History events
70 — (17 Tammuz 3830) The Jewish War. Titus ordered the soldiers to destroy the Antonia Fortress to open a convenient road for the army. On the same day, the offering known as the Tamid was suspended in the Temple
1349 — (27th of Tammuz, 5109) Today all the Jews living in Frankfurt were murdered and their houses burnt
1454 — (18 Tammuz 5214) On the island of Crete, after a two-year trial, nine Jews accused of desecrating the Host were acquitted by a Venetian court.
1555 — (25 Tammuz 5315) Pope Paul IV issued the bull Cum nimis absurdum. It revoked all rights of the Jewish community, imposed religious and economic restrictions on Jews in the Papal States, and established the Roman ghetto, which was only abolished in 1888.
1741 — (1 Av 5501) Rabbi Chaim ben Moshe Ibn Attar, a prominent Torah commentator, departed from Livorno to Eretz Israel with a group of students and their families. He was to organize a yeshiva in Jerusalem for young men from Italian communities, financed by wealthy Jews from Livorno. The yeshiva was established a year later
1870 — (15th of Tammuz, 5630) United Synagogue of London established by Act of Parliament
1921 — (8 Tammuz 5681) A group of 23 Zionists arrived in the Land of Israel from America, including Golda Meir, her husband, sister, and two children.
1932 — (10 Tammuz 5692) Kibbutz Givat Haim was founded.
1941 — (19 Tammuz 5701) The Holocaust. About 400 Jews were killed in Chortkiv (Ternopil region), 197 Jews in the village of Banilov Ruski (Chernivtsi region), and 31 Jews in the village of Tereshpol (Vinnytsia region). Likely on the same day, 28 Jews from the intelligentsia were shot in Busk (Lviv region)
1944 — (23rd of Tammuz, 5704) Hungarian Jews held at the Reval, Estonia, slave-labor camp are shot in a nearby forest.
1948 — (7th of Tammuz, 5708) War of Independence. ….. During Operation Dekiel, the Irgun occupied the Arab village of Malha after a fierce battle. Several hours later, the Arabs launched a counterattack, but Israeli reinforcements arrived, and the village was retaken at a cost of 17 dead;
After failing to capture the northern Negev town of Negba, the Egyptians attacked the settlement of Gal-On. Gal-On was 15 miles east of Negba and another impediment to the Egyptian advance towards Tel Aviv. The defenders beat off the Egyptian attackers forcing them to seek another route to the Jewish metropolis; The Israelis launched their third attack on the Arab fortress of Latrun. Latrun was held by the crack Arab Legion and blocked the normal road to Jerusalem. The Arabs, who had modern armored vehicles, beat off the attacking Israelis who had not anti-tank weapons; As part of “Operation Dekel,” an offensive designed to take the city of Nazareth, Israeli forces move southeast from the coast and take the town of Shefaram; Forces of the Arab Liberation Army which had been staying in the village began their retreat from Ein Kerem; Israeli planes bombed the airport at Cairo
1953 — (2 Av 5713) The underground power station «Riding Gimel» in the Tel Aviv area was commissioned. It was built secretly to provide energy to the country’s center in the event of war or a crisis.
1954 — (13 Tammuz 5714) The Knesset heard the conclusions of the commission regarding the problem of permanent emigration from the country.
1966 — (26 Tammuz 5726) Two people were killed and four injured as a result of terrorist attacks carried out by Arabs in the town of Kfar Yuval in northern Israel.
1977 — (28 Tammuz 5737) A large demonstration of residents of Bnei Brak protesting against the movement of traffic on Shabbat.
2012 — (24 Tammuz 5772) A new schedule was implemented, including express trains from Be’er Sheva to Tel Aviv (travel time 57 minutes). There was a stop at the Kiryat Gat station
2017 — (20th of Tammuz, 5777) An infant girl was among three people injured in a firebomb attack in Jerusalem today hours after two Israeli police were killed in an attack by three Israeli-Arab terrorists on the Temple Mount
2024 — (8 Tammuz 5784) The Knesset Health Committee approved new regulations allowing the sale of over-the-counter medications for severe pain, heartburn, and ointments for treating wounds in any store, not just in pharmacies
2024 — (8 Tammuz 5784) A terrorist attack occurred near the Nir Tzvi intersection, located near the «Tzrifin» military base in the vicinity of Ramle. An Arab vehicle hit people and crashed into a bus stop. Four soldiers were injured. On July 24, one of them, Captain Ariel Topaz, 24, died in the hospital
People
1391 — (12 Av 5151) The wealthiest Jew in Valencia, S. Abravalla, was forced to convert to Christianity during the persecutions. Over time, he returned to Judaism and even met with the Pope in Rome as a representative of the Spanish Jews
1663 — (9th of Tammuz, 5423): According to Leopold Zunz, Nathan ben Moses Hannover the Jewish historian and Talmudist best known for writing Yeven Mezulah that described the Khmelnytsky Uprising in which an unprecedented number of Jews were murdered, passed away today
1785 — (7 Av 5545) Mordechai Manuel Noah, an American politician, journalist, and Zionist, was born. He attempted to organize an autonomous Jewish territory called «Ararat» within the state of New York (1825). After this failed, he appealed to the Christian world for help in organizing autonomy in Palestine. He died on May 22, 1851.
1805 — (17 Tammuz 5565) Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz, a public figure, one of the founders of Hasidism, chief rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, and Torah commentator, died.
1882 — (27 Tammuz 5642) Abraham-Zvi Idelson, a composer and researcher of Jewish music, was born. He died in 1938
1890 — (26th of Tammuz, 5650) Birthdate of Russian born sculptor Ossip Zadkine
1904 — (2 Av 5654) Isaac Bashevis Singer, a writer, was born. He died on July 24, 1991.
1938 — (15 Tammuz 5698) Moshe Safdie, an architect, was born
2001 — (23rd of Tammuz, 5761) Twenty eight year old David Cohen of Betar Illit “died today of injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting on July 12
2017 — (20 Tammuz 5777) A terrorist attack occurred on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Staff Sergeant Khayil Satawi (30), a resident of the Druze village of Mjarr, and Staff Sergeant Kamil Shanan (22) from the Druze village of Khorpish were killed, and another MAGAV patrol unit fighter was injured.
2025 — (18 Tammuz 5785) War with Gaza. Day six hundred forty-seven. The fighters Senior Sergeant Shoham Menachem, 21, Sergeant Shlomo Yakir Shrem, 20, and Sergeant Yuli Faktor, 19, were killed. In the same incident, an officer was severely wounded