History events
1096 — (4nd of Tammuz, 4856) Massacres of the Jews took place in Xanten and Eller (Germany). This was the second massacre at Xanten in a month. Fifty Jews died. At Eller, five Jewish community leaders were assigned the task (by the community) of killing all the members and then themselves rather than suffer at the hands of the Crusaders. Out of a community of three hundred, only four remained, badly wounded.
1902 — (22 Sivan 5662) The first issue of the daily Yiddish newspaper Yiddish daily was published in New York, aimed at the Americanization of Russian Jewish immigrants. One page of each issue was printed in English.
1910 — (20 Sivan 5670) The annual conference of the World Zionist Movement began in Berlin. According to the charter of the World Zionist Organization, conferences were held between congresses. Representatives of Zionist organizations from individual countries and heads of Zionist institutions (National Fund and Colonial Bank) participated in them
1918 — (17nd of Tammuz, 5678) The volunteers of the Jewish Battalion in World War I were sent to the front. ….. In August 1917, thanks in part to the efforts of Jabotinsky; the formation of a Jewish regiment was officially announced. Formation of such a unit had been opposed by members of the British military and other members of the British Establishment. By 1917, the Empire was desperate for soldiers. It was probably this sense of desperation more than anything else that led to the formation of the first Jewish combat unit since the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135. The unit was designated as the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. It included British volunteers, members of the former Zion Mule Corps and a large number of Russian Jews. In April 1918, it was joined by the 39th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, more than 50 percent of whom were American volunteers. In June 1918, The 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers was sent to Palestine, where the volunteers fought for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule
1919 — (29 Sivan 5679) A secret department was created in the Cheka for operational work to neutralize the activities of Zionist organizations in Russia. Officially, on July 21, it was clarified that since the Zionist Organization had not previously been declared counter-revolutionary, there were no grounds for adopting a special act for its legal recognition, and that Soviet authorities would not obstruct the cultural and educational activities of the Zionists
1941 — (2nd of Tammuz, 5701) On a day known as Red Friday: German units in Bialystok began to randomly shoot Jews. Eight hundred were locked in the Great Synagogue, which the Nazis then it set on fire. More were forced in during the blaze. Resisters were shot. The Germans threw hand grenades into Jewish homes. By the end of the day, 2,000 Jews were murdered. Similar horrors took place in Minsk
1941 — (2 Tammuz 5701) The Shoah. In Nizhenkovichi (Lviv region), 18 Jews were executed
1942 — (12 Tammuz 5702) The Shoah. About 2,300 Jews from Lyakhovtsy (now Bilohirya, Khmelnytskyi region) were shot, along with possibly 804 Jews from Yampil in the Lyakhovetsky district and 85 Jews from Yampil in the Teofipol district. On the same day, a ghetto was established in Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk region (3,500 people), several hundred Jews were executed in Nemirov (Vinnytsia region), and approximately 2,000 Jews were taken from Kolomyia (Ivano-Frankivsk region) to Belzec.
1943 — (24 Sivan 5703) The Shoah. The extermination of the Jews of Galicia was completed.
1945 — (16 Tammuz 5705) In Krakow, a Jewish woman was arrested and taken to the police station on charges of intending to kidnap and kill a child. After an investigation, it turned out that the suspect had been asked to look after the child. Despite this, a crowd began to gather in the square with anti-Semitic slogans. The police managed to take control of the situation
1948 — (2nd of Sivan, 5708) Today, The general officers of the nascent Israel Defense Forces were sworn-in in a ceremony
1951 — (23nd of Sivan, 5713) The Jerusalem Post reported that мore than one million dollars worth of food parcels sent by relatives abroad arrived in Israel every month. About 70,000 such food packages were sent through commercial firms, and 40,000 were mailed directly by relatives.
1954 — (26nd of Sivan, 5714) Meir Har-Zion in a seven man squad led by Major Aharon Davidi that launched a surprise attack on an Arab Legion camp at Azzun, 13 km east of Qalqilya tonight.
