History events
-1273 — (6 Adar 2488 BCE) God said to Moses: «Behold, the days of your death have approached. Call Joshua and bring him to the Tent of Meeting, and I will give him commandments.» Moses appointed Joshua in the Tent before the High Priest Eleazar and before all the people, and, laying his hands upon his head, he instructed him with the words that God had inspired him to say
1147 — (9th of Adar 4907) The Jews of Wurzburg were attacked without warning by a band of Crusaders. “More than twenty among them met a martyrs death including Rabbi Isaac ben Eliakim…The humane Bishop of Wurzburg assigned a burial place in his own private garden for the bodies of the martyrs and sent the survivors to a castle near Wurzburg.”
1349 — (22th of Adar-1 5109) Jews of Uberlingen, Switzerland were massacred
1491 — (1th of Adar 5251) Isaac ben Judah ibn Katorzi produced the first printed copy of at Naples the Sefer ha-Shorashim a lexicon by Rabbi David Kimhi, known as RADAK
1632 — (29th of Shevat 5392) Nicolas Antoine, “a French Protestant theologian and pastor who attempted to convert to Judaism, although he was never officially admitted to Judaism, due to fears by the Jewish community that persecutions would happen if it became known that he was an apostate of Christianity” “was placed in an asylum for the insane” in an attempt by his fellow Christians to get him to recant his declarations that he was a Jew
1795 — (22th of Shevat 5555) Societät Felix Libertate founded at Amsterdam
1903 — (14 Shevat 5663) The Zionist Commission led by Leopold Kessler and including Selig Soskin, Dr. Hillel Yaffe, and Colonel Albert Goldsmid began its tour of the area around El Arish
1910 — (2th of Adar-1 5670) The Turkish Council of State approves statutes, which will allow a Jewish bank to be opened in Salonica
1931 — (24th Shevat 5691) The “first legally constituted Jewish National Assembly” continued to meet for a second day at the Nathan Straus Health Centre in Jerusalem
1934 — (26th Shevat 5694) Today, Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels “declared that the elimination of Jews from the production of films was essential in order to clear the way for talented young Germans.”
1937 — (30th Shevat 5697) “Anti-Semitic rioting broke out anew in Warsaw and Vilna Universities today, causing numerous casualties among Jewish students.”
1941 — (14th Shevat 5701) A pitched-street battle took placed between the NSB, a pro-Nazi Dutch movement and Jewish self-defense groups on the Waterloopein, a square in the center of Amsterdam
1942 — (24 Shevat 5702) The Shoah. Another Jewish transport departed from Odessa. On the same day, 350 Jews from Odessa were executed in the village of Worms (Vinogradne)
1950 — (24 Shevat 5710) The last of 378 airlifts of Operation «Magic Carpet» took place, during which 50,000 Jews were transported from Yemen to Israel
1953 — (26th Shevat 5713) The Soviet Union broke diplomatic relations with Israel
1958 — (21st of Shevat, 5718) Terrorists killed a resident of moshav Yanov who was on his way to Kfar Yona, in the Sharon area
1961 — (25th Shevat 5721) The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem
1971 — (16 Shevat 5731) An unsuccessful attempt by UN representative Yaring to initiate negotiations between Israel and Egypt took place. He proposed for Israel to withdraw its troops to the borders of June 4, 1967, in exchange for Egypt allowing Israeli ships to use the Suez Canal for navigation.
1979 — (14 Shevat 5739) The so-called «Islamic Revolution» triumphed in Iran
2001 — (18 Shvat 5761) Terrorist attack. A resident of the kibbutz Rosh Tzurim was shot dead while returning in his car from Jerusalem. The religious kibbutz Rosh Tzurim was founded in 1969. It is located in the Hebron Mountains, at an altitude of about 940 meters, 9 km southwest of Bethlehem, 55 km from Tel Aviv, and 15–20 km from Jerusalem. It belongs to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc
2007 — (23 Shevat 5767) At 21:18, the first night launch of the Israeli anti-missile «Hetz» was carried out.
2012 — (18 Shevat 5772) «Hamas will never recognize Israel. The Palestinian people will continue to resist the occupiers until their land is fully liberated,» said Ismail Haniya, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, during a speech in Tehran.
2024 — (2 Adar-1 5784) War with Gaza. Day one hundred twenty-eight. The main battles were fought in the southern part of the enclave, on the coastal side of Khan Younis and in the center of the sector
People
1689 — (21st of Shevat) Rabbi Moses ben Galante of Jerusalem, author of Zevah ha-Shelamim passed away today
1712 — (15 Adar-1 5472) Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kaidanover passed away at the age of 66; he was the author of the ethical work «Kav HaYashar» («The Straight Line»).
1864 — (4 Adar-1 5624) Israel Zangwill, an English writer and Zionist, was born in London. He achieved great success with his novels «Children of the Ghetto,» about the lives of Jews in London, and «Dreamers of the Ghetto,» which are semi-fictional, semi-historical biographies of prominent Jews (Uriel Acosta, Spinoza, Heine, Lassalle, Disraeli, and others). He died on August 1, 1926.
1869 — Elsa Lasker-Schüler, a poet, was born in Wuppertal (Germany). She died on January 22, 1945, in Jerusalem.
1897 — Emil Leon Post, an American mathematician, philosopher, logician, professor, and a specialist in computer science, was born. He was one of the founders of many-valued logic. He died on April 21, 1954.
1909 — (20 Shevat 5669) Max Baer (born Maximilian Adalbert Baer), a world heavyweight boxing champion, was born into a German Jewish family. He died on November 21, 1959.
1909 — D. Mankiewicz, an American screenwriter, director, and producer, was born. He died on February 5, 1993.
1937 — (30 Shevat 5697) Rabbi Eliezer Waldman was born in Petah Tikva; he was a Knesset member, head of the «Nir Kiryat Arba» yeshiva, and one of the founders of the Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron. He died on December 19, 2025.
1942 — (24th of Shevat, 5702) Flight Lieutenant Michael Weizmann of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, the 25-year-old son of Chaim Weizmann, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay. His body was never found
1986 — (2 Adar-1 5746) N. Sharansky, released from a Soviet prison, arrived in Israel. He had been accused by the Soviet authorities of espionage for the USA, although he was merely seeking permission to emigrate to Israel, and spent 10 years in prison before being exchanged for Soviet KGB agents arrested in America.
2000 — (5 Adar-1 5760) An Israel Defense Forces soldier, T. Itach, was killed in southern Lebanon by a missile fired by Hezbollah