History events
1420 — (18 Tevet 5181) Pope Martin V heeded the appeals of the Jews of Italy and issued a bull according to which Jewish children under 12 years of age must not be subjected to forced baptism
1791 — (27th of Kislev, 5552) Catherine II created the Pale of Settlement
1907 — (18 Tevet 5668) Avraham (Yair) Stern was born — commander of Lehi. He died on February 12, 1942. In his honor, in Samaria in 1999, the settlement of Havat Yair («Yair’s Farm») was created. It was repeatedly destroyed by the Israeli authorities. Only in 2021 did it acquire official status. In June 2022, the settlement was connected to the electricity grid.
1909 — (11 Tevet 5670) Hamburg. Opening of the fifth congress of Russian Zionists in the presence of 120 delegates, numerous guests, and representatives of the press. The congress was opened by B. Goldberg. Lev Yaffe read his introductory speech on behalf of the Central Committee, in which he declared that after the defeat of the revolution, reaction had taken possession of all spheres of life, and the existence of Jews in Russia, already difficult, had become even more unbearable because of intensified persecutions and restrictions. The defeat of the liberation movement affected the Jewish population in the cruelest manner. Instead of noisy public struggle, a dead silence settled among the Jewry of Russia. From the arena of Jewish life, as if blown away by the wind, vanished all the countless parties and small groups that only recently had tried to outshout one another in their claims to lead Jewry. The general decline did not bypass the Zionist movement either, although recently among Jewish youth and the Jewish intelligentsia there had appeared signs of attempts at self-analysis, a gravitation toward Jewishness, and an interest in national problems. The coup of the «Young Turks» led to some revival in the Zionist movement, but soon disappointment emerged in the exaggerated hopes placed on this coup.
1920 — (12 Tevet 5681) The «British-French Agreement on Borders,» by which the borders of Eretz Yisrael were determined «from Dan to Beersheba,» that is, the land on both banks of the Jordan, the one that Jews occupied during the period of the First Temple. However, the Northern Galilee (Southern Lebanon) was transferred into the borders of France’s mandate over Lebanon.
1923 — (15 Tevet 5684) The Beitar youth movement was founded.
1937 — Battle of a platoon (6 people) of a Haganah field company with an Arab gang in the Aronim — Kiryat Amal area. The Arabs retreated; they were pursued.
1939 — (19 Tevet 5698) In Harbin, the third congress of Jews of the Far East opened, lasting 3 days
1941 — (3 Tevet 5702) Shoah. Executions of Jews in Bogdanovka continued. In Kolomyia (Ivano-Frankivsk region), about 1,200 Jews who held Hungarian, German, and Austrian passports were shot.
1943 — (26th of Kislev, 5704) Нolocaust. The Jewish community at Pinsk, Poland, is liquidated
1948 — (21th of Kislev, 5709) War for independence. Israel attacks Egyptian troops near Gaza, Nirim, Rafah, and Khan Yunis
1952 — (5nd of Tevet, 5713) The Jerusalem Post reported that David Ben-Gurion introduced a new Mapai-General Zionists-Progressive government coalition to the Knesset. Hapoel Hamizrahi was still considering an option whether to join the coalition. During a heated debate, Ben-Gurion complained that the absurd fragmentation of political factions was the root of all Israeli parliamentary troubles
1968 — (2 Tevet 5729) Television broadcasting began in Israel. Regular television broadcasts took place three times a week.
1969 — (14nd of Tevet, 5730) Paratroopers airlifted an entire Soviet radar station out of Egypt and transported it back to Israel
1991 — (16 Tevet 5752) Restoration of diplomatic relations between Israel and the USSR. USSR Ambassador Bovin presented his credentials to President Herzog
1993 — (9th of Tevet, 5754) Two Israeli men were killed in the West Bank by Palestinian gunmen today in a drive-by shooting; Anatoly Kolisnikov, an Ashdod resident employed as a relief watchman at a construction site there, was stabbed to death by terrorists while on duty
2005 — (22 Kislev 5766) Bad weather in Israel. In the north, thunderstorms with hail; on Mount Hermon, the first snowstorm of this winter.
