History events
1510 — (21nd of Kislev, 5271) The Jews were expelled from Naples
1584 — (1nd of Tevet, 5345)The Sultan ordered an investigation into the number of synagogues in Safed. In his letter to the local administration, he wrote, «in the town of Safed there are only seven sacred mosques. But the Jews who in olden times had three synagogues have now thirty-two synagogues, and they have built their buildings very high.»
1920 — (5681, 12 Kislev) Civil War. Pogrom in the town of Bolshiye Gorodyatichi, Mozyr district. Of the 85 Jewish residents, 72 were killed, including 55 corpses found beheaded. Pieces of flesh and brains were found on sheds and the walls of houses
1924 — (26th of Cheshvan, 5685) Herzliya was founded as a moshav. It has since become a flourishing town on the Mediterranean coast
1933 — (5 Kislev 5694) North of Emek Hefer, the religious settlement of Kfar Haroeh was founded
1938 — (29th of Cheshvan, 5699) It was reported today that, ….. “The movement started only a week ago by Palestine Jewry to adopt children from Germany is spreading with amazing rapidity. Following a suggestion made by Israel Rokach, Mayor of Tel Aviv…to members of the Jewish Women’s Labor Federation” have already “volunteered to adopt refugee children.” The National council of Palestine Jewry had set a goal of adopting 5,000 children but given the quick positive response the goal will be met and exceeded
1939 — (11 Kislev 5700) Shoah. All Jews of the General Government of Poland were ordered to wear the «Star of David.»
1941 — (3 Kislev 5702) Shoah. In Drohobych (Lvov region) 300–400 Jews were shot, in Yevpatoria — 650 Jews, in Poltava — 1,538, in Zolotonosha more than 2,000 Jews, in the villages of Amansha and Munus Yevreysky (Fraydorf district, Crimea) — 188 and 104 Jews respectively
1942 — (14 Kislev 5703) Shoah. The Jewish Agency, based on the testimonies of a group of Jews from Palestine who were caught by the war in Poland and managed to return home, issued a report about what was happening in Poland; demonstrations and rallies took place throughout the country
1942 — (14 Kislev 5703) Shoah. From Zholkva (Nesterov, Lvov region) 1,700 Jews were deported to Belzec and about 800 were killed on the spot
1945 — (18 Kislev 5706) The ship «Berl Katznelson» with illegal repatriates was seized by the British
1947 — (10nd of Kislev, 5708) Eliezer Sukenik an outstanding archaeologist and text expert ….. on the faculty of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University first received word of the existence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The documents, dating between 200 BC and AD 70, had been accidentally discovered earlier that winter by two Bedouin shepherds in the vicinity of Qumran. Sukenik was able to purchase three of the scrolls they had found, the War Scroll, the Thanksgiving Scroll and a small Scroll of Isaiah. The Great Scroll of Isaiah had already been purchased the Metropolitan Stephen, of St. Mark’s Church. In one of the strange twists of fate, Yigal Yadin, Sukenik’s son, would arrange for the purchase of the Scroll of Isaiah and three other scrolls in 1954. The purchase began with a simple newspaper ad in the Wall Street Journal, “Miscellaneous For Sale…Four Dead Sea Scrolls.” Yadin knew the importance of the items and arranged for a loan of a quarter of a million dollars (a large sum in those days, especially for the infant state of Israel) to bring them back to their ancestral home. The secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls are still being unlocked by scholars to this day
1948 — (21th of Cheshvan, 5709) During the War for Independence, Israeli forces launched Operation Lot in the eastern Negev and Arava; Israel forms a reserve forced made up of men aged 40 to 45
1949 — (2nd of Kislev, 5710) Israeli forces made their way through the Negev Desert to the isolated outpost at Sodom (the Biblical Sodom) on the Dead Sea which had been cut off from any overland contact for more than six months. Their success in reaching Sodom extended the boundaries of the new state of Israel 20 miles further south and east
1950 — (14 Kislev 5711) Israel. Due to a shortage of milk, the government decided to provide it only to children.
1950 — (14 Kislev 5711) Israel. The Ministry of Transport announced that according to statistics: there are 31,284 automobiles in the country, of which 12,700 are for personal use, 1,227 trucks, 136 taxis, 1,330 buses, 7,117 motorcycles.
1983 — (17 Kislev 5744) A prisoner exchange took place with the PLO: 6 soldiers: A. Kornfeld, R. Cohen, R. Hazan, B. Gilboa, A. Montebelisky, E. Abutbul — for 4,700 Arabs held in the «Ansar» camp, and 65 who were in Israeli prisons. The negotiations lasted almost a year
2000 — (25th of Cheshvan, 5761) A powerful car bomb killed two Israelis and wounded scores during rush hour in the coastal city of Hadera this evening
2001 — (8 Kislev 5762) Israeli Air Force helicopters eliminated Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a Hamas leader; in August 2000, while trying to arrest him, 3 fighters of «Duvdevan» died — Niv Yaakobi, Roy Even, Liron Sharbit.