1967 — (19 Sivan 5727) The Knesset passed amendments to laws that provided a legal basis for the unification of Jerusalem and extended Israeli jurisdiction over the entire territory of the united city. On the same day, a bill was approved for the protection of holy sites
1976 — (29nd of Sivan, 5736) An archaeological dig uncovered the Golan site of the ancient Jewish fortress of Bamla, which was destroyed by Vespasian in the early stages of the rebellion against Rome in the year 67
1976 — (29nd of Sivan, 5736) News broke that ….. four hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells had captured an Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. The plane was diverted to Entebbe in Uganda, where it was held pending terrorist demands for the release of 53 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli and various European jails. The separation of Jewish passengers from among the hostages particularly alarmed the authorities in Jerusalem
2004 — (8 Tammuz 5764) In Sderot, as a result of a rocket attack from Gaza near a kindergarten, a 49-year-old man and his three-year-old grandson were killed. The boy’s mother was seriously injured.
2006 — (1 Tammuz 5766) Terrorist attack. An 18-year-old resident of the Jewish settlement of Itamar, Eliyahu Asheri, was kidnapped by Arabs and killed two days later.
2015 — (10th of Tammuz, 5775) An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale “was felt in several Israeli cities” this morning
2017 — (3 Tammuz 5777) In Haifa, at the Technion, a ceremony was held to lay the cornerstone for the construction of a funicular that will connect the Technion and the University with the Check-Post area and the central bus station — the main transport hub in northern Israel. For the first time in Israel, the funicular will be part of the public transport system
People
1570 — (24rd of Tammuz, 5330) Cabbalist Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, known as Ramak, passed away in Safed
1723 — (5nd of Tammuz, 5483) Today, Isaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samudaa British physician and poet who was of Portuguese-Jewish descent and was the first member of the Samuda family to settle in Britain was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
1824 — (1nd of Tammuz, 5584) Joseph Israels, Dutch painter, born
1868 — (7 Tammuz 5628) Bezalel Yaffe was born — a Zionist figure of the early 20th century. He died on December 4, 1925.
1917 — (7 Tammuz 5677) Meir Bint was born — an Israeli spy. He was captured in Egypt on August 12, 1954. He died in prison on December 21, 1954.
1920 — (5 Tammuz 5685) Esther Tsailingold was born — a volunteer of the Haganah, participant in the War of Independence, defended Jerusalem during the Arab Legion’s offensive. She was wounded and died on May 29, 1948.
1937 — Vladimir Herzog was born — a Brazilian journalist, public figure, member of the Communist Party, active participant in the civil resistance movement against the Brazilian military dictatorship. He died in prison on October 25, 1975.
1945 — A. Ayalon was born — commander of the Israeli Navy, public and political figure.
1967 — (19 Sivan 5727) Two pilots I. Glentz-Golan and G. Dror were returned from Iraqi prisons in exchange for 428 Jordanian prisoners
2003 — (27 Sivan 5763) Senior Sergeant of the Israel Defense Forces E. Ashkenazi was killed in the Gaza Strip.
2004 — (8th of Tammuz, 5764) Mordechai Yosefov, 49, and three-year-old, Afik Zahavi, were killed outside a kindergarten when Palestinian terrorists in Gaza launched Kassam rockets into the southern Israeli city of Sderot. Zahavi’s mother, Miriam, was seriously injured in the attack, and is struggling to recover in a local hospital
2007 — (11th of Tammuz, 5767) Dr. Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian businessman ….. identified as the Mossad agent who tipped Israel off on the eve of the Yom Kippur War about the coming surprise attack was found dead outside his home in London’s Mayfair neighborhood. Dr. Ashraf Marwan was the son-in-law of the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. There is a dispute as to whether Marwan was really a spy for Israel or whether he was in a double agent who was feeding disinformation to his Israeli handlers
2024 — (21 Sivan 5784) War with Gaza. Day two hundred sixty-five. 19-year-old Sergeant Eyal Sheinis was killed