2011 — (27 Kislev 5772) In Dimona — one of Israel’s population centers most remote from traditional cultural centers — the festive opening of the city theater took place.
2016 — (23 Kislev 5777) The UN Security Council voted for an anti-Israeli resolution. The resolution condemned all Israeli settlement activity «beyond the Green Line,» that is, construction in Judea and Samaria (in the text of the draft resolution, «the West Bank of the Jordan River») and in the disputed territories in Jerusalem (in the text of the resolution, «East Jerusalem»), called on all countries of the world to distinguish between the territory of Israel within the borders as of July 4, 1967, and the «occupied territories,» and also categorically denied the possibility of recognizing any changes in these territories carried out after that date. The authors of the resolution classified as «occupied territories» not only Arab but also many Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem located beyond the so-called «Green Line» (among these neighborhoods are Gilo, Har Homa, Ramot, Pisgat Ze’ev, Talpiot, and others). All UN Security Council members voted «for» the resolution. The United States abstained but did not use its veto right
People
1771 — Shalom Ben Yakov Koen was born — a Jewish poet of the Haskalah era. He died on February 21, 1845
1866 — (15nd of Tevet, 5627) Birthdate of Boris Schatz, the native of Lithuania who founded the Bezalel School in Jerusalem
1886 — A. Ehrenstein was born — an Austrian poet. A native of a poor family of Hungarian Jews, he studied history and philosophy and worked as a journalist in Berlin. In the 1920s he traveled a great deal; after the Nazis came to power, he emigrated to Switzerland, and from there to New York, where he died on April 8, 1950, in a shelter after a serious illness, forgotten by everyone
1888 — (19nd of Tevet, 5649) Laurence Oliphant, a British author diplomat and proto-Zionist passed away. ….. Born in 1829, following a number of twists and turns, by 1879, Oliphant began working on a project to help Jews settle in Palestine. He raised money, vainly sought to obtain a lease on a portion of Palestine from authorities in the Ottoman capital and helped to settle one group of Jews in the Galilee. He hired Naftali Herz Imber, the author of Hatikvah, as his secretary
1892 — (4nd of Tevet, 5653) Paulus (Selig) Cassel, Jewish scholar and convert to Christianity, died
1914 — (6 Tevet 5675) Faina Markovna Kvyatkovskaya (née Feiga Ioffe) was born — a Polish and Soviet composer, author of the foxtrot «U samovara ya i moya Masha» («At the Samovar Are My Masha and I»). She died on July 9, 1991.
2023 — (11 Tevet 5784) War with Gaza. Day seventy-eight. Fighting in Gaza, in the North, anti-terrorist operations against Arabs in the areas of Jenin, Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah. In Gaza were killed: Sergeant First Class Nir Raphael Kananian, 20; Sergeant First Class Birhanu Kassi, 22; Master Sergeant (reserves) Shai Termin, 26; Warrant Officer (reserves) Alexander Shpits, 41; Captain Oshri Moshe Butzchak, 22; 19-year-old Sergeant David Bogdanovsky; 20-year-old Sergeant Orel Bashan; 20-year-old Sergeant Gal Gershko; 21-year-old Sergeant Itamar Shemen; 30-year-old Master Sergeant (res.) Nadav Issachar Farhi from Herzliya; 28-year-old Master Sergeant (res.) Eliyahu Meir Ohana; 23-year-old Master Sergeant (res.) Elisaf Shoshan; 23-year-old Master Sergeant (res.) Ohad Ashur; five soldiers of the reconnaissance company of the «Givati» brigade were seriously wounded; a reservist was wounded in the north of Israel.
2024 — (22 Kislev 5785) War in Gaza. Day four hundred forty-four. Lieutenant Ilay Atedgi, 22, Sergeant First Class (reserves) Hillel Diner, 21, and Sergeant Netanel Pesach, 21, were killed