History events
-1713 — (22 Nisan 2048) Yitzchak ben Avraham, the great righteous one and prophet, the second of the Patriarchs of the people of Israel, became the first child to be circumcised, according to the law of the Torah, on the eighth day after his birth.
-1274 — (10 Nisan 2487) In the area of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, the prophetess Miriam, sister of Moshe, died. Throughout all the years of wandering in the wilderness, the children of Israel were provided with water from a spring that flowed from a rock. This spring accompanied them wherever they went. This was a miracle by which God showed that He favored the children of Israel; and this was so due to the merits of Miriam. The Jews not only lost their great prophetess, but with her death the spring dried up and no longer supplied them with water.
-835 — (1 Nisan, 2926) According to some sources, Jehoash ascended the throne as King of Judah.
-458 — (15 Adar I 3302) Ezra and one and a half thousand «Babylonian» Jews arrived in Jerusalem. Ezra’s goal, nicknamed Sofer (the Scribe), was to urge the Jerusalem Jews to reorganize their community life, which had fallen into decline after the death of the leaders Zerubbabel and Jeshua. Source. (Unfortunately, the confusion in dating is obvious. The time of Miriam’s death is given according to the book «Our People» by Yaakov Yitzhaks. Ezra lived in the 6th century BCE according to the website https://www.ejwiki.org)
-163 — (28 Adar II 3597) By decree of the Syrian King Antiochus V, the Jews of Judea were granted religious autonomy and religious persecution ceased in exchange for recognizing the authority of the Syrian king.
1475 — (20 Nisan 5235) As a result of a blood libel, the authorities of the city of Trento in Italy imprisoned all Jews. 17 Jews were subjected to continuous two-week long tortures; some of them could not withstand it and «confessed» to the ritual murder
1487 — (4th of Nisan, 5247) In Naples, Joseph Günzenhäuser printed “Psalms” with a commentary by Kimhi
1537 — (16th of Nisan, 5297) King Sigismund I of Poland issued a decree granting a monopoly of importation and publication of Hebrew books to the Helitz brothers who had established the first Hebrew printing press in Poland. The Jews resisted the edit since the Helitz brothers had converted to Christianity
1882 — (8th of Nisan, 5642) A pogrom begins in the largely Jewish town of Balta, in Podolia, Russia
1891 — (18th of Adar II, 5661) Jews expelled from Moscow by order of the governor-general
1917 — (5th of Nisan, 5677) (5 Nisan 5677) A decree from Ankara to expel Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Jewish families left for the settlements of Galilee and Samaria. A Jewish guard unit was left in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, which the Turks soon officially recognized
1928 — (7th of Nisan, 5688) The Presidium of the General Executive Committee of the USSR passed the decree «On the attaching for Komzet of free territory near the Amur River in the Far East for settlement of the working Jews.» The decree meant «a possibility of establishment of a Jewish administrative territorial unit on the territory of the called region
1932 — (20th of Adar II, 5692) The first Maccabiah athletic games took place in Tel Aviv with representatives from 14 countries
1938 — (25 Adar II 5698) Terrorist attack. Arabs attacked a car traveling from Haifa to Safed; 4 people, including 2 women and a child, were killed. Afterwards, the Arabs killed the driver and another female passenger who had fled into the mountains.
1942 — (10 Nisan 5702) The Holocaust. In the village of Khudzinka (Mostovsky district), 80 Jews from Odessa were shot.
1942 — (10th of Nisan, 5702) The first transport of French Jews to Auschwitz began
1943 — (21 Adar II 5703) A PALMACH platoon raided a British weapons depot on Mount Carmel, requisitioning 227 rifles and 22 machine guns. This was weaponry intended for the PALMACH to defend Palestine from Rommel’s troops, but since the danger of their invasion disappeared after the German defeat at El Alamein, the British took the weapons back as well. After the raid on the depot, the period of cooperation between the British army and the PALMACH ended
1944 — (4th of Nisan, 5704) The Irgun issued a statement today claiming credit for the attacks on police stations in Haifa, Jerusalem and Haifa. It also claimed that it had called ahead and left warnings about the impending attacks. The Irgun denied responsibility for shootings in Tel Aviv and blamed those on the Stern Gang
1948 — (17th of Adar, 5709) “Twenty-five Jews were killed and twenty-four were wounded in a thirty-hour fight” when 3,000 Arabs ambushed their convoy “south of Bethlehem in the Solomon’s Pools area”;
This afternoon “250 Arabs” armed “with two-inch mortars and light machine guns…ambushed a convoy of five truck and an armored car killing 45 Jews “at Kabriri, a village each of Nahariya
1948 — (17 Adar II 5708) War of Independence. After a two-day battle and British intervention, the defenders of the Nebi Daniel convoy (see March 27) laid down their arms and surrendered. 13 Jewish fighters were killed in the battle, and 40 were wounded.
1948 — (17 Adar II 5708) War of Independence. A four-hour battle of a convoy of seven trucks from Nahariya to Kibbutz Yehi’am. Only one broke through.
