History events
1389 — (24 Sivan 5149) The «privilege» of the Prince of Grodno and Trakai, Vytautas, appears, in which the Jews of Grodno are mentioned for the first time
1492 — (23th of Sivan, 5252) A Sicilian version the Edict of Expulsion issued by the Spanish monarchs was published today in Palermo
1768 — (3 Tammuz 5528) The Haidamak pogrom in Uman. More than 20,000 Jews and Poles are killed.
1841 — (29 Sivan 5601) The Etz Chaim yeshiva is established in Jerusalem. For a long time, its classes were scattered throughout the city. Only in 1857 did it receive a permanent location near the ruins of the Hurva synagogue
1916 — (17th of Sivan, 5676) The Turkish military governor, Djemal Pasha, banned Jews from praying at the Kotel
1919 — (20th of Sivan, 5679) The publication of Haaretz, a Hebrew daily newspaper, begins in Jerusalem. It will move to Tel Aviv in 1923
1920 — (2 Tammuz 5680) The All-Russian Public Committee for Assisting Victims of Pogroms and Natural Disasters is established in Russia
1936 — (28th of Sivan, 5696) The Palestine Post reported that a commission had been appointed by the government to replace the Haifa’s Municipal Council which since the beginning of the Arab boycott was no longer able to discharge its duties. The government began to demolish the condemned buildings in the Old City of Jaffa. The quarter looked like a nightmare with furniture, bedding and odds and ends being dragged out of condemned houses
1939 — (1 Tammuz 5699) A special assignments commission is created in the Haganah to organize special operation groups. The best fighters from the field companies were recruited, trained in the use of pistols, judo, boxing, and fencing, and divided into groups, each with its own task; the groups were unaware of each other’s existence. There were three divisions: in the north, south, and Jerusalem. Orders were given by Ben-Gurion.
1940 — (12 Sivan 5700) The commanders of the Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang) are released. They had been arrested the day before the start of World War II while gathered in Tel Aviv to discuss Vladimir Jabotinsky’s plan to seize power in the Yishuv. They were released because the British needed allies in the Middle East.
1942 — (3 Tammuz 5702) Shoah. In Zvenigorod (Cherkasy region), 1,375 Jews, including relocated Jews from Katerynopil, are shot. In a meeting in Krakow, SS and police leader in Lviv, Katzman, reported that there were still 85,000 Jews in Lviv, of whom 45,000 were working.
1946 — (19 Sivan 5706) Lehi fighters kidnapped six British officers from the Bat-Ramon hotel in Tel Aviv to persuade the British to cancel the death sentence for two Lehi fighters captured during a raid on a British military base in Tzrifin (then Sarfand). The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and the officers were released.
1946 — (19 Sivan 5706) Lehi’s attack on the railway workshops in Haifa: locomotives, cranes, and machines were disabled; warehouses were destroyed. Two fighters were killed during the infiltration of the depot, and another nine (including the operation commander) were ambushed after the mission was completed. Twenty-two members of Lehi were arrested
1947 — (30th of Sivan, 5707) Ben-Gurion ….. appointed Yaakov Dori as the chief of staff and Yisrael Galili as the new national command head as part of his plan to revamp the Yishuv’s military forces; published a long memorandum addressed to the Haganah command. He outlined a three-fold structure for the organization: an excellent attack force for special purposes; a driving force in the form of a regular army; and a territorial defense force. The most urgent goal: training commanders up through the battalion level; establishing a high school for commanders to prepare battalion commanders and staff officers. This was necessary because up until this time, the Haganah’s platoon commander’s course was the highest level of training
1950 — (3 Tammuz 5710) The first flight of El Al to America. The route was through Rome, Lisbon, the Azores, and Newfoundland.
1950 — (3 Tammuz 5710) The first stage of the pipeline from the Coastal Plain to Jerusalem is completed. This allowed for a doubling of the water volume in the city’s water supply system.
1951 — (14th of Sivan, 5711) The Jerusalem Post reported that ….. the Negev rejoiced when water spurted several meters high in the yellow wilderness when Avraham Hartzfeld, the gray-haired patron of the settlers, turned the tap of the new pipeline and pumping station; that Israel’s first steel-pipe factory was opened south of Acre by the Middle East Tube Co. Ltd; that the new freighter Eilat called at Haifa with a cargo of 9,000 tons of wheat and 2,000 tons of machinery
1967 — (10 Sivan 5727) In hopes of regaining lost territories during the Six-Day War, King Hussein of Jordan proposed to Arab countries to recognize Israel’s right to exist but found no support. Israel was ready for negotiations on «peace for territory.»
