History events
-1273 — (1 Av 2488) — At the age of 123, Aaron, the elder brother of Moses and the first High Priest of Israel, died.
67 — (1 Tammuz 3827) — The Jewish War. The fall of Yodfat.
70 — (5 Tammuz 3830) — The Jewish War. A 10-hour battle in Jerusalem for the Antonia Fortress
1490 — (13th of Tammuz, 5250) A Chumash with commentary by the Ramban was published for the first time
1490 — (13 Tammuz 5250) — In Naples, a commentary on the Pentateuch was published by the printer Isaac ben Judah ibn Qatorzo
1826 — (27th of Sivan, 5586) Official date on which the Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society, the oldest such organization in New York, was formed today
1871 — (13th of Tammuz, 5631) Anglo-Jewish Association founded
1901 — (15th of Tammuz, 5661) Jacob Saphirstein begins printing The Jewish Morning Journal the first Yiddish daily morning newspaper established in New York.
1923 — (18th of Tammuz, 5683) The first coupons to fall due on the bonds issued by the municipality of Tel Aviv “are paid at the offices of the Guaranty Trust Company.” Although the bonds were issued in pounds, they will be redeemed in dollars for the convenience of the American bondholders. Meyer Dizengoff, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, is present for the redemption ceremony
1926 — (20 Tammuz 5686) — South of Ness Ziona, the settlement of Kfar Aaron was founded, named in honor of the botanist and agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn
1927 — (2 Tammuz 5687) — An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the city of Nablus (biblical Shechem). Nearly 300 people died, 1,000 were injured, and many historical buildings were destroyed
1927 — (2th of Tammuz, 5687) The Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem is partially destroyed as an earthquake
1936 — (12th of Tammuz, 5696) The Palestine Post reported that аrab «tree-killers» cut down about 40 old, fruit-bearing olive trees in Zichron Ya’acov
1941 — (7th of Tammuz, 5701) A mobile killing squad, Einsatzgruppe C’s Einsatzkommando 4a, assisted by an infantry platoon, massacred 1,160 Jews at Łuck
1941 — (7 Tammuz 5701) — Shoah. Three days after the fascists entered Daugavpils, the local nationalists who controlled the situation in the city received instructions on what to do with the Jews. The first Jewish men were gathered in the square, held there the entire day, then placed in prison; some were taken to the forest and shot
1941 — (7 Tammuz 5701) — Shoah. A pogrom in Boryslav (Lviv region), during which 191 Jews were killed. A pogrom in Stryi — about 300 Jews were killed. During the pogrom in Kamianka-Strumylova — several hundred people (all localities in the Lviv region). During the pogrom in Zbarazh (Ternopil region), 16 Jews were killed and 50 houses were burned. In Lutsk (Volyn region), Sonderkommando 4a shot 1,160 Jews. On the same day, the security police and the army began mass executions of Jews in Lviv.
1942 — (17th of Tammuz, 5702) The New York Times reported on the «slaughter of 700,000 Jews» in German-occupied Poland
1944 — (11th of Tammuz, 5704) Allied bombers executed the heaviest bombings inflicted on Hungary during the war which led Hungarian radio to accuse Jews of guiding the bombers to their targets with radio transmissions and light signals
1950 — (17 Tammuz 5710) — According to statistics, 13,000 tourists had already visited Israel, nearly twice as many as during the same six months of the previous year
1951 — (28th of Sivan, 5711) The Jerusalem Post reported that the first issue of Omer, the vowelized daily newspaper for new immigrants in simple Hebrew, had appeared on newsstands. It included a glossary in Spanish, French, Arabic and Yiddish
1967 — (24 Sivan 5727) — The Israeli government allowed Arabs — residents of Judea and Samaria — who had left their homes during the Six-Day War to return.
