History events
1216 — (23 Cheshvan 4977) Pope Honorius III confirmed the papal curia’s adherence to the decisions on protecting Jews according to Pope Callixtus II’s bull of 1120, «Sicut Judaeis»
1498 — (21th of Cheshvan, 5259) The Jews of Nuremberg were scheduled to be expelled today but for some reason it was postponed until “the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent” in 1499
1840 — (10th of Cheshvan, 5601) At Constantinople, Sultan Abd Al-Majid issued a firman declaring that Jews did not use blood in their ceremonies, and for any of the Sultan’s subjects to say the Jews did was not truth. Moses Montefiore met with the Sultan and helped to secure this Decree. The Sultan issued the firman to protect the Jews of Rhodes and in Damascus, who were being persecuted by this old anti-Semitic remark
1842 — (3st of Kislev, 5603) The first Jewish benevolent society in St. Louis was formed, Chesed v’Emeth («Mercy and Truth»). Its purpose was to aid indigent Jews. In December 1846 the group formally incorporated as the Hebrew Benevolent Society (H.B.S.)
1884 — (18th of Cheshvan, 5645) Hovevei Zion was founded in Kattowitz, Poland
1911 — (15 Cheshvan 5672) The Hashomer organization began guarding the village of Rehovot and its agricultural lands. It involved 5 mounted and 15 foot guards. Every night they guarded the vineyards and citrus plantations. Hashomer’s service cost the village 7 thousand francs a year more than the same service by Arabs. However, the robberies stopped. Hashomer was the precursor of the Haganah
1941 — (16 Cheshvan 5702) Shoah. Not far from Rovno, the Nazis shot 17,500 Jews — almost half of all the city’s residents.
1941 — (16 Cheshvan 5702) Shoah. In Kolomyia (Ivano-Frankivsk region), about 500 Jews were shot. In Yevpatoria, an order was issued to register Jews (a total of 750 people registered). The commandant’s office in Dzhankoy instructed the city’s mayor to create a Jewish ghetto (there were 44 Jews in Dzhankoy)
1942 — (26th of Cheshvan, 5703) Нolocaust. The Nazis executed 12,000 Jews from Minsk
1942 — (26 Cheshvan 5703) Shoah. In Haisyn (Vinnytsia region), 1,000 Jews were shot. The same number of Jews were shot in Kolomyia. From Peremyshliany (Lviv region), about 2,500 Jews were deported to Belzec and about 60 sick Jews were killed on the spot. At the same time, 821 Jews were deported to Belzec from Rudky and Komarno (Lviv region)
1944 — (20th of Cheshvan, 5705) Two members of Lehi (the Stern Gang) – Eliyahu Hakim and Eliyahu Bet Zuri murdered Lord Moyne in Cairo. This led to what some call, The Hunting Season, which the name given to the Haganah’s campaign to curtail the activities of Irgun and Lehi
1948 — (4th of Cheshvan, 5709) War for independence. Barbara was captured by troops of the Negev, Giv’ati and Yiftach brigades today during Operation Yoav; Barbara (Arabic: برْبره) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Gaza Subdistrict located 17 km northeast of Gaza city, in the vicinity of modern Ashkelon
1952 — (18th of Cheshvan, 5713) The Jerusalem Post reported that the Knesset passed the first reading of a measure recognizing the World Zionist Organization as the agency authorized to coordinate the activities in Israel of all Jewish corporate bodies and associations engaged in the development of the country and the integration of immigrants
1956 — (2st of Kislev, 5717) Sinai Campai. President Eisenhower sent a message to Ben Gurion demanding that Israeli forces stop fighting immediately and withdraw from the Sinai
1958 — (23th of Cheshvan, 5719) Syria resumed its artillery bombardment of the Galilee, while Israeli workers were involved in a massive project draining Lake Huleh to obtain more agricultural land for the country. Under orders from IDF Chief of Staff Haim Liaskov, the Israelis fired back at their attackers
1959 — (5 Cheshvan 5720) The metro on the «Carmelit» line opened in Haifa
1961 — (27 Cheshvan 5722) A discussion was held at the UN of the Israeli government’s policy regarding Arab refugees.