1949 — (27th of Adar II, 5708) James Grover McDonald, the first United States Ambassador to Israel presented his credentials today
1954 — (23 Adar II 5714) A retaliatory action for the shooting of an Israeli bus on March 17. In the Arab village of Nahalin near Bethlehem, a group of paratroop brigade fighters under the command of Ariel Sharon killed 9 soldiers of the Arab Legion.
1956 — (16 Nisan 5716) Railway service between Tel Aviv and Beersheba was opened.
1958 — (7 Nisan 5718) Work resumed on draining the swamps around Lake Hula on the border with Syria. The Syrians opened mortar and tank fire. IDF forces returned fire. The fighting continued for several days
1975 — (16th of Nisan, 5735) Two bus bombing in Jerusalem resulted in 13 casualties
2001 — (4 Nisan 5761) Terrorist attack. A suicide bomber detonated at a gas station in Neve Yamin. Teenagers died: 15-year-old N. Landkoren and 14-year-old E. Rosenberg.
2001 — (4 Nisan 5761) Terrorist attack. A bomb exploded near a school bus in Kfar Saba. 2 dead, about 10 wounded, including children
2002 — (15th of Nisan, 5762) “Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20, and Rachel’s father Yitzhak Kanner, 83, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the community of Elon Moreh in Samaria, entered their home and opened fire on its inhabitants. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.”
2006 — (28 Adar I 5766) Israel. Elections for the 17th Knesset. The number of representatives of the Israeli Labor Party was 19 MKs; Likud, after its split at the end of 2005, managed to get only 12 of its representatives into the Knesset; the new Kadima party, formed at the end of 2005 by a group of Knesset members who left Likud led by Prime Minister A. Sharon, joined by several MKs from the Israeli Labor Party led by S. Peres, formed the largest faction in the Knesset, comprising 29 people. Small parties still maintained their great influence; representatives of 12 political parties were elected to the 17th Knesset. This happened despite the electoral threshold being raised before the elections to 2% of the vote. The elections showed the disappointment of broad sections of the electorate in Israeli democracy and in the performance of the parliament. The voter turnout was the lowest in the country’s history — 62.3%. The percentage of voters in the Arab sector was significantly lower
2012 — (5 Nisan 5772) The IDF opened a highway in Samaria, known as the «Madison Road,» for Arab traffic. It had been closed to Arabs since 2000, with the start of the «Al-Aqsa Intifada,» and numerous terrorist attacks had occurred on it at various times. The highway starts at the Samaria Division base, then the interchange at the entrance to the Itamar settlement, ending at the Alon Moreh settlement. The reason for opening the road was the relative calm and reduction of terrorist activity in the area.
2013 — (17 Nisan 5773) The press service of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority issued a request for tourists to refrain from visiting the Ein Gedi reserve. Tens of thousands of visitors had already arrived at the reserve, and Ein Gedi was unable to continue accommodating new guests
People
1038 — (20th of Nisan, 4798) Ravi Hai Gaon passed away
1138 — (14 Nisan 4898) Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides) was born — one of the greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers. He died on December 13, 1204
1737 — (7th of Nisan, 5497) Joseph Suess Openheimer (Jud Suess), former confidential adviser to Karl Alexander, duke of Wuerttemgerg, was interrogated for the first time by a judicial examiner preparing an indictment on charges of high treason, violation of the constitution, and oppression of religion.” Although the charges were totally bogus, he would be convicted and hung
1797 — (1st of Nisan, 5557) Rabbi Saul Shiskes of Vilna, author of Shevil ha-Yashar passed away
1832 — (26th of Adar II, 5592) Lazarus Bendavid, German philosopher and reformer, died
1840 — (23 Adar II 5600) Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer) was born — a German colonial administrator, traveler, scientist, and explorer of Africa. On October 23, 1893, he was killed at the instigation of Arabs who hated him for his persecution of the slave trade
1849 — (5th of Adar II, 5609) James Darmesteter, French Orientalist, born
1880 — Rosina Bessie Levin (Lhevinne) was born in Kiev — a famous American pianist and teacher. She died in November 1976
1891 — (18th of Adar II, 5651) Edward Lawrence Levy of England won the first World Weightlifting Championship which had been organized by the International Weightlifting Federation
1903 — Rudolf Serkin was born in Austria — an outstanding American pianist. He died on May 8, 1991
1908 — (25th of Adar II, 5668) Birthdate of Isaak Kikoin the physicist who won both the Stalin and Lenin prizes and who played a key role in the development of the Soviet atomic program
1940 — (18th of Adar, 5700) Vintner and violinist Shmuel Cohen, an early settler of Rish Lezion and the husband of Minya Papirmeister who created Israel’s national anthem Hatikvah by providing a musical voice for the words of Naftali Herz passed away today
1970 — (20th of Adar II, 5730) Natan Alterman “an Israeli poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who — though never holding any elected office — was highly influential in Socialist Zionist politics, both before and after the formation of the state of Israel” passed away
1985 — (6th of Nisan, 5745): Marc Chagall passed away