1969 — (16th of Tammuz, 5729) As hostilities heated up along the Suez, Israeli paratroops conducted their second deep penetration of Egyptian territory in less than a week, killing thirteen, taking 3 prisoners and gathering additional intelligence for the IDF
1976 — (4th of Tammuz, 5736) As the hostage crisis at Entebbe enters Day 6 ….. and the IDF works to refine its rescue mission, Ehud Barak is reassigned and sent to Kenya and Yoni Netanyahu is moved up to take charge of the assault phase of the operation; Today, Shimon Peres wrote to Prime Minister Rabin that “the final twist” in the plan” to rescue the hostages at Entebbe “ was that the most forward squad would leave the plane in a flag-bedecked Mercedes, masquerading as the Ugandan strongman Idi Amin, who was due back from Mauritius” which led Rabin to respond with ““1. When is Idi Amin due back from Mauritius? 2. Why a Mercedes?”; Joshua Shani flies the second most important mission of his career this evening as proves to the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff that Operation Thunderbolt is feasible by landing his Hercules C-130 in the dark at Ofira Airbase. Now that Shimon Peres, who was on the plane, sees that the nighttime landing which is critical to the operation’s success is possible he can return and sell the plan to Prime Minister Rabin and the Cabinet
1980 — (18 Tammuz 5740) — The first 4 F-16 fighter jets out of 75 ordered from the United States arrived at the Ramat David Air Force Base.
1994 — (23 Tammuz 5754) — In Jerusalem, a female taxi driver was killed by terrorists during a shootout with soldiers. Arabs had taken her hostage.
2001 — (11 Tammuz 5761) — Terrorist attack. A car exploded in Yehud
2008 — (29th of Sivan, 5768) Three Israelis were killed and dozens more wounded when a Palestinian construction worker driving a bulldozer plowed deliberately into a crowded bus and a string of cars in downtown Jerusalem. Jerusalem residents Bat Sheva Unterman, 33, Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, and Jean Raloy, were named as the fatalities in the attack
2009 — (10 Tammuz 5769) — Large forest fires broke out near Nazareth and in the Jezreel Valley. Police detained and interrogated several residents of Arab villages in the Galilee suspected of setting fire to forest areas.
2009 — (10 Tammuz 5769) — Four bus companies organized night bus service to entertainment centers in Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv from 25 surrounding towns. The goal of the initiative was to provide young people with the opportunity to have fun without the risk of losing control of their vehicle or getting a ticket on the way back
2012 — (12th of Tammuz, 5772) Today the Israel Antiquities Authority announced that an archeological dig found a mosaic floor describing the story of biblical Samson and a Hebrew inscription from an approximately 1,600-year-old synagogue in the lower Galilee
2015 — (15 Tammuz 5775) — An eucalyptus park opened in the center of Beit She’an, spanning 10 hectares between the two largest residential areas.
2018 — (19 Tammuz 5778) — Two railway stations opened in Ra’anana: Ra’anana Darom and Ra’anana Ma’arav
People
1906 — Eugenio Calò was born — a partisan and hero of Italy. He died on July 14, 1944.
1929 — (24th of Sivan, 5689) Birthdate of Abraham Avigdorov the native of Moshav Mitzpa whose father Gad was killed in the 1936 Arab Revolt who received the Hero of Israel Award for destroying two machine gun nests in March of 1948
1934 — D. Borovsky was born — a theater artist and chief set designer of the Moscow Taganka Theater. He died on April 6, 2006.
1948 — (25th of Sivan, 5708) In Tel Aviv, a group of “dissident artists” including Joseph Zaritsky, Moshe Castel, Yehezkel Streichman and Yohanan Simon “published a manifesto in Haaretz” stating that new association that they were forming “must emphasize achievements in Jewish painting and not sink into mediocrity.”
2024 — (26 Sivan 5784) — The war with Gaza. Day two hundred seventy. Reserve Master Sergeant Nadav Elhanan Noler (Knoller), 30, and Reserve Major Eyal Avnion, 25, were killed; one soldier was seriously wounded.
2025 — (6 Tammuz 5785) — The war with Gaza. Day six hundred thirty-five. Sergeant Yaniv Mihalovich, 19, was killed. Three soldiers were seriously wounded.
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