History events
1298