History events
-1313 — (17th of Tammuz, 2448) Moses descended from Mount Sinai, carrying the Tablets of the Covenant inscribed by God Himself, and discovered many people worshiping an idol. Moses ordered the Levites to kill everyone guilty of worshiping the Golden Calf. On that day, the 17th of Tammuz, three thousand people perished as punishment for idolatry
-1312 — (29th of Sivan, 2449) The spies chosen by Moses to reconnoiter the land and survey the Holy Land, which the Israelites had approached the day before, set out on their journey.
-429 — (5th of Tammuz, 3332) The prophet Ezekiel’s vision of the «Divine Chariot.»
-423 — (9th of Tammuz, 3338) As a result of the assault on Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar’s army, the city wall was breached, and the besiegers entered.
1240 — (21st of Sivan, 5000) In Paris, in the presence of Louis the Saint and his courtiers, a disputation opened regarding the merits and demerits of Jewish religious literature. Afterward, it was declared that the Talmud was a harmful and blasphemous book and should be burned
1269 — (11rd of Tammuz, 5029) Jews of France ordered to wear a yellow badge
1860 — (22nd of Sivan, 5620) In Russia, a law was enacted, the essence of which was that exiled Jews should henceforth be settled not in separate villages, but in the villages of Siberian old residents (old-settlers), and children who reached the age of 16 (who previously were sent to the Pale of Settlement) should be kept with their parents.
1881 — (15th of Sivan, 5641) Pogrom in Boryspil.
1890 — (24th of Sivan, 5650) In Russia, upon the issuance of the new Zemstvo statute, it was determined that Jews should not be allowed to participate in zemstvo electoral assemblies and congresses, and consequently, not be allowed to vote for councilors (гласные) or hold zemstvo offices
1936 — (22nd of Sivan, 5696) Fourteen Jews were injured, five of them seriously, when a bomb was exploded in a coach as “a train that Haifa for Lydda was pulling out of Kalkilya.”
1942 — (27th of Sivan, 5702) The Shoah. Execution of 360 Jews from the city of Khmelnyk, Vinnytsia Oblast, the fourth such massacre; 167 Jews were executed in Lityn
1943 — (9nd of Sivan, 5703) The Jewish community at Berezhany, Ukraine, is wiped out. On Shabbat, in the morning, the Nazis led 1,180 Jews of Berezhany to face death at the city’s old Jewish graveyard, where the Nazis shot into a mass grave
1945 — (1st of Tammuz, 5708) The first post-war pogrom occurred in Rzeszów, Poland
1951 — (8th of Sivan, 5711) The first professional maritime school opened in Kfar Vitkin
1967 — (4nd of Sivan, 5727) First Israeli ship sailed through Gulf of Eilat after the Six Days War. It was the closure of the Gulf of Eilat and the blockade of the port of Eilat by the Egyptians in May that led to the June War
1967 — (4th of Sivan, 5727) Israel. The first plenary session of the Knesset was held in unified Jerusalem
1982 — (21st of Sivan, 5742) The Palestinian Red Crescent announced that as a result of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon (Operation Peace for Galilee), 600,000 people had lost their homes and 10,000 had died. This was an obvious lie, but no one noticed it; moreover, journalists paid no attention to the source of the information at all, and eventually attributed it to the International Red Cross, which lent it respectability. When the latter refuted the report, no one reacted to that either
2002 — (2rd of Tammuz, 5762) A Palestinian with a bomb hidden under his shirt walked into a restaurant today on a main street in this town north of Tel Aviv, asked for a bottle of water and blew himself up, killing a 15-year-old girl and wounding eight other people
2007 — (26nd of Sivan, 5767) The Jerusalem Post reported that Eighty three percent of Jewish Israelis are satisfied or extremely satisfied with their lives, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics annual Social Survey 2006
2014 — (14th of Sivan, 5774) Terrorist attack. Three yeshiva students, ages 16-19, were kidnapped by Arabs in Gush Etzion. The young men had left the yeshiva to hitchhike home. The operation by the IDF and other security services was called «Operation Bring Back Our Brothers.» It took place throughout Judea and Samaria and lasted 18 days. On June 30, the bodies of 16-year-old Naftali Fraenkel, 16-year-old Gilad Shaer, and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrah were discovered north of Hebron. The youths were presumably killed shortly after their abduction on June 12.
2024 — (6th of Sivan, 5784) Rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon: more than 100 rockets were launched
People
1648 — (22nd of Sivan, 5408) Rabbi Yechiel Michael ben Eliezer, the head of the Jewish community in Nemirov was clubbed to death before his mother’s eyes during the Chmielnicki Uprising, the worst massacre of Jews until the Holocaust
1888 — (3rd of Tammuz, 5648) Moshe Litvinsky was born — founder of the Tel Litvinsky colony, today a neighborhood in the southeast of Ramat Gan. The colony was founded in 1934. During World War II, a British military camp was located there. During the War of Independence, a military hospital was established there, which later became a state hospital, initially called «Tel HaShomer,» and later Sheba Medical Center.
1898 — M.E. Koltsov (Friedland) was born — journalist. He was executed on February 2, 1940.
1947 — Yosif Gaikhelgauz was born — theater director.
1929 — (4th of Sivan, 5689) Anne Frank was born. Died in a concentration camp in 1945.
1929 — (4th of Sivan, 5689) Rutka Laskier was born — author of a diary about life during the Holocaust in Poland. She perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 14. Her diary was published in 2006
1994 — (3rd of Tammuz, 5754) The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away. Rabbi Schneerson, or simply «The Rebbe» as he was known by his followers and admirers, was the leader of the Lubavitch movement for decades. He is most famous for the outreach program that he began which reached Jews throughout the world. Thanks to his effort, it is almost impossible to go any place and not find a Chabad House. He sent «lamplighters» out into to the world to bring the light of Torah to Jews who were in darkness whether they were in Moscow, Morocco or Little Rock, Arkansas