History events
-331 — (21st of Kislev, 3431) According to the Talmud, Simeon the Just destroyed the Samaritan Temple at Mount Gerizim.
1355 — (15 Kislev 5116) Charles IV permitted the City Council of Worms to grant Jews the right of residence. In May 1377, the Jewish community of Worms, numbering thirty-six people, obligated itself to the city council to pay «voluntary» taxes in the amount of 20,000 guilders
1521 — (20st of Kislev, 5282) All Jewish wine was dumped by Arabs and heavy fines imposed on the Jewish community of Jerusalem. The Arabs blamed the Jewish use of wine for a severe water shortage
1829 — (24 Cheshvan 5590) By the highest decree of Emperor Nicholas I, Jews were ordered to be expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol.
1835 — (28 Cheshvan 5596) Decree of Emperor Nicholas I on allocating to Jews five plots of free land in Siberia — in Tobolsk Governorate and Omsk Oblast — for the creation of agricultural colonies there. The inspirer and ideologist of the campaign to resettle Jews in the region was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Count Bludov, who believed that the allocation of land «for the tillage of Jews, from which the natural shrewdness of this people and the convenience of having inexpensive workers there promises special advantages for a region so often in need of assistance.»
1836 — (11 Kislev 5597) Decree by which future Jewish colonists of Siberia received the right to protection and maintenance while traveling (May 15)
1929 — (17nd of Cheshvan, 5690) Today, Gertrude Berg’s popular radio program, The Goldbergs, about an upwardly mobile American Jewish family debuted on NBC radio. The Goldbergs went off the air in 1955
1931 — (10th of Kislev, 5692) Anti-Semitic attacks occurred today in Vilna, its suburbs and in the neighboring towns of Lida and Trock and attacks against the Jews were also carried out in Suvalk, Province of Grodno
1939 — (8 Kislev 5700) Shoah. Jews of German-occupied Poland were forbidden to have bank deposits exceeding 2,000 zlotys
1940 — (19nd of Cheshvan, 5701) Britain announced a more stringent policy aimed at Jews trying to enter Palestine illegally. ….. Jews found on ships running the British blockade will not be allowed to enter Palestine. They will be taken to an undetermined colonial destination where they will be imprisoned until the end of the war. At that time, there final destination, which will not be Palestine or the site of the imprisonment will be determined
1941 — (30th of Cheshvan, 5702) Нolocaust. Approximately 7000 Jews from Minsk, Belorussia, are killed at nearby Tuchinka
1941 — (30 Cheshvan 5702) Shoah. Card index of prisoners of the Riga ghetto as of this day. a) Children under 14: boys — 2,794; girls — 2,858. b) Able-bodied from 14 to 65: men — 6,143; women — 9,507. c) Not able-bodied: men — 2,069; women — 6,231. Total: 29,602.
1942 — (11 Kislev 5703) Shoah. The Jewish action in Lvov ended. During the action, 5,000 Jews were deported to Belzec and 300 were killed on the spot. From the Pechera camp (Vinnitsa Oblast), the Romanians handed over 500 Jews to the Germans for use as laborers.
1944 — (4 Kislev 5705) Yishuv. In order to divert the blow of the British authorities after the assassination of Lord Moyne, the leadership of the Haganah decided to cooperate with the British police in the struggle against the right-wing Jewish underground organizations LEHI and ETZEL.
1944 — (4 Kislev 5705) Resistance member Haviva Reik was shot by the Nazis. A kibbutz 8 km from Hadera was named in her honor, «Lahavot-Haviva.» On the Israeli map one can also find another place named in her honor, «Giv’at-Haviva,» near her kibbutz Ma’anit
1948 — (18 Cheshvan 5709) The Politburo and the Council of Ministers adopted a decision «On the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee»: the MGB of the USSR was tasked to «immediately dissolve the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, since the facts show that this committee is a center of anti-Soviet propaganda and regularly supplies anti-Soviet information to foreign intelligence agencies.»
1948 — (18nd of Cheshvan, 5709) The first preliminary armistice talks begin when William E. Riley, chief UN truce observer, meets separately with Israel Foreign Office officials and Egyptian commander Fouad Sadeh Bey
1949 — (28nd of Cheshvan, 5710) The Jewish population of Israel reached one million
1964 — (15 Kislev 5725) The Second Vatican Council, headed by Pope Paul VI, condemned anti-Semitism and declared that the Jewish people as a whole should not be blamed for the death of Jesus.
1977 — (10 Kislev 5738) Egyptian President A. Sadat visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. Sadat’s speech in the Knesset: «I have come to you today to renew life and establish peace.»
2000 — (22 Cheshvan 5761) Terror attack. In Gaza, Hamas militants fired on a school bus with children. Two were killed, 9 were wounded.
2006 — (29 Cheshvan 5767) In Jerusalem, another ceremonial procession around the gates of the Temple Mount took place, dedicated to the beginning of the Jewish month of Kislev. 3,500 people took part in the procession. Suddenly, stun grenades flew at the participants from the roofs of the Muslim quarter of the Old City. Three Arabs were detained by police.
2007 — (10 Kislev 5768) Israel. An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter scale occurred. The epicenter was in the northern part of the Dead Sea.
