History events
73 — (17th of Tammuz, 3833) Pogrom in Cyrenaica (Egypt)
1236 — (6th of Av, 4996) In Anjou, France, “crusading monks trampled three thousand Jews to death and destroyed the community.” (The History of the Jewish People)
1910 — (3rd of Tammuz, 5670) A circular of the Ministry of National Education of Russia deprived graduates of Jewish secondary schools and colleges of the right to enroll in state higher education institutions.
1921 — (4th of Tammuz, 5681) Civil War. Pogrom in the town of Glubokovichi, Bobruisk district; Pogrom in the town of Kopatkevichi (Gomel region)
1932 — (6th of Tammuz, 5692) The foundation stone of the Oscar Straus School was laid at Nathanyah. The event was attended by several many Jewish and Arab notables. The project is being sponsored by the Naotaiah Colonization Agency (Palestine Settlers Service of NYC.)
1936 — (20th of Tammuz, 5696) The Palestine Post reported that Joseph Katz, 16, was killed and four quarry workers seriously injured when their bus was ambushed on a side road off the Castel bends on the Jerusalem-Jaffa Road. Senior Arab public servants submitted a memorandum to the high commissioner recommending a total stoppage of Jewish immigration. Four dunams of fruit-bearing trees were destroyed near Hadera.
1938 — (11th of Tammuz, 5698) Arab attack on the settlement of Givat Ada. This was one of the most dramatic and bloody periods of the Arab Revolt, when Arab gangs, pursued by British troops, moved their operations from the Galilee and began attacking remote settlements in the center of the country, sowing fear among the residents and forcing the field companies of the Haganah to become active in defense
1941 — (15th of Tammuz, 5701) Shoah. In Zolochiv, the security police shot 300 Jews, mostly intellectuals. The murder of Jews began in Khotyn (Chernivtsi region). During a pogrom in the village of Nowe Miasto (Dobromyl district, Lviv region), 39 Jews were killed. Apparently on the same day, 39 Jews were killed in Rudky (Lviv region) and 40 Jews in Vyshnivets (Ternopil region)
1941 — (15th of Tammuz, 5701) Shoah. 1,500 Jews — residents of the town of Jedwabne in Poland — were burned alive in a barn.
1941 — (15th of Tammuz, 5701) Holocaust. ….. At Vilna 1,600 Jews are tortured then driven into a barn and burned alive; The Jewish residents of the Polish town of Jedwabne are accosted by their Polish neighbors and by peasants from outlying areas, and are marched to the central market. In a day-long ordeal, the Jews are tortured and subsequently herded into a barn, which is set ablaze with kerosene. The massacre is not carried out by the Germans, who maintain only a token presence in Jedwabne on this day
1948 — (3rd of Tammuz, 5708) War of Independence. ….. During Operation Dekel, the 7th Armored Brigade, a battalion from the Carmeli Brigade along with some elements from the Golani Brigade captured Kuwaykat, Jiddin and Khirbat; With the end of the truce, a company of sixteen and seventeen year old boys under the command of twenty-one year Oded Chai set out to take the high ground west of Jerusalem. Chai, who was a veteran of the Jewish Brigade died almost as soon as the attack had begun, the victim of a sniper’s bullet. The new commander, Elaihu Lichtenstein rallied the troops with a new battle cry, “For Oded” and reached the summit of the hill. That hill is now known as Mount Herzel; Israeli forces attacked a bridgehead that the Syrians had established on the west bank of the Jordan River. The Syrians had seized the bridgehead during what was supposed to be the Four Week Cease Fire. The Syrian air force dominated the sky above the battlefield. The Syrian artillery outraged the Israeli guns. Despite ten days of see-saw fighting, the bridgehead would remain in Syrian hands; An Egyptian Spitfire (yes the same Spitfires that had won the Battle of Britain) dropped a number of bombs on the Jewish sector of Jerusalem killing three children; Two attempts by the Arab Legion to break into the New City (Jerusalem) were thwarted
1951 — (6th of Tammuz, 5711) The Jerusalem Post reported that ….. the government had decided to subsidize the import of hides in order to keep shoe prices at their present level; that the Ministry of Labor investigating the cause of the Castel quarry disaster in which seven workers lost their lives resolved to issue strict regulations on the handling of explosives and to impose severe penalties to discourage workers from violating specific instructions; that electricity consumption restrictions were eased throughout the country; that one thousand newcomers arrived from Romania
1969 — (24th of Tammuz, 5729) One Israeli soldier was killed and seven were wounded” today as Israel fought an artillery duel across the Suez Canal with Egypt while responding to Arab attacks “in the Jordan Valley” and “on the Golan Heights; The body of the lone Israeli captured by Egyptian commandos when they raided an Israeli tank depot on June 9, 1969 is found
1981 — (8th of Tammuz, 5741) PLO units that had occupied southern Lebanon turning into “a state with a state” unleashed a massive rocket attack on northern Israel
2000 — (7th of Tammuz, 5760) Israel. A car rally began in support of the settlements in Judea, Samaria, and the Golan Heights.
