History events
1221 — (25th of Sivan, 4981) Many Jews murdered in Erfurt
1385 — (6th of Tammuz, 5145) Emperor Wenceslaus arrested Jews living in what was known as the Swabian League, (the league of free cities in South Germany) and confiscated their books. A hefty fine had to be paid for their return and the release of the prisoners
1648 (6 Tammuz 5408) — Jews of the Ukrainian city of Tulchyn killed at the hands of Khmelnytsky’s Cossacks
1870 (17 Sivan 5630) — The City Statute was introduced, according to which Jews in Russia could not be elected as city heads
1887 (24 Sivan 5647) — The Second Congress of the Hovevei Zion society in Druskininkai
1906 — (23th of Sivan, 5666) After three days of violence, the Bialystok Pogrom came to an end. The death count varies; from a low of 80 to a high of 100. Hundreds of Jewish owned shops were destroyed
1925 — (24th of Sivan, 5685) The third session of the National Assembly of the Palestine Jewry split today over the question of woman suffrage with the progressive elements demanding that women have right to vote and be elected to the National Assembly and the Orthodox Jews opposing it
1933 — (22th of Sivan, 5693) According to a census on this date, the Jewish population of Berlin, Germany’s capital city was about 160,000. Berlin’s Jewish community was the largest in Germany, comprising more than 32 percent of all Jews in the country
1933 — (22nd of Sivan, 5693) Unknown assailants murder Zionist Labor leader Chaim Arlosoroff
1940 (10 Sivan 5700) — In Bordeaux, an operation began that the historian of these events, Yehuda Bauer, called the largest single‑person rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Portuguese consul Aristides Mendes began issuing visas to everyone, regardless of nationality, race, or religion. Members of Mendes’s family were also involved in the work. Mendes issued visas for over a week in Bordeaux, Hendaye, and Bayonne, until the Germans occupied Bordeaux on June 30. On July 4, the Portuguese authorities opened disciplinary proceedings against Mendes; in the autumn, he was dismissed. In memory of Mendes, a forest in the Negev Desert in Israel was named after him, as well as a square in Tel Aviv. In January 1961, a tree was planted in his honour in the “Righteous Among the Nations” alley at Yad Vashem. In 1966, Yad Vashem issued a medal: “To Aristides de Sousa Mendes — from the grateful Jewish people”
1943 — (13th of Sivan, 5703) SS chief Heinrich Himmler allows a transfer of Jewish prisoners from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp located in Germany for medical experiments involving jaundice
1946 — (17th of Sivan, 5706) Tonight, Operation Markolet or Night of the Bridges, a Haganah operation designed “to destroy eleven bridges linking Palestine with the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt began
1947 (28 Sivan 5707) — First meeting of the UN Commission on Palestine. It was established at the initiative of Britain, which proposed that the United Nations investigate the Palestine issue. The commission included representatives from 11 countries: Australia, Guatemala, India, Iran, Canada, the Netherlands, Peru, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Yugoslavia. The Arabs refused to participate
1952 — (23th of Sivan, 5712) «Anne Frank: Diary of Young Girl» is published in the United States
1954 (15 Sivan 5714) — The USSR sent Israel an official invitation to take part in a fur fair. Private and state enterprises were invited to Leningrad
1960 (21 Sivan 5720) — Operation of Israel’s first nuclear reactor began at the Soreq Research Center
1963 — (24th of Sivan, 5723) David Ben-Gurion resigned for the second and last time as Prime Minister and Defense Minister. Levi Eshkol will be chosen as a compromise candidate to fill both positions.
2002 (6 Tammuz 5762) — Construction of the Security Barrier began. The first section, 130 km long, was to run from the settlement of Kfar Salem near Jenin to the settlement of Kfar Kassem
2009 (24 Sivan 5769) — Shabtai Lavon set an Israeli national record: within 24 hours in the Netanya area, he committed 11 armed and unarmed robberies. He was caught
2017 (22 Sivan 5777) — Terrorist attack. Three Arabs attacked border guards near the Shechem Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. 22‑year‑old soldier Adas Malka was killed, and 4 people were injured. The terrorists were killed
2024 (10 Sivan 5784) — The Quantum Technologies Center was opened in Tel Aviv
2025 (20 Sivan 5785) — Operation “A People Like a Lion”. Day four. The IAF continued to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran shelled Israel. Rockets fell in Petah Tikva, Bnei Brak, and Haifa. 8 killed, 287 injured
People
1171 (11 Tammuz 4931) — Rabbi Yaakov bar Meir died at the age of 71, one of a galaxy of Jewish scholars of the 12th–14th centuries, mainly from France and Germany
1591 — (4th of Tammuz, 5351) Joseph Solomon del Medigo born
1775 — (18th of Sivan, 5535) Birthdate of Judah Touro, the native of Newport, Rhode Island who was the son of Isaac Touro who moved to New Orleans where he became a successful businessman. Touro fought in the Battle of New Orleans under Andrew Jackson and became one of the nation’s leading philanthropists contributing to a wide variety of secular and Jewish causes
1927 (16 Sivan 5687) — Yakov Hodorov was born — a famous Israeli football player, goalkeeper. He died on December 31, 2006
1944 — (25th of Sivan, 5704) In France, Jewish historian Marc Bloch, a leader of the resistance group Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, is executed by German troops
1944 (25 Sivan 5704) — Avigdor Kahalani, a Hero of Israel, was born in Nes Tziona. During the Yom Kippur War, he commanded the 77th Tank Battalion. In a battle near the city of Quneitra, the battalion managed to halt superior enemy forces and destroy dozens of Syrian tanks. Kahalani himself commanded the battalion from the open hatch of one of the tanks
1947 — (28th of Sivan, 5707) Bronislaw Huberman, famed violinist and founder of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra, passed away
1957 — (17th of Sivan, 5717) Fifty-four year old David “Davie the Jew” Berman a mobster who began his criminal career in Sioux City, Iowa died today during surgery in Las Vegas where he had teamed up with Bugsy Siegel to turn the city into a gambler’s paradise
2025 (20 Sivan 5785) — Gaza War. Day 619. 20‑year‑old Senior Sergeant Nave Leshem was killed. In the same battle, 10 other servicemen were injured