History events
1129 — (27th of Tishrei, 4890) The tombstone of Elijah ben Simon dated October 12, 1129 is among the oldest evidence of the Jewish settlement in Nuremberg goes back to the 12th century
1285 — (12 Cheshvan 5046) A blood libel was leveled against the Jews of Munich; they were accused of murdering a Christian child. A mob attacked the Jews, who took refuge in the synagogue. The rioters set fire to the synagogue, and 180 people died in the flames. The names of 68 of them are listed in the record book of the Jewish community compiled in 1296.
1474 — (1 Cheshvan 5235) In Ferrara, the work of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, «Nofet Tzufim,» a treatise on rhetoric, was copied. It is unclear whether this manuscript was used as a model for typesetting a similar book in Mantua by the printer Abraham Conat, or conversely, was copied from the printed book.
1492 — (21 Tishrei 5253) Columbus’s discovery of America.
1806 — (30 Tishrei 5567) The French writer Chateaubriand left Jerusalem: «It is striking that the true, legitimate owners of Judea are slaves and strangers in their own land; it is striking how, under such a heavy yoke, they do not cease to await the coming of a king-liberator.»
1901 — (29 Tishrei 5662) The Zionist Federation of Switzerland was founded in Basel.
1923 — (2 Cheshvan 5684) The newspaper Haaretz reported a sharp increase in the number of Jewish students in institutions of higher education in Ukraine. «Jews make up 39.3 percent of the total number of students in all institutions of the Ukrainian education system,» the report said. «In universities, mainly technical ones, the number of Jewish students reaches 26.6 percent. In workers’ faculties, Jews make up 19.8 percent.»
1927 — (16 Tishrei 5688) A women’s branch of the ORT organization (Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among Jews in Russia) was founded in Brooklyn. ORT had existed in the United States since 1922, but only men studied there
1940 — (10th of Tishrei, 5701) The Nazis executed 3,400 Jews in Galicia; On this Jewish Day of Atonement, German loudspeakers in Warsaw, Poland, announce that all Jews in the city must move to the Jewish ghetto by the end of the month
1941 — (21th of Tishrei, 5702) Нolocaust. In Stanislawow, Eastern Galicia, all of the Jews living in the district, were driven out of their homes into the center of the town where massive graves had been dug. SS troops and Ukrainian militia commence machine gunning of the gathered populace. Estimates of the number of Jews murdered range from a low of 6,000 to a high of 12,000.
1941 — (21 Tishrei 5702) Shoah. Sonderkommando 11a shot 150 Jews in Golaya Pristan (Kherson region). In Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislav), the security police shot 7,300 Jews; in Kolomyia, 2,850 Jews.
1942 — (1 Cheshvan 5703) Shoah. The deportation of 3,000 Jews from Mohyliv-Podilskyi (Vinnytsia region) to the Pechery camp on the Southern Bug began. In Ostroh (Rivne region), Jews from the surrounding area were concentrated. In Krasnoarmiysk (Donetsk region), 8 Jews were shot
1945 — (5rd of Cheshvan, 5706) Forty women rescued from Nazi concentration camps were the first to be sheltered in the new sixty-bed wing opened” today “at the Women’s League for Palestine home at Haifa
1958 — (28 Tishrei 5719) The Habima Theater became the national theater.
1962 — (14 Tishrei 5723) In Tel Aviv, Bloomfield Stadium was opened with a football match between Hapoel (Tel Aviv) and Shimshon (Tel Aviv)
1963 — (24th of Tishrei, 5724) Archaeological digs began at Masada, Israel.
1964 — (6 Cheshvan 5725) Israel. Ramat Gan Safari Park, the country’s largest zoo, added 23 animals from Kenya: elephants, zebras, monkeys, ostriches, and giraffes
1973 — (16th of Tishrei, 5734) Yom Kippur War. ….. As many as 15,000 Iraqi troops had reached the Syrian front and were prepared to attack Israeli forces. The Israelis lucked out and spotted a lead contingent of fifty Iraqi tanks. When the Iraqis reached to within three yards of the outnumbered Israelis, the IDF tanks opened fire destroying 17 tanks and halting the assault The Soviets completed a twenty-four hour air lift during which eighty large Soviet transport planes landed in Syria filled with a wide variety of arms that more than compensated for the Syrian losses during the first week of fighting. On the southern front, Egyptian tanks and troops continued to pour across the Suez Canal posing a new threat to the Israelis
1973 — (16th of Tishrei, 5734) In the midst of the perilous first week of the Yom Kippur War a dispute broke out between the Sephardic Chief Rabbi and his Ashkenazi counterpart. ….. October 12, 1973 was a Friday. As the sun was setting the Sephardic Rabbi announced that it was a sin to bake bread on Shabbat, even in war time. The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, Shlomo Goren, the man who had been chief rabbi of the IDF in the 1967 war said that it was perfectly permissible to break the rules of Shabbat and bake bread during war time
1978 — (11th of Tishrei, 5739) Representatives of Israel and Egypt opened peace talks in Washington, D.C.
2000 — (13 Tishrei 5761) Israel Defense Forces reservists Vadim Nurzhitz and Yosef Avrahami were torn apart by an Arab mob in Ramallah, where they had ended up by mistake.
2023 — (27 Tishrei 5784) War with Gaza. Day six. An IDF spokesperson reported that since the start of hostilities, the Israeli Air Force had dropped about 6,000 bombs with a total weight of 4,000 tons on targets in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of terrorists were killed, and more than 3,600 targets were attacked, including command posts and control centers, military and strategic infrastructure, ammunition production plants, rocket systems, and others. The Arabs of Gaza continued to fire rockets at Israel. Alarm signals sounded in settlements near the border with Lebanon. As of 15:00 on October 12, the bodies of 1,076 of approximately 1,300 dead had been identified. Among them were 854 civilians and 222 servicemen
2023 — (27th of Tishrei, 5784) In Israel, a unity government has been formed, the IDF is confronting renewed threats on the border with Lebanon “where the Israeli Army has been engaged in four consecutive days of clashes with” terrorists, rockets continue to be fired
2024 — (10 Tishrei 5785) War with Gaza. Day three hundred seventy-two. Operation «Northern Arrows.» During Yom Kippur, at least 100 rockets were fired at Israeli territory from Lebanon. The IDF attacked about 200 Hezbollah targets. In Gaza, the forces of the 162nd and 252nd divisions operated throughout the sector
People
1165 — (4 Cheshvan 4926) After living in the city of Acre for about half a year, Maimonides’ family set out, exposed to dangers, for Jerusalem, to pray at the place where the Temple once stood
1837 — (13th of Tishrei, 5598) Akiba Eger, rabbi and Talmudic author, died
1915 — (4 Cheshvan 5676) Died: Yaakov Elchanan Letweinsky (Letweinsky) — merchant, one of the founders of Tel Aviv. Born in Odessa in 1852
1953 — (3rd of Cheshvan, 5714) Suzanne Kinyas, and her two children (3 year old girl and a 1 and a half year old boy) were killed today when a Palestinian Fedayeen squad infiltrated into Israel from Jordan and threw a grenade into a civilian house at Yehud, a village eight mile east of Tel Aviv
1973 — (16th of Tishrei, 5734) Moshe Koren safely ejected from his F-4E Phantom Jet after it fell victim to Lebanese anti-aircraft fire and was recovered by IDF forces; Ran Goren and Micha Oren were safely recovered by IDF forces after their F-4E Phantom Jet was shot down by an Egyptian MiG-21