2001 — (19th of Tammuz, 5761) The President of Poland, A. Kwaśniewski, apologized to the Jews for crimes committed against them by Poles 60 years earlier.
2011 — (8th of Tammuz, 5771) The Israeli government approved a program to clean up the Kishon River in the Haifa area, which for decades had been polluted by industrial waste from factories located in Haifa’s industrial zone; The government approved the border of Israel’s economic zone in the Mediterranean Sea. The border defines the area where Israel has the right to conduct scientific research, extract minerals, engage in fishing, and carry out other economic operations. The zone borders Cyprus and Lebanon to the north.
2017 — (16th of Tammuz, 5777) Israel switched to eight-digit vehicle license plates. They were only given to new vehicles. All others kept their seven-digit plates. Before 1961, all vehicles in the country were assigned three-digit, four-digit, and five-digit license plates. After 1961, six-digit numbers began to be issued. Since 1980, Israel switched to seven-digit plates, with the last two digits indicating the vehicle’s year of manufacture.
2025 — (14th of Tammuz, 5785) Terrorist attack near the «Rami Levy» supermarket at the Gush Etzion junction. Two Arabs armed with knives killed the store’s security guard, opened fire towards the store, but were eliminated by armed individuals present at the scene, including security personnel. The attackers were residents of the village of Halhul, located near the site of the attack
People
1830 — (19th of Tammuz, 5590) Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was born, destined to become the «father of Impressionism.» He died on November 13, 1903.
1835 — (13th of Tammuz, 5595) H. Wieniawski was born — composer, violinist. He died on April 12, 1880.
1871 — Marcel Proust was born — writer. He died on November 18, 1922.
1905 — L. Kassil was born — writer. He died on June 21, 1970.
1910 — S. Bellow was born — American writer. He died on April 5, 2005.
1915 — (28th of Tammuz, 5675) Birthdate of Saul Bellow
1922 — (14th of Tammuz, 5682) Shoah. Stella Goldschlag was born — a Jewish collaborator who worked with the Gestapo, helping to identify Jews hiding from deportation to concentration camps (initially she did this to save her relatives from Auschwitz, but continued collaborating even after they were killed). Her guilt in the deaths of at least 600 Jews was proven. She committed suicide in 1994
1938 — (11th of Tammuz, 5698) Alexander Zaid, who was born at Zima in 1886 and was “one of the founders of Bar Giora and Hashomer passed away today
1957 — (11th of Tammuz, 5717) Sholem Asch, a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language passed away
1962 — (8th of Tammuz, 5722) Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon ….. passed away. Born in 1875 in what was then a part of the Russian Empire, he was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in 1902. He would later help develop the movement in the U.S. during WW I after he had been expelled from Palestine by the Turks. He returned to Palestine in 1919 where he worked to develop the Jewish home during the inter-war years. The highpoint of his career may have come when he helped draft Israel’s Declaration of Independence, a document of which he was a signatory
2001 — (19th of Tammuz, 5761) Two Palestinian terrorists shot 45 year old Yosef Twito near Moshav Ahisemekh
2002 — (1st of Av, 5762) Captain H. Levi of the Israel Defense Forces was killed in Gaza.
2024 — (4th of Tammuz, 5784) War with Gaza. Day two hundred and seventy-eight. Staff Sergeant Tal Lahat, 21 years old, was killed.
2025 — (14th of Tammuz, 5785) War with Gaza. Day six hundred and forty-three. Captain Rei Biran, 21 years old, was killed.