History events
-1313 — (25 Nisan 2448 BCE). The Jews who left Egypt set up camp in Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy date palms. They stayed there for twenty days.
-1274 BCE — (5 Nisan 2487). Joshua (Yehoshua bin Nun) sent scouts Caleb and Phinehas across the Jordan River to Jericho to survey the approaches to the city and assess the situation there ahead of the Jewish conquest of the city. In Jericho, they were assisted by a woman named Rahab, who later became Joshua’s wife.
1460 — (1 Nisan 5220). Austrian Duke Frederick V of Styria granted the request of the authorities of Upper and Lower Austria to expel the Jews and refuted the rumour that he had been favourably disposed towards them.
1475 — (15 Nisan 5235). Blood libel in Trento. On this day, a two‑year‑old boy named Simon went missing in the city. Franciscan friar Bernardino of Feltre and a certain Johann Schweitzer, who lived near the Jewish quarter, claimed that the child should be sought among the Jews. However, a thorough search conducted by the mayor of Trento on the orders of Bishop Hinderbach yielded no results
1490 — (1th Nisan, 5250) The first dated edition of Maimonides’ “Mishneh Torah” was published.
1714 — (18th Nisan, 5474) Duke Ferdinand expelled the Jews from Courland
1880 — (11th Nisan, 5640) In Russia an editorial entitled “The Yid is Coming” is published in the anti-Semitic journal Novoe Vermie
1881 — (22th of Adar II 5641) Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Lubny, Russia
1893 — (6 Nisan 5653). Kosher slaughter of livestock was banned in Saxony
1915 — (8th Nisan, 5675) The Zion Mule Corps, consisting of Jewish volunteers from Palestine, was formed to serve with the British Army. This was the first Palestinian Jewish military unit attached to a regular army in the modern times
1921 — (13 Adar II 5681). Keren HaYesod was registered as a British joint‑stock company — an organisation that took on the function of financing all activities of the World Zionist Organization related to the settlement of Israel.
1942 — (5 Nisan 5702) Shoah. About 700 unfit-for-work Jews were shot in Ternopil, and 300 in Brailiv (Vinnytsia Oblast). The Jewish action in Lviv continued
1942 — (5th Nisan, 5702) Shoah. Of the approximately 4,000 remaining Jews in Lublin, Poland 2,500 were massacred and the rest of them were deported to Majdanek for extermination. At the start of the war, 40,000 of the 125,000 inhabitants of Lublin had been Jewish
1943 — (16th of Adar II, 5703)Shoah. Twenty-nine Jewish orphans at La Rose Orphanage in Les Accates, France, as well as Alice Salomon, the guardian who refused to leave them two months before, were gassed at the Sobibor death camp
1946 — (23 Adar II 5706). Clashes with police during an attempt to land illegal immigrants on the shore in Tel Aviv itself.
1948 — (12 Adar II 5708). War of Independence. A convoy from Tel Aviv was attacked on its way to Jerusalem. It is known as the “Purim convoy”
1948 — (12th of Adar II 5708) David Ben-Gurion “cabled the United States State Department a warning that he and his colleagues would with all of their strength oppose any postponement of Jewish independence.” The U.S. State Department, the body that had done so much to keep Jews from getting to the United States during the Hitler period, was busy trying to sabotage President Truman’s support of partition and the creation of a Jewish state
1949 — (22th of Adar II, 5709) Israel and Lebanon signed an armistice agreement. Israeli troops withdrew from border towns they had occupied during the fighting.
1976 — (21 Adar II 5736). Terrorist attack. A bomb exploded at the premises of the Argentine Council of Jewish Women in Buenos Aires.
1983 — (9 Nisan 5743). The Politburo adopted a resolution to establish the Anti‑Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public. With the exception of publicist Yu. Belyaev, all members of the committee were Jews: the chairman was General D. Dragunsky; the deputy chairman was the prominent legal scholar S. Zivs; committee members included G. Zimanas, editor of the central organ of the Lithuanian Communist Party, writer Yu. Kolesnikov, and others. Already during the committee’s first press conference, General D. Dragunsky compared Zionists to German Nazis.
1988 — (5 Nisan 5748). The Israeli national football team defeated the Taiwan national team 9:0. This was the team’s largest victory.
2004 — (1 Nisan 5764). Hezbollah militants fired several rockets into Israel from Lebanese territory. Near the Netzarim settlement, close to the Gaza Strip, an Israeli army armoured vehicle was hit by a rocket. One mortar shell was fired at the settlement itself. Immediately afterwards, a homemade Qassam rocket landed near the Erez crossing point on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
2011 — (17 Adar II 5771). Terrorist attack at one of the bus stops in Jerusalem. A bomb planted in a bag exploded. A 56‑year‑old tourist from England was killed. Twenty‑five people were injured.
2015 — (3 Nisan 5775). The third lane of traffic was opened on the Coastal Highway (Highway No. 2) from the Natanya interchange to Havazelet.
2021 — (10 Nisan 5781). Regular, fourth consecutive elections to the 24th Knesset: Likud — 30, Yesh Atid — 17, Shas — 9…
2025 — (23 Adar I 5785). The government approved Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s proposal to separate 13 Jewish areas and outposts in Judea and Samaria from neighbouring settlements and grant them the status of independent localities. This concerned the settlements and outposts of Alon, Harasha, Kerem Re’im, Niriya, Migron, Shvut Rachel, Avnat, Brosh HaBeka’a — Betronot, Leshem, Nofei Nehemia, Tal Menashe, Ivei HaNahal, and Gva’ot. Obtaining official status meant, among other things, the start of construction, further expansion, and population growth
People
1712 — (15th of Adar II, 5472) Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Koidonover author of Kav ha-Yashar passed away
1867 — (16 Adar II 5627). Shmaryahu Haimovich Levin was born in Lithuania — a member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire, a Zionist movement figure, and a publicist. He died on June 9, 1935
1880 — (11 Nisan 5640). Yaakov Johann Thon was born in Lviv — a Zionist leader, one of the organisers of the “Land Development Company” and its first manager. He died on March 5, 1950
1887 — (27th of Adar, 5647) Seventy-year-old Posen born Rabbi Eliezer Landshuth, author of Amudei ha-Avodah passed away today at Berlin
1900 — Erich Fromm was born in Frankfurt am Main — a philosopher. He died on March 18, 1980
1917 — (29th of Adar, 5667) Birthdate of Yevgeny Khaldei the Soviet born Jewish World War II combat photographer whose work included one of the most famous of that genre showing a Soviet soldier raising a flag over the Reichstag as the Red Army triumphed in the Battle of Berlin
1932 — (15th of Adar II, 5692) Sixty-five year old Boris Schatz, the Lithuanian born sculptor who became known as the «father of Israeli art,» founded the Bezalel School in Jerusalem passed away today
1944 — British Major-General Orde Wingate died in airplane crash while fighting the Japanese in Burma during World War II