1968 — (22th of Sivan, 5728) The Jewish Defense League’s first meeting was held at the West Side Jewish Center today
1976 — (20th of Sivan, 5736) The Jerusalem Post reported that the Treasury and the Histadrut had jointly decided that Value Added Tax would be levied at 8 percent, as of July 1
1981 — (16 Sivan 5741) A monument to 80,000 French Jews who were deported and perished in concentration camps is unveiled in the Valley of Elah, near the settlement of Neve Michael.
1981 — (16 Sivan 5761) A settlement called Hinanit is established in the northern part of Samaria, between the cities of Hadera and Afula.
1982 — (27 Sivan 5742) Neve-Daniel is established as a community settlement in Gush Etzion
2002 — (8th of Tammuz, 5762) Nineteen people, including two children, ….. were killed and 74 were injured – six seriously – in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus #32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying a number of students on their way to school. The victims: Boaz Aluf, 54, of Jerusalem; Shani Avi-Zedek, 15, of Jerusalem; Leah Baruch, 59, of Jerusalem; Mendel Bereson, 72, of Jerusalem; Rafael Berger, 28, of Jerusalem; Michal Biazi, 24, of Jerusalem; Tatiana Braslavsky, 41, of Jerusalem; Galila Bugala, 11, of Jerusalem; Raisa Dikstein, 67, of Jerusalem; Dr. Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of Jerusalem; Baruch Gruani, 60, of Jerusalem; Orit Hayla, 21, of Jerusalem; Helena Ivan, 63, of Jerusalem; Iman Kabha, 26, of Barta; Shiri Negari, 21, of Jerusalem; Gila Nakav, 55, of Jerusalem; Yelena Plagov, 42, of Jerusalem; Liat Yagen, 24 of Jerusalem; Rahamim Zidkiyahu, 51, of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack
2003 — (18th of Sivan, 5763) A Palestinian terrorist killed 19 passengers when he detonated a bomb on a bus in Jerusalem
2012 — (28 Sivan 5772) A terrorist attack occurs. A group of Arabs from Egyptian territory opens fire on Israeli workers installing a barrier near the Nitzana checkpoint. One worker is killed, and another is injured. Arriving IDF soldiers return fire. Four attackers are killed. Residents of Israeli settlements in the area are ordered to stay indoors. Classes in schools and kindergartens are canceled.
2025 — (22 Sivan 5785) The first day of Operation «Safe Return» begins, aimed at bringing back Israeli residents who were caught abroad by the sudden outbreak of war with Iran and had no means to return. Evacuation flights were conducted only during the daytime, with the airport receiving no more than two flights per hour. Medical personnel, reservists who received summons, children traveling with stewardesses, and those in urgent need of medical assistance were prioritized for return.
2025 — (22 Sivan 5785) A decree is issued granting Tiberias city status, allowing its residents to obtain licenses for personal weapons based on their place of residence. Last week, this list was expanded to include Hatzor HaGlilit and Beit She’an, and previously the reform was extended to Sderot, Ofakim, many areas of Jerusalem, Modiin, and other cities.
People
1643 — (11st of Tammuz, 5403) Aaron Abba ben Johanan ha-Levi, the “president of the rabbinical college in Lemberg” who was a contemporary of Abraham Rapoport, Joel Särkes, and Meir Lublin passed away today
1906 — Clifford Odets is born — playwright, director. Died August 14, 1963.
1923 — V. I. Goldansky is born — physicist. Died January 14, 2001.
1992 — (17th of Sivan, 5752) Famed Israeli painter, Mordecai Ardon, passed away
2001 — (27th of Sivan, 5761) Palestinian terrorists murdered 35 year old Dan Yehuda in a drive-by shooting
2011 — (16th of Sivan, 5771) Eighty-eight year old Elena Boner, the Soviet dissident and human-rights campaigner who endured banishment and exile along with her husband, the dissident nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, passed away today. Her father was an Armenia. Her mother, Ruth Bonner was a Jewess born in Siberia who disappeared into the Gulag in 1938