History events
-1393 BCE (7 Adar 1 2368) — Moses was born.
-348 BCE (3 Adar 1 3413) — The construction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem was completed. As recorded in the Book of Ezra: “And they finished the temple on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius” (Ezra 6:15). The rebuilding of the Temple began under the Persian King Cyrus, was interrupted for 18 years, and resumed under King Darius II—the son of Ahasuerus and Queen Esther. The Second Temple stood for 420 years before being destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
1475 (10 Adar 1 5235) — Abraham ben Garton, a printer from Reggio Calabria, published Rashi’s Commentary on the Pentateuch—the first printed Jewish book (alternatively dated to 18 February).
1918 (5 Adar 1 5678) — Pogroms in the Ukrainian shtetls of Serna and Korosten, carried out by troops of the Central Rada of Ukraine
1921 — (9th of Adar-1, 5681) After having been informed by the New York World that “the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which he has been reprinting with anti-Semitic commentary in his own newspaper the Dearborn Independent, are a forgery” Ford said he did not care replying «The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. Indeed they do.»
1938 — (16th of Adar-1, 5698) The Palestine Post reported that there was a major, festive ceremony when the District Commissioner, Mr. Keith Roach, opened Kalia, the first hotel and health resort on the Dead Sea, with the keys handed to him by Major T.C. Tuloch, Chairman of the Kalia Health Resort Company
1942 (30 Shevat 5702) — The Shoah. Several dozen Jews were shot in Berezhany (Ternopil Oblast); 42 Jews were killed in the settlement of Kurman (Crimea)
1947 — (27th Shevat, 5707) “The deportation ship Empire Rival left Haifa this morning carrying 800 would-be Jewish immigrants to Palestine to internment camps in Cyprus which Jews in Palestine staged “a one-hour strike” in protest to this latest deportation
1949 — (18th Shevat, 5709) Chaim Weizmann was sworn in as the first president of Israel
1969 — (29th Shevat, 5729) Golda Meir sworn in as Israel’s 1st female prime minister
1976 (16 Adar 1 5736) — The Second World Conference of Jewish Communities opened in Brussels, with 120 delegates from 32 countries in attendance
1988 — (29th Shevat, 5748) A dozen Israeli playwrights, poets and other intellectuals made an urgent appeal to the Government tonight to «talk peace with the Palestinians»
2024 (8 Adar 1 5784) — Gaza War, Day 134. Fighting with all types of weapons continued across the Gaza Strip. At 10:00 a.m., there was an attempt to shell Ashkelon. Half an hour after the launch, the location of the militant who fired the rocket was identified by soldiers of the Nahal Brigade, and he was eliminated
People
1525 — (24th of Adar-1, 5285) Rabbi Isaac Eizik Margoliot author of Seder Gitten ve-Halizah passed away
1616 (9 Adar 1 5376) — Elijah de Luna Montalto, personal physician to Queen Marie de Medici, died at the age of 49. He was a marrano who openly returned to Judaism
1785 (7 Adar 1 5545) — Rabbi Nachman Krochmal, historian and thinker, one of the leaders of the Enlightenment in Galicia, was born. He died in 1840
1856 — (11th of Adar-1, 5616) Heinrich Heine, German poet, died
1888 — Otto Stern, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (1943), was born. He died on 17 August 1969.
1891 (9 Adar 1 5651) — Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and 1956 Israel Prize laureate in science, was born. He died on 15 October 1965.
1906 — Agniya Barto, children’s poet, was born. She died on 1 April 1981.
1929 — Chaim Potok, American Jewish writer, philosopher, and historian, was born. He died on 23 July 2002.
1935 (14 Adar 1 5695) — Uri Ilan, soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, was born. In December 1954, he and four comrades were captured by Syria. He took his own life on 13 January 1955, leaving a note: “I did not betray.” His body was returned to Israel; the other prisoners were exchanged in 1956 for 41 Syrian captives.
1940 — A. M. Fridman, astrophysicist and creator of the theory of planetary rings, was born. He died on 29 October 2010.
1959 — (9 Adar-1 5719) Aryeh Deri was born — a politician, leader of the Shas party, member of the Knesset, and one of the founders of Maale Amos — an ultra-Orthodox settlement in the Judean Desert, at an altitude of 725 m, 67 km from Tel Aviv and 21 km from Jerusalem. It was established in 1981
1986 (8 Adar 1 5746) — Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers, R. Alsheikh and Y. Fink, were kidnapped in Lebanon