History events
-1311 BCE — (1 Nisan, 2450) On the first day of Nisan in the second year after the Exodus from Egypt, the construction of the Holy Tabernacle was completed. When Aaron placed the first sacrifice on the altar, God sent a fiery flame from heaven that consumed all the pieces of meat. The entire people witnessed this awe‑inspiring sign of God’s presence in the Tabernacle and bowed down in worship
-19 — (12th of Shevat, 3741) The Temple “built” by King Herod was dedicated
1239 — (28th of Adar, 4999) With the Edict of Valencia, Spanish King James I validated privileges of the Jews of Aragon. The Jewish courts (Bet din) were authorized to try all cases except capital offenses
1328 — (24th of Adar, 5088) Massacre of Jews at Navarre
1766 — (25th of Adar, 5526) “The Sefardim congregation of London passed a resolution that a Sefardi marrying an Ashkenazi has forfeited his claim on congressional charities
1781 — (9th of Adar, 5541) James Wright, the British Colonial Governor ordered the Jews of the Georgia to leave; accusing them of disloyalty to his majesty by supporting the revolution. The order was never carried out
1816 — (6th of Adar, 5576) The Jews were expelled from the Free City of Lubeck, Germany at the instance of the local guilds. This was part of the reactionary backlash that followed the defeat of Napoleon a year earlier. Many of these Jews finally found refuge in the German of city of Moisling. After “a period of adjustment” where the citizens of Moisling determined how many Jews would live in their city and under what conditions, the government provided a house for a rabbi and constructed a building that the Jews were allowed to use as a synagogue if they paid “a moderate annual rent.”
1817 — (18 Adar I, 5577) A circular from Russian Minister of Religious Affairs Prince Golitsyn stated: “Regarding accusations against Jews of killing Christian children for blood, His Imperial Majesty has declared to all provincial governors the royal will that henceforth Jews shall not be accused of murdering Christian children without any evidence, based solely on the prejudice that they supposedly need Christian blood.” The circular was distributed to governors
1897 — (2th of Adar-1, 5657) A two-day conference begins in Vienna with members of the Zionist circles of Vienna, Berlin, Breslau and Galicia. Herzl’s proposal of a general Zionist Congress is adopted with the reservation that the cooperation of the Russian Zionists will be obtained. München is chosen as the city for the congress
1937 — (23 Adar I, 5697) An Arab severely wounded (and, according to some reports, later killed) a Jewish man praying at the Western Wall. Several hours later, members of the Etzel militia killed one Arab and wounded another in the nearby Rehavia neighborhood
1938 — (3 Adar II, 5698) The Palestine Post reported that the Tel Aviv publishing house Masada had issued the first Who’s Who directory in Palestine
1940 — (26th of Adar-1, 5700) “Three leaders of the Jewish Labor party were sentenced to three months in prison today on charges of organizing recent demonstrations against the British government that took place in Tel Aviv
1942 — (17 Adar I, 5702) Shoah. In the villages of Lubyanka and Voroshylovka (Ursolovo), Veselinovsky District, Nikolaev Oblast, self‑defense units shot 330 and 150 Jews from Odessa, respectively
1948 — (25 Adar I, 5708) War of Independence. The Arab Liberation Army under Qawuqji crossed into Eretz Israel via the Allenby Bridge over the Jordan River. It actively operated in the early phase of the war, attacking individual Jewish settlements and kibbutzim, including Mishmar ha‑Emek and Ein ha‑Shofet
1949 — (5th of Adar, 5709) On the second day of Operation Uvda “the Negev Brigade travelled to Sde Avraham and began to clear land for an airfield there” and that night the “7th Brigade reinforcements from the Gahal platoon arrived by air in the newly cleared airfield” carrying “supplies and fuel vital to continue the operation.”
1957 — (3th of Adar, 5717) Israel withdrew its troops from the Sinai Peninsula. The withdrawal followed the October, 1956 war with Egypt
1969 — (16th of Adar, 5729) Twenty-nine people, most of whom were students were injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in the cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; One person was injured when a terrorist exploded a grenade at a bank in Al Bireh
1975 — (21st of Adar, 5735) Eleven people were killed and twelve more were injured during a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv
2008 — (29th of Adar-1, 5768) Eight people were killed and nine others were wounded this evening when a terrorist infiltrated a Jerusalem yeshiva and opened fire
2012 — (12 Adar I, 5772) The Eretz Israel Museum opened an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of football in Eretz Israel. Tradition holds that the first organized football games took place in Jaffa and Rehovot in 1912
2013 — (24th of Adar, 5773) “Agriculture Ministry workers armed with pesticides went into action at first light today morning, distributing both aerial and ground sprays in the area where millions of locusts descended upon southern Israel from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula the day before.”
