History events
-1313 — (1 Elul, 2448) On the first day of the month of Elul, Moses ascended Mount Sinai and remained there with God for a third time, for forty days and forty nights without food and without sleep. God inscribed the Ten Commandments on the tablets and told Moses that He forgave the Children of Israel
66 CE — (15 Av, 3826) The Jewish War. «On the eighth day, the festival of the wood offering (in the exile — 15 Av, i.e., July 25), when everyone was to bring wood to the altar to maintain the eternal fire upon it, the Zealots excluded their opponents from participating in this act of worship. Along with the unarmed masses, many Sicarii (dagger-wielding bandits hidden under cloaks) infiltrated the Temple, with whose help they further intensified the attacks. The royal forces were outnumbered and also inferior in courage; they were forced to vacate the Upper City. The attackers then broke in there and burned down the house of the High Priest Ananias, as well as the palaces of Agrippa and Berenice; after this, they carried the fire to the archive building in order to destroy debt records as quickly as possible and make debt collection impossible. By this, they aimed to win the masses of debtors over to their side and turn the poor against the wealthy. The archive overseers fled, so they could set it on fire unopposed. Having destroyed the buildings that were, as it were, the sinews of the city, they fell upon their enemies. Some of the powerful men and high priests hid in underground passages; others, along with the royal force, retreated back into the Upper Palace and hastily locked the gates behind them. Among the latter were: the High Priest Ananias, his brother Hezekiah, and the delegates previously sent to Agrippa. Only then did the rebels pause, satisfied with their victory and the devastation wrought by fire.» (Josephus Flavius)
70 CE — (25 Tammuz, 3830) The Jewish War. «The Romans, for their part (see July 24), burned down the entire northern colonnade as far as the eastern one. The corner where these two colonnades met towered over the deepest part of the Kidron Valley. Such was the state of the immediate vicinity of the Temple.» (Josephus Flavius)
1360 — (11 Av, 5120) Anti-Jewish riots in Breslau (Wrocław). Several people were killed. The rest were expelled. After the pogrom of May 28, 1349, Jews were allowed into the cities of Silesia only by decision of the local authorities. One hundred and seven families were permitted to live in Breslau. The only occupation permitted to them was usury.
1492 — (1st of Av, 5252) The book of Proverbs with commentaries of Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides) and Menham Meiri was published in Leira Portugal by Abraham d’Ortas
1670 — (18st of Av, 5430) Jews expelled from Vienna
1804 — (17st of Av, 5564) Jacob Abraham de Mist, the Dutch commissioner-general issued a proclamation in Cape Town instituting religious equality for all which allowed for the Jews, among others, to practice their religion openly in public
1835 — (28th of Tammuz, 5595) The Jews of Hebron were attacked
1929 — (17th of Tammuz, 5689) Ahdut HaAvoda and Hapoel HaTzair, the two major labor parties in Eretz Israel officially merge
1938 — (26 Tammuz, 5698) Terrorist attack. A bomb planted by Irgun (Etzel) militants exploded in the Haifa market, killing 35 people and wounding 70.
1938 — (26 Tammuz, 5698) The kibbutz Tel Yitzhak was founded using the «Stockade and Tower» method
1941 — (1 Av, 5701) Shoah. In Komargorod (Vinnytsia region), 8 Jews were murdered
1941 — (1st of Av, 5701) Immediately after the Germans occupied the city of Lvov, Ukrainian militia commanders proclaimed Petliura Day and embarked on a three day pogrom that massacred 6,000 Jews; A two day long Pogrom began in Kovno, Lithuania which would claim the life of 3, 800Jews
1944 — (5st of Av, 5704) Thirty-one faked postcards from deportees arrive at the Lódz (Poland) Ghetto. The writers claim to have been happily resettled, when in reality they have been gassed at Chelmno
1948 — (18th of Tammuz, 5708) During Operation Shoter, Israeli forces renewed their attack on an area south of Haifa known as the “Little Triangle.”
1952 — (3 Av, 5712) Levi Eshkol was appointed Minister of Finance. He replaced E. Kaplan, who left the post due to health reasons. A few days later, Eshkol raised the salary of civil servants by 12 lira.
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1956 — (17 Av, 5716) The Presidium of the Knesset and the Israel Association of Engineers and Architects announced the opening of a competition for the planning of a permanent Knesset building in Jerusalem. At that time, the Knesset was meeting in an office building at 24 King George Street. Even before the results of the competition were published, it became known that Baron James de Rothschild had bequeathed 6 million Israeli liras for the construction of the Knesset building.
