial” study of the Holocaust and consideration of the question of whether the Nazis really killed Jews in gas chambers. The initiator of the conference was Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who considers the Shoah a “myth.” “Our task is not to confirm or refute the existence of the Holocaust. We want to give an opportunity to present their opinion to thinkers who cannot do so in Europe,” said Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, opening the conference. The guests of the conference, seated even in the presidium, were six delegates from Neturei Karta — a Jewish ultra-Orthodox movement that is simultaneously anti-Zionist and anti-Israeli. Representatives of Neturei Karta arrived in Iran from Australia and the United States
2007 — (2th of Tevet, 5768) The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution proposed by Israel. The UN passage of an Israeli resolution on agriculture is the first time a nonpolitical Israeli resolution has been adopted by the international body
2010 — (4 Tevet 5771) A storm accompanied by heavy rain and strong gusts of wind in Israel. During the day, wind strength reached 100 km per hour, and wave height in the Mediterranean Sea reached 10 m.
2013 — (8 Tevet 5774) A snowstorm in Israel. It lasted 4 days. Snow, wind. The temperature dropped below normal. Many settlements and districts remained without electricity.
2023 — (28 Kislev 5784) War with Gaza. Day sixty-six. From wounds received on November 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip, reserve Sergeant Major Zvika Lavi (30 years old) died. Three servicemen were seriously wounded. Shelling of settlements adjacent to the Strip continued, as did the war in the North with Hezbollah.
2024 — (10 Kislev 5785) Terror attack on Highway 60; an Arab shot at a passenger bus. Four people were wounded, of whom two — a 12-year-old child and a 40-year-old woman — received gunshot wounds. Later the boy Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia Simcha died in the hospital.
2025 — (21 Kislev 5786) The Political-Security Cabinet approved the establishment and regularization of the status of 19 settlements in Judea and Samaria. List of approved settlements: Esh Kodesh, Alenbi, Givat-Arel, Ganim, Har-Bezek, Yaar El Keren, Yatsiv, Yatev Maarav, Kadim, Kokhav a-Shahar Tsafon, Kida, Mishol, Nahal Doron, Pnei Kedem, Reihanit, Rosh a-Ain Mizrah, Shalom, Tamun. On December 21, 2025, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in accordance with his powers as minister in the Ministry of Defense, published an official declaration on the legalization of 19 outposts and new settlements in Judea and Samaria
People
1751 — Born Christian Wilhelm von Dohm — German historian, writer, and diplomat. He became known as the author of a project for the civil equality of Jews. Died May 29, 1820.
1868 — (27 Kislev 5629) Born Akiva Aryeh Weiss — watchmaker, one of the initiators of the construction of Tel Aviv. Died May 23, 1947.
1875 — (13 Kislev 5636) Born Yehuda Leib Maimon Hacohen — rabbi, Israeli journalist and politician, one of the founders of the Mizrahi movement. Died July 10, 1962.
1879 — Born Gertrude Weil — American public figure, fighter for the rights of women and workers. Died May 3, 1971
1882 — (1th of Tevet, 5643) In Bresalu, Gretchen Kauffmann and Gustav Jacob Born gave birth to Max Born, pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics