History events
-1393 — (7 Adar 2368 BCE) After six months of pregnancy, Yocheved gave birth to her son Moses
654 — (25th Adar-1, 4414) “In Toledo Spain, Receswinth, King of the Visigoths, forced Judaizing Christians (converted Jews who still kept Jewish traditions) to swear loyalty to the Church or die” which meant “they were forced to spend Jewish and Christian holy days with the clergy, but were not forced to eat pork.”
1475 — (11 Adar-1 5235) Abraham ben Garton ben Isaac from Reggio di Calabria published a commentary by Rashi on the Pentateuch. This is the earliest surviving Jewish book with complete publication details in its colophon. The first books did not have title pages; only at the end of the text (in the so-called colophons) was there sometimes incomplete information about the printer, his assistants, the place of printing, and the date of completion, and occasionally the name of the individual who financed the publication
1488 — (6th Adar, 5248) The first printed eviction of tractate Gittin of the Babylonian Talmud was published in Soncino, Italy
1577 — (1th Adar-1, 5337) The Jews of Safed requested assistance from the Sultan to protect them from persecution by local officials. In a letter to the local Ottoman officials, the Sultan told his people that the Jews, «have complained of wrong done to them.» The Jews were forced to pay high taxes, transport dung on Saturdays, were levies tolls on the road to Damascus, and were beaten with a strip of metal. The Sultan ordered his people not to molest the Jews, to investigate and give back what the Jews are owed
1705 — (5th Adar, 5465) Congregation of the Holy Office declares forcible baptism of Jewish children by Christian nurses effective
1723 — (24th Adar-1, 5483) In Prussia a revised form of the «Aeltesten-reglement» (Constitution of the Jewish Community) was issued. The original document which was supposed to be read every in the synagogue was issued in March of 1722
1757 — (28 Shevat 5517) In Avignon, a local resident stumbled and fell into a well near the synagogue while passing through the ghetto at night. Fortunately, he was unharmed. This day was declared a holiday in the community because if the townsman had drowned, the Jews would have been accused of complicity in his death.
1788 — (10 Adar-1 5548) The Emperor of Austria issued a decree calling upon Jews for military service
1840 — (14th Adar-1, 5600) Sultan Abdul Mejid I issued a royal decree absolving the Jewish community on the island of Rhodes of charges “of having killed a gentile child” so that his blood could be used in baking matzoth. The day was celebrated as The Purim of Rhodes.
1856 — (12th Adar-1, 5616) Full civil rights are granted to Turkish Jews under the terms of the “Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.”
1897 — (16th Adar-1, 5657) In Paris, French author Emil Zola was attacked by a mob on his way home from the court where his case was being heard. The police were forced to intervene to prevent a lynching. The frustrated mob then “made a rush for the Jews threatening to throw them into the Seine.”
1897 — (16 Adar-1 5657) A pogrom occurred in the town of Shpola in the Kyiv province. It lasted two days, during which Jewish shops and apartments were ransacked
1912 — (30th Shevat, 5672) “Kadima Hebrew School” was dedicated today in Baltimore, MD.
1929 — (8 Adar-1 5689) Repatriates from Eastern Europe established Netanya, initially as an agricultural settlement
1942 — (1 Adar-1 5702) The Holocaust. The «Jewish operation» in the Odessa region concluded: over three days, 1,404 Jews were captured and executed in Khashevat, Ulyanovka, Holovanevsk, and Olshanka. In Bernadovka and Malaya Aleksandrovka (Berezovsky district of Odessa region), respectively, 483 and 400 Jews from Odessa were shot
1943 — (13th Adar-1, 5703) A group of 1,230 repatriates from Poland arrived in the Land of Israel — 370 adults and 860 children, of whom 719 were orphans. The Jews reached Eretz-Israel from Iran, having traveled there from the USSR, thanks to an agreement between the Soviet and Polish governments, which arranged for 24,000 Polish citizens caught in the aftermath of Poland’s partition to be transported to Iran, with some joining the ranks of Anders’ Polish army
1943 — (13 Adar-1 5703) The official proclamation of the establishment of the ghetto in Shanghai. Fifteen thousand Jewish refugees were relocated to the slum area of Hongkew. They faced employment restrictions, and some of their property was confiscated. They were primarily supported by the Social Jewish Council of the Ashkenazi Association for Assistance and Jewish communities from other cities in China. The ghetto was disbanded on September 3, 1945
1946 — (17th Adar-1, 5706) A clandestine radio transmitter known as the “Voice of Free Israel” that is reportedly operated by the Stern Gang was seized in Tel Aviv after “a house-to-house search by British Soldiers and police officers.”
1953 — (3th Adar, 5713) The Jerusalem Post reported that in London the House of Commons backed the British government’s decision to continue selling jet fighters to Arab nations to the exclusion of Israel
1957 — (17 Adar-1 5717) A terrorist attack. Two individuals were killed by mines planted by Arabs near Nir Itzhak (on the southern border of the Gaza Strip)
1969 — (30th Shevat, 5729) The El Al flight was attacked at Zurich airport by three terrorists. One pilot was killed, and the passengers and other crew members were saved by a security officer of the airline, M. Rachamim. He killed one assailant and injured another. Swiss authorities arrested Rachamim on charges of murder and illegal possession of weapons. The first charge was later dropped, while he spent about a month in prison on the second charge
1980 — (1 Adar-1 5740) The Israeli embassy was opened in Cairo
1981 — (14th Adar-1, 5741) Israel’s 60,000 teachers, who earn an average of $110 a week, staged a one-day strike today to press for a wage increase promised by the Government
2016 — (9 Adar-1 5776) A terrorist attack. In the «Rami Levy» supermarket in the Sha’ar Binyamin industrial zone, two Israelis were injured by Arabs. One of the wounded, 21-year-old IDF sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, later succumbed to his injuries.
2021 — (6 Adar-1 5781) On February 17 and 18, hundreds of tons of petroleum products were washed ashore by a storm along the coastline from Rosh HaNikra in the north to Ashkelon and Zikim in the south. The total length of the pollution stretch was about 160–170 km. As a result of the contamination of the water and coastal strip, many marine animals perished.
2024 — (9 Adar-1 5784) The war with Gaza. Day one hundred thirty-five. Although only five of the twenty-four brigades initially deployed at the beginning of the war remain in the sector, fighting continues throughout the territory of Gaza. Artillery, the navy, and the air force are striking at Hamas’s infrastructure
People
1839 — (4 Adar-1 5599) Tsadok Kahn was born — the Chief Rabbi of Paris (1869–1890) and of France (from 1890). He fought against anti-Semitism in France and Algeria, actively sought to revise the Dreyfus affair. He died on December 8, 1905
1859(O.S) — (14th Adar-1, 5619) In Russia, Menachem-Nukhem Rabinovich, a “rich merchant” who lost it all and his wife Chaye-Esther gave birth to Solomon Rabinowitz who became famous under the penname of Sholem Aleichem
1921 — Composer O. Feltzman was born. He passed away on February 3, 2013.
1927 — (16 Adar-1 5687) In Neve Tzedek, the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of Jaffa, which later became part of Tel Aviv, Mike Harari — a famous Mossad agent — was born. He died on September 21, 2014.
1988 — (30 Shevat 5748) Professor I. Nevada — a writer, historian of Zionism, the State of Israel, and the national movement — passed away at the age of 73.
2024 — (9 Adar-1 5784) The war with Gaza. Day one hundred thirty-five. In the fight in the southern sector, Senior Sergeant Simon Shlomov, 20, from Kiryat Bialik, was killed