2014 — (4th of Adar-1, 5774) Today’s decision “in Crimea’s parliament to hold a referendum on March 16 asking whether the semi-autonomous region should become part of Russia took some members of the peninsula’s 17,000-strong Jewish community by surprise.” (an absolute lie)
2014 — (4 Adar I, 5774) A bypass highway was opened near Haifa
2015 — (15 Adar I, 5775) Terrorist attack. In the morning, a car struck five people near a tram stop in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Border police opened fire on the vehicle. The driver, an Arab from the Ras al‑Amud area, was seriously wounded
2016 — (26th of Adar-1, 5776) “A Torah scroll from the synagogue in the northern Italian town of Biella has been identified as probably the oldest in the world still owned and used by a Jewish community” is scheduled to “returned to the Biella synagogue at a ceremony” today
People
690 — (19 Adar I, 4450) Julian of Toledo died at the age of 48. A historian, statesman, theologian, and Latin ecclesiastical writer, he was venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church (feast day: March 8) and served as Archbishop of Toledo (680–690). He came from a family of Jews who had converted to Christianity before his birth. He encouraged Visigoth kings to persecute Jews who had not been baptized. For example, in 681, presiding over the Twelfth Council of Toledo, he pressured King Erwig to adopt several anti‑Jewish laws.
1531 — (17 Adar I, 5291) Pedro Arias de Ávila died at the age of 63. A Spanish statesman, conquistador, administrator of the first European colonies in America, explorer of Central America, and a marrano.
1876 — (10 Adar I, 5636) David Ben Haïm Aaron, an Israeli painter, was born in Germany. He was one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in religious Zionism and a co‑founder of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He died on 11 January 1944.
1896 — Rabbi Yitzchak Elchonon Spector, a public figure, died. He was born in 1817 in the town of Rosy, Grodno Governorate.
1900 — (5 Adar II, 5660) A. Shlonsky, a Hebrew poet, writer, and translator, was born. He died on 18 May 1973.
1901 — Mark Donskoy, a film director and playwright, was born. He died in 1981.
1909 — Stanisław Jerzy Lec, a Polish poet and satirist, was born into a family of baptized Jews. He died in Warsaw in 1966.
1914 — (8 Adar I, 5674) Ilex Beller, a painter known for his depictions of East European shtetls before the Holocaust, was born in Poland. He died in 2005.
1934 — (19 Adar I, 5694) M. Zhvanetsky, a writer, was born. He died on 6 November 2020.
1940 — (26th of Adar-1, 5700) Vladimir Jabotinsky, president of the New Zionist Organization of the World lectures on «The Fate of, Jewry» at Manhattan Center
1951 — (28th of Adar-1, 5711) Ethel and Julius Rosenberg go on trial charged with espionage for providing secret information concerning the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union. In this case the defendants, the prosecutor and the Judge will all be Jews. But right wing America fixated on the ethnicity of the defendants and used it to equate beings Jewish with being anti-American
1969 — (16th of Adar, 5729) Yonatan Netanyahu wrote to his parents, «In another week I’ll be 23. On me, on us, the young men of Israel, rests the duty of keeping our country safe. This is a heavy responsibility, which matures us early… I do not regret what I have done and what I’m about to do. I’m convinced that what I am doing is right. I believe in myself, in my country and in my future»
1976 — (4th of Adar II, 5736) «Slapsie» Maxie Rosenbloom light-heavyweight box champion from 1932 to 1934 passed away at the age of 71. Rosenbloom boxed during a period when Jews dominated the ring. In 1933, during Maxie’s reign as light-heavyweight champion, Jewish boxers were the champions in four out of the eight weight classes
2024 — (26 Adar I, 5784) Gaza War, Day 152. In the southern Gaza Strip, Staff Sergeant David Sason, age 21, from Ganot Adar, was killed. Thirteen soldiers were wounded in various parts of the Strip