History events
1354 — (9th of Tevet, 5115) The Jews of Speyer, Germany were given permission to open a school and synagogue
1496 — (19th of Tevet, 5257) King Emanuel orders all Jews to leave Portugal
1902 — 32 Jews held a meeting at the Gendler house, where they decided to invite a special shochet to Harbin and signed the “Agreement on Jewish Emigrants in Harbin.” The agreement became the first document adopted by the Jews of Harbin. Harbin had the largest Jewish community in the Far East. In 1903 it numbered 300 people.
1914 — (7 Tevet 5675) By decision of the Turkish authorities, all newspapers in Hebrew were closed.
1920 — (13 Tevet 5681) Keren Ha-Yesod was officially proclaimed — the main organization collecting donations for Israel, operating in 45 countries and allowing targeted donations to be transferred to various recipients in Israel
1930 — (4th of Tevet, 5691) The Executive of the Jewish Agency announced “that a total of 5,883 Jews entered Palestine during the Jewish Year 5690 (Oct. 1, 1929 to Sept. 30, 1930)
1937 — (20th of Tevet, 5698) The Palestine Post reported that 11 Arabs were killed, scores wounded, and one captured, in a battle fought by a strong police and military force against a large Arab band northeast of Nazareth. An Arab gang attack was repulsed at Kibbutz Alonim. Telephone lines were cut in numerous places throughout the country
1941 — (4 Tevet 5702) Shoah. In the villages of Alchin Ikor, Kalinin, and Molotov (Yevpatoria district, Crimea), 86 Jews were shot. In Kharkov, about 200 Jewish psychiatric patients were shot
1948 — (22th of Kislev, 5709) Egyptian planes attack Nazareth, Haifa and Tel Aviv
1948 — (22 Kislev 5709) War of Independence. Iraqi planes attempted to attack the Israeli Air Force airfield Ramat David, located near Kibbutz Ramat David, in the Jezreel Valley, next to Migdal Ha-Emek. But by mistake they dropped bombs on Kibbutz Migdal Ha-Emek. Three children were killed
1952 — (6 Tevet 5713) David Ben-Gurion headed the 4th government of Israel
1952 — (6th of Tevet, 5713) The Jerusalem Post reported ….. that 80 dunams of land and a house in the Zeita village in the Little Triangle were detached from Israel and handed over to Jordan by the Mixed Israeli-Jordanian Armistice Commission, according to the demarcation armistice lines, agreed upon at the Rhodes armistice negotiations. Arab residents of this area surrendered their Israeli identity cards and became Jordanians
1959 — (23th of Kislev, 5720) At the first post-war Christmas Eve celebrations in 1959, ….. the synagogue and the Cologne memorial for the Victims of the Nazi regime were damaged by two members of the extreme rightist Deutsche Reichspartei, who were later arrested. The synagogue was daubed with black, white and red color paint, and a swastika and the slogan «Juden raus» were added. The desecration of a new synagogue in Cologne, Germany sparked a wave of anti-Jewish incidents throughout Western Europe, the Americas, Australia, and
1969 — (15th of Kislev, 5730) On Christmas Eve, five small boats showing almost no lights slipped out of Cherbourg harbor into the teeth of a Force 9 gale which kept even large freighters from venturing out. Built for the Israel Navy, the vessels had been embargoed at the beginning of the year by French president Charles de Gaulle
1969 — (15 Tevet 5730) War of Attrition. Operation “Tarnegol-53.” In the morning, Israeli Air Force commander General Moti Hod informed Haim Bar-Lev that the Air Force was ready to ensure the delivery of the landing force to the target, and the radar to Israel. (see December 22, December 25, December 26, December 27).
1990 — (7 Tevet 5751) Saddam Hussein threatened to strike Israel if the United States attacked Iraq.
2004 — (12th of Kislev, 5765) The Jerusalem Post reported a major archeological discovery. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that an elaborately paved assembly area and water channel that carried rainwater to the pool of Shiloah (Siloam) during the Second Temple period were uncovered by archeologists digging in Jerusalem’s
2006 — (3 Tevet 5767) The Ministry of Defense approved the creation of a new settlement in the northern Jordan Valley, named Maskiot
2009 — (7th of Tevet, 5770) After months of quiet, a father of seven was shot dead in a drive-by shooting attack near the northern Samaria settlement of Shavei Shomron today.
2012 — (11 Tevet 5773) Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak signed a decision to upgrade the Ariel Academic University Center to the rank of university
2013 — (21th of Kislev, 5774) Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Minister Transportation Yisrael Katz dedicated the first train station to be armored against missile attacks in Israel in the southern city of Sderot
2023 — (12 Tevet 5784) War with Gaza. Day seventy-nine. In the fighting were killed: reserve Major Arieh Rein, 39, Sergeant Roi Elias, 21, Sergeant Orel Bashan, 20, reserve Master Sergeant Nitai Meisels, 30, Sergeant Rani Tamir, 20; one serviceman was seriously wounded. At a government meeting, some ministers expressed disagreement with the sharp reduction in the scale of artillery preparation and air strikes on the eve of the ground offensive, which clearly leads to an increase in the number of casualties among military personnel. The ministers suggested that these decisions by the military cabinet were caused by pressure from the American administration
People
1679 — (2th of Shevat, 5440) Today рortuguese physician, philosopher and writer Isaac Cardoso wrote a letter Rabbi Samuel Aboab giving “his views on the derivation of some Spanish words from persons mentioned in the Bible.”
1821 — (30 Kislev 5582) Born Leon Pinsker — author of “Auto-Emancipation.” Died December 9, 1891.
1837 — (26th of Kislev, 5598) Birthdate of Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov known as the “railroad king” in Russia who was also the co-founder of World ORT
1868 — (10th of Tevet, 5629) Birthdate of Emanuel Lasker, a mathematician who gained fame as a chess player. He was “World Champion” from 1894 through 1921
1903 — Born M. Golodny (Epstein) — poet. Died January 20, 1949.
1904 — Born Veniamin Grigorievich Bogorov — oceanologist and hydrobiologist. Died April 15, 1971.
1918 — (21th of Tevet, 5679) Birthdate of Anwar El Sadat who served as President of Egypt from 1970 until his murder in 1981
1925 — (7th of Tevet, 5686) Birthdate of Yafa Abramov, the native of Giv’at Rambam who gained fame as Yafa Yarkoni an Israeli singer who won the Israel Prize in 1998 for Hebrew song
1936 — Born A. Rivikovich — artist. Died April 8, 2012.
1940 — Born G. Kriss — Olympic fencing champion.
1948 — (22 Kislev 5709) In connection with the accusations of espionage against the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and in the course of the anti-Semitic campaign unleashed by the USSR authorities, V. Zuskin, who headed GOSET after the death of Sh. Mikhoels, and the writer I. Fefer were arrested.
1955 — Born E. Morgulis — musician (“Mashina Vremeni”).
2006 — (3 Tevet 5767) Journalist and writer Uri Dan died at the age of 71