1974 — (6 Av, 5734) Supporters of the «Gush Emunim» settlement movement established an illegal settlement in Samaria, which was demolished by the army four days later. The settlers were forcibly evacuated. The government, which had decided to dismantle the settlement, stated that such a precedent of unilateral action undermines law and order in the State.
1976 — (27th of Tammuz, 5736) The Jerusalem Post reported that the Defense Ministry announced that it intended to allow Arabs living in Southern Lebanon to work inside Israel and that there would be no discrimination between Christians and Moslems willing to come. Israel had also sent truckloads of food to the Lebanese civil war victims. [This would be the start of what was known as The Good Fence Policy.
1978 — (20 Tammuz, 5738) After significant renovation, Zina Dizengoff Square opened in Tel Aviv
1993 — (7st of Av, 5753) The IDF crosses into Lebanon in Operation Accountability. The weeklong incursion was brought on by Hezbollah’s rocket attacks on Israeli settlements and the PLFP’s a killing of Israeli soldiers
1994 — (17st of Av, 5754) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old state of war
2000 — (22 Tammuz, 5760) Under the mediation of US President Clinton at Camp David (USA), negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Y. Arafat concluded, which nearly resulted in the creation of a «Palestinian» state in Judea and Samaria.
2006 — (29 Tammuz, 5766) The Second Lebanon War. Day fourteen. A girl was killed as a result of a rocket attack on Kfar Mrar. An elderly resident of Haifa died of a heart attack after a rocket exploded near his home. Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets at Israel. Fighting continued in the areas of Bint Jbeil, Maroun al-Ras, and Aytarun. The Israeli Air Force carried out a powerful strike on Hezbollah targets in Beirut.
2021 — (16 Av, 5781) Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked approved a request to grant permanent resident status to an Arab man who saved members of the Mark family after a terrorist attack carried out in 2016
People
1572 — (15st of Av, 5332) Isaac Luria the foremost rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region passes away
1721 — (1st of Av, 5481) Rabbi Aaron ben Benjamin Wolf, the son of Isaac Benjamin Wolf ben Eliezer Liebman, author of Naḥlat Binyamin passed away today at Frankfort-on-the-Oder
1739 — (1st of Av, 5499) Johann Christopher Wolf, bibliographer of Jewish books, died
1840 — (24 Tammuz, 5600) Abram Goldfaden was born — playwright, «father» of Jewish theater
1848 — (24th of Tammuz, 5608) Birthdate of Arthur Earl Balfour.
1885 — (13th of Av, 5645) On Shabbat Nachamu, Sir Moses Montefiore passed away at the age of 101. ….. Although he was an English man, Jews celebrated his 100th birthday around the world and his passing was marked in the same way. Born in 1784, Montefiore was a successful businessman and civic leader. He was recognized as a leader of the Jewish community and was knighted in 1837. He was a brother-in-law to the head of the English branch of the House of Rothschild. Montefiore was an observant Jew and a frequent visitor to Eretz Israel. He donated large sums of money for the development of agricultural settlements and built the first modern Jewish housing complex outside the walls of what is called the Old City. In other words, he started the expansion of what is Jerusalem today. He also provided funds for a windmill for grinding corn which is now known as “Montefiore’s Windmill.” It still stands today in Jerusalem as a testament to a man who supported the Jewish homeland and worked to alleviate the suffering of European Jewry
1893 — B. Ioganson was born — artist. He died on February 25, 1973.
1900 — (28 Tammuz, 5660) Artist Isaac Levitan died. In the newspaper «New Time,» in an article dedicated to him, it was written: «What a pity that non-Russian blood flowed in the veins of this Russian artist.»
1905 — E. Canetti was born — Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 1981. He died on August 13, 1994.
1929 — Yosef Alon was born — Israeli military pilot, participant in the War of Independence. One of the founders of the Israeli Air Force. He was killed in the United States on July 1, 1973, while serving as Israel’s military attaché.
1936 — L. Levin was born — architect, author of the Khatyn memorial complex
1959 — (19th of Tammuz, 5719) Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog who had been serving as the second Chief Rabbi of Israel since 1936 passed away today
2024 — (20 Tammuz, 5784) The War with Gaza. Day two hundred ninety-two. In the southern sector, 37-year-old Corporal (reservist) Moti Ravav was killed