2004 — (10 Kislev 5765) Former Chief of the General Staff, commander of a tank division on the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War, Rafael Eitan (Raful), died tragically. Rafael Eitan was 75 years old. As a PALMAH fighter he took part in the War of Independence. In battle near the San Simon Monastery in Jerusalem he was seriously wounded in the head. During the Sinai campaign he served in the airborne troops, was wounded again, and was awarded a decoration for courage. During the Yom Kippur War he commanded a division operating against Syrian forces on the Golan Heights. Later he was commander of the Northern Military District. In 1978-1982 he headed the IDF General Staff
2005 — (21th of Cheshvan, 5766) The IDF unveiled the tombstones of five soldiers including two American volunteers, ….. who fell in a battle for Latrun in the War of Independence at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery after positively identifying their remains which had been resting in a mass grave. The five soldiers being honored were Pvt. Menachem “Mendel’ Math, Cpl. Shlomo Berber, Pvt. Yehuda «Jerry» Kaplan, Pvt. Ya’akov Shnawiss (who changed his name to Sheleg Lavan), and Pvt. Moshe Hessman
2006 — (2 Kislev 5767) In the morning, when the children of the lower grades of the Kaliningrad Jewish school «Or Avner» came to school, they saw that a window pane had been broken. In the classroom lay a metal object with which the glass had been broken, with an attached note: «For the purity of the nation.» The leaflet also depicted a swastika and a Star of David in a trash can.
2007 — (13 Kislev 5768) Around midnight, another earthquake occurred in Israel – the second within a week. As on November 20, the strength of the tremors was relatively small – 4.1 on the Richter scale. But this time the epicenter was in the Coastal Plain. The tremors were felt by residents of Rehovot, Modiin, Rishon LeZion, Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, and its surroundings.
2007 — (13 Kislev 5768) The settlement of Elad southeast of Petah Tikva received city status. It was founded in 1998.
2010 — (16 Kislev 5771) The Knesset, by a majority vote (65 against 33), approved a law according to which a nationwide referendum is required to cede territories of Israel. The law provided that if more than 60 Knesset members vote for ceding territories, the question is submitted to the people’s decision.
2022 — (29 Shevat 5783) Terrorist attack. Two bomb explosions packed with many small shrapnel elements at bus stops in Jerusalem. A 16-year-old youth was killed, more than 20 people were wounded. In the cities of the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria, and in the Gaza Strip, Arabs handed out sweets, celebrating this double terrorist attack
2023 — (10 Kislev 5784) War with Gaza. Day forty-eight. The IDF continued to operate in Gaza. The 215th Artillery Brigade «Amud HaEsh,» and aviation attacked terrorist targets in the Jabalia area. The «Golani» Brigade, with the support of aviation and tanks, eliminated several groups of terrorists in the north of Gaza. Fighters of the 828th Brigade discovered a tunnel shaft located inside a mosque. Fighters of the 924th Engineering Battalion of the 12th Brigade and the 14th Brigade discovered shafts in the Beit Hanoun area and a weapons depot and destroyed them. Throughout the day, early warning signals sounded about shelling of the country’s territory from Gaza and Lebanon
2025 — (5 Kislev 5786) Aitam Ali Tabtabai was eliminated — Hezbollah’s chief of staff, a key operative and a representative of the generation of its founders. AMAN had been collecting data about him for decades. The operation was prepared so as to ensure a precise strike with minimal collateral damage. Only one hour passed from identification to the attack
People
1777 — (23rd of Cheshvan) Rabbi Aaron Katzenellenbogen of Brisk, author of Minhat Aharon passed
1848 — (27th of Cheshvan): Rabbi Meir Benjamin Danon, author of Be’er ba Sadeh, passed away
1877 — Aron Vainshtein was born — revolutionary, one of the leaders of the BUND, died 12 March 1938
1886 — (25th of Cheshvan, 5647) Leopold Kompert, ghetto poet and novelist, died
1889 — (29 Cheshvan 5650) N. Baru was born — a well-known Jewish political and public figure, economist, and sociologist
1911 — (2nd of Kislev, 5672) Eighty-five year old Rabbi Jacob Hamburger, “the sole author and editor of the first explicitly Jewish Encyclopedia” passed away today
1926 — (17nd of Kislev, 5687) At Kibbutz Ein Harod, Noach Hantman, a farmer and poet and Yehudit Volwelsky, a social activist gave birth to Rafi Eitan, the leader of the Mossad operation that led to the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichman
1950 — (14 Kislev 5711) «For espionage and hostile nationalist activity,» journalist Miriam (Mirra) Aizenshtadt (née Kazarinskaya) was executed. Literary pseudonym Zhezlenova. Her main guilt was collecting information about Jewish heroes of the USSR. She passed a list of 85 names to the West, where it was published
2000 — (25th of Cheshvan, 5761) Lt. Edward Matchnik, 21, of Beersheba, was killed in an explosion at the District Coordination Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip; Sixty-nine year old Clarence Yale Palitz, Jr. the Chairman of the Board of Financial Federal Corporation and patron of the arts who is survived by his wife Anka passed away today