2012 — (6 Kislev 5773) Terror attack. In Tel Aviv, an Arab blew up a passenger bus; more than 20 Israelis were wounded
2012 — (6th of Kislev, 5773) As of midnight, ….. Operation Pillar of Defense enters its seventh day with the Israeli government holding off on a ground offensive in the hope that talks in Cairo will lead to an end to massive Hamas assault on its citizens; Those living in southern Israel organize demonstrations against plans for a cease-fire one of which is to take place in Kiryat Malachi where three Israelis had been murdered by terrorist rockets and one at Ashdod
2013 — (17 Kislev 5774) The second test of the anti-missile system «Sharvit Ksamim» («Magic Wand») was completed. «Sharvit Ksamim» is designed to intercept medium- and long-range missiles, as well as enemy aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.
2015 — (8 Kislev 5776) After 30 years in an American prison, Israeli intelligence officer Jonathan Pollard was released. Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence employee, began working for Mossad in 1981. In 1985, an investigation was launched against him. Wishing to avoid arrest, Pollard and his wife arrived at the Israeli embassy, but the doors turned out to be closed, and FBI agents arrested him right at the Israeli representation. Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment (see December 30, 2020).
2022 — (26 Cheshvan 5783) The District Court in Lod began hearing the case of Arab employees of the cellular company «Cellcom» accused of transmitting strategically important information to the terrorist group Hamas and planning sabotage in the event of military action.
2023 — (7 Kislev 5784) War with Gaza. Day forty-five. Senior Sergeant Eitan Dishon, 21, Senior Sergeant Dvir Barazani, 20, and Sergeant Inon Tamir, 20, fell in battle. The IDF facilitated the transport of infants from the incubator of Shifa Hospital in Gaza to Egypt for continued treatment. The laser air-defense system «Magen Or» («Shield of Light»), in service with the IDF, carried out the first combat interception in history using a laser, downing a mortar shell fired from Lebanon. An air-raid alert was declared in the center and north of the country (Hezbollah fired about 25 rockets and three loitering munitions (suicide drones) at northern Israel). Forty-five days after the October 7 massacre, the communal dining hall reopened in Kibbutz Be’eri for the first time.
2023 — (7 Kislev 5784) The American technology corporation NVIDIA announced the early, two months ahead of schedule, initial launch of the supercomputer Israel-1, intended for scientific development in the field of artificial intelligence. The Israel-1 computer is one of the most powerful in the world, with a performance of 8 exaflops for the field of artificial intelligence and 130 petaflops for other scientific work (visualization of nuclear research, meteorological research, etc.)
People
1631 — (5 Kislev 5392) Shmuel Eliezer Edels died — rabbi, one of the greatest commentators on the Talmud and a liturgical poet. Born in Poznan in 1555. He came from a distinguished rabbinic family. He was married to the daughter of the rabbi of Poznan, Rabbi Moshe Ashkenazi Halperin, one of the greatest halakhic authorities. His mother-in-law Edel was a wealthy woman; at her own expense, during 1585–1605, she maintained a yeshiva headed by Edels. Under the nickname Edels, derived from his mother-in-law’s name, the head of the yeshiva became known to the Jewish world
1657 — (24th of Kislev, 5418) Manasseh ben Israel, died
1729 — (10th of Kislev, 5490) Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, a British physician and poet, the first Jew to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (in 1727), died
1860 — (6th of Kislev, 5621) Isaac M. Jost, Jewish historian, died
1894 — (24nd of Cheshvan, 5655) Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer and pianist, died
1896 — (15th of Kislev, 5657) Birthdate of Russian author Yevgenia Ginzburg
1903 — (1 Kislev 5664) Zoya Moiseevna Zadunayskaya was born — children’s writer and translator. She died on June 11, 1983
1925 — (3th of Kislev, 5686) In Moscow, Rachel Messerer-Plisetskaya, a silent-film actress and Mikahil Plisetski, a diplomat and engineer gave birth to “ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya
1933 — (2nd of Kislev) Rabbi Moses Mordecai Epstein, author of Levush Mordecai, passed away today
1934 — (13 Kislev 5695) L. Polugaevsky was born — two-time USSR chess champion, winner of many major tournaments. He died on August 30, 1995
1944 — (4th of Kislev, 5705) Haviva Reik was captured and executed by the Nazis and members of the Ukrainian Waffen SS. ….. Born in 1914, she was one of four volunteers from the Yishuv in Eretz Israel who parachuted into Slovakia to help the uprising against the Nazis. In September 1944 she succeeded in helping the Jews who were left in Banska Bystresis. When it fell they moved into the mountains with other Jewish partisans. Kibbutz Lahavot Haviva and the Givat Haviva center are dedicated to her memory
2000 — (22nd of Cheshvan, 5761) Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of Kfar Darom, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5 children, were injured
2024 — (19 Cheshvan 5785) War with Gaza. Day four hundred and eleventh. In battle in the north of the sector, reserve Senior Sergeant Roi Sason, 21, was killed; two officers were seriously wounded. Operation «Northern Arrows.» In battle in southern Lebanon, reserve Senior Sergeant Eitan Ben Ami, 22, and Sergeant Gur Kehati, 20, were killed.