1970 — (7 Cheshvan 5731) Terrorist attack at the Tel Aviv bus station. One person died
1971 — (18 Cheshvan 5732) War of Attrition. The first direct incursion into Israeli airspace by aircraft piloted by Soviet pilots. Two MiG-25s flew over the northern Negev.
1977 — (25th of Chehsvan, 5738) PLO gunners fired katyusha rockets from across the Lebanese border at the seaside town of Nahariya killing two, one of whom was a Holocaust survivor and mortally wounding another
1990 — (18 Cheshvan 5751) Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Kach party, was killed in New York. The killer was an American of Arab origin
1995 — (13th of Cheshvan, 5756) In his first court appearance on Yigal Amir, 25, asserted that he was required to kill Mr. Rabin under religious law because the Prime Minister was betraying Jewish lives and land to the enemy
2006 — (15 Cheshvan 5767) Mass riots organized by Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem in connection with the «Pride Parade» of sexual minorities scheduled for November 10. Police detained 25 participants; four police officers and a photographer for the newspaper Haaretz sustained light injuries.
2023 — (22 Cheshvan 5784) War with Gaza. Day thirty-one. A month after the massacre carried out by Arabs, a new observation post, «Nahal Oz,» opened at the Gaza Division headquarters. New female soldiers took up combat duty, restoring round-the-clock observation of Israel’s southern borders in that sector. The IDF completed the encirclement of Gaza City. An IDF representative again addressed the residents of the Gaza Strip in Arabic, urging them to evacuate south for their own safety. Rocket attacks on northern Israel
2023 — (22 Cheshvan 5784). Terrorist attack. Near the Flower Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, a 16-year-old Arab attacked police officers with a knife. Corporal Elischeva Rose Aida Lubin of the Border Police (MAGAV) was killed
2025 — (15 Cheshvan 5786) The IDF began the process of demobilizing two brigades and two reserve battalions that had served on the northern border and in Judea and Samaria. Their places were to be taken by regular-service units that had completed combat operations in the Gaza Strip
People
1543 — (9 Kislev 5304) A note at the end of one of the books belonging to the philologist, author of many grammatical works and dictionaries, and printing-house proofreader Elia Levita: «On Tuesday, the sixth of November, in the year 304, I began teaching in the house of Don Francisco to a gentile named Señor Ioann Maria, one lesson a day for a fee of one lira. 30 a month, and if another non-Jew studies with us at the same time, they will increase the fee»
1593 — (11th of Cheshvan, 5354) Rabbi Abraham Menachem Rapoport author of Minchah Beluah, passed away
1643 — (24th of Cheshvan, 5404) Abraham Azulai, cabalistic author, died
1836 — C. Lombroso was born — an Italian psychiatrist and criminologist. Died October 19, 1909
1839 — (29th of Cheshvan, 5600) Rabbi Hayim Rapoport, of Ostrowiec passes away. Rapoport was a member of a distinguished family of Jewish scholars. He was the author of a collection of Responsa called Maxim Chayyim
1870 — (12 Cheshvan 5631) Herbert Louis Samuel was born — a British Jew, diplomat, and the first High Commissioner of Palestine after Great Britain acquired the Mandate to administer it. Died February 2, 1963
1911 — Jacqueline Rebecca Piatigorsky (de Rothschild) was born — one of the strongest female chess players in the United States, an organizer of chess tournaments. Died in July 2012.
1940 — Alla Ilyinichna Surikova (Alla Isaakovna Zaslavskaya) was born — a director
2002 — (1st of Kislev, 5763) Sgt.-Maj. Madin Grifat, 23, of Beit Zarzir was killed when a mine exploded during a routine patrol northeast of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip
2007 — (25th of Cheshavn, 5768) Staff Sergeant Yariv Amitai of Moshav Hazor’im was killed in a Jeep accident along the border with Gaza