History events
-424 B.C.E. (9 Tammuz 3337) The armies of Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the walls of Jerusalem and entered the city. Four weeks later, the Holy Temple was destroyed, and the Jews were exiled to Babylon.
1791 (20 Sivan 5551) The decree of Catherine the Second established a printing house in Belarus that printed Jewish books with «proper supervision of its production.»
1942 (7 Tammuz 5702) Shoah. The beginning of the extermination of the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto. By September 13, 310,000 people were sent to Treblinka; over 300 Jews were shot in Shatsk (Volhynia)
1942 — (7th of Tammuz, 5702) The Jewish Brigade was formed was formed as part of the British military. The Jewish Brigade fought in Italy and after the war helped many Jewish refugees escape to Palestine, despite the British Blockade. Veterans of the brigade would use their skills in the War For Independence.
1948 (15 Sivan 5708) Israel. The battle for Atalena.
1948 (15 Sivan 5708) The ship «Inko» delivered explosives and ammunition to Israel.
1951 — (18th of Sivan, 5711) The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel spent IL50m. during 1950 on housing and work for more than 100,000 immigrants
1952 — (29th of Sivan, 5712) A small home-made bomb exploded at 1:30 A.M. today ….. on the doorstep of the apartment of Minister of Communications David Z. Pinkas. The bombing was seen as part of protest against restrictions on driving which are to go into effect next week. Israelis will not be allowed to drive their car for two days of each week. One of the days that on which one cannot drive is Shabbat. Opponents of the ban claim that the action has more to with attempts by Orthodox Jews to ban driving on the Sabbath than it does with gasoline conservation. Pinkas is a leader of the Mizrachi Party and thought to be a leader of those supporting the Shabbat driving ban
1955 (2 Tammuz 5715) Shoah. Judge Benjamin Halevi issued a verdict in the case of Grünwald vs. Kastner, in which all of Grünwald’s claims regarding Kastner’s collaboration with the Nazis were recognized as true. The article stated that Kastner managed to save about 1,700 people—businessmen, leaders of the Zionist movement, rabbis, and relatives—in exchange for his silence regarding the impending genocide. Grünwald’s article turned public consciousness upside down. Before it was published, Kastner was considered the savior of 1,700 Jews. After its publication, he was regarded as an accomplice to the murder of hundreds of thousands.
1970 (18 Sivan 5730) War of Attrition. An Israeli «Skyhawk» plane was shot down by MiG-21 aircraft piloted by Soviet pilots. At that time, there were between 15,000 and 21,000 Soviet military specialists in Egypt. The pilots and air defense representatives fought against Israel.
1973 (22 Sivan 5733) A commission led by Dr. Israel Katz published a report after two years of work on the dire situation of immigrants from Asia and Africa.
2006 (26 Sivan 5766) Participants of the 29th International Red Cross Conference held in Switzerland voted to admit «Magen David Adom» to this organization.
2010 (10 Tammuz 5770) A Hamas activist gang was arrested, which killed Israeli policeman Joshua Sofer in the southern Hebron Hills on June 14, 2010 (one of the group leaders took his 6-year-old daughter to «Hadassah Ein Kerem» hospital in Jerusalem two weeks before the attack, where the child underwent surgery to remove a tumor from her eye).
2010 (10 Tammuz 5770) Israel. The Israeli satellite «Ofek-9» was launched into space from the «Palmachim» base.
2012 (2 Tammuz 5772) The results of the Australian census conducted a year earlier were published. There were 97,335 Jews.
2016 (22 Sivan 5776) The Knesset passed a law regulating the licensing of auto services, which began to regulate all areas of activity in the transportation sector, such as the import and sale of vehicles, as well as the import and trade of auto parts.
2025 (26 Sivan 5785) Operation «The People as a Lion.» Day ten. America attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Around 07:37, a missile attack on Israel began. Of the 20 missiles launched, four penetrated the air defense and fell in residential areas—in Nes Tzion, Be’er Ya’akov, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. 11 people were injured.
People
1864 — Hermann Minkowski was born—German mathematician. Died in 1909
1898 — (19 Sivan 5658) Rabbi Samuel Mohilever passed away. ….. Born in 1824 in Russia, Mohilever was a Talmudic scholar and one of the leading orthodox rabbis of Eastern Europe. A graduate from the famous Voloshin Yeshiva, he was conversant in math, engineering and a number of languages. Mohilever encouraged Baron Edmond de Rothschild to support the resettling of Russian families in Eretz-Israel and was a mediator between the settlers and Rothschild in various disagreements that arose. He was the founder of Mizrachi, a religious Zionist organization. In 1881, he was one of the founders of the Hovevei Zion, Lovers of Zion
1900 (25 Sivan 5660) Jenny Tourel (real name Davidovich) was born—American singer. Died on November 23, 1973.
1932 — Moshe Nativ was born—colonel in the IDF, public and political figure in Israel. Died in 2008.
1939 — Ada Yonath was born—biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry for 2009.
1988 — Omri Casspi was born—Israeli basketball player
1989 — (19th of Sivan, 5749) In Jerusalem Professor Menachem Stern, a Hebrew University Scholar and member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities was stabbed to death by two teenage Arabs as he walked home
2024 (17 Sivan 5784) War with Gaza. Day two hundred and sixty. Reserve Senior Sergeant Gross Malkiya, 25 years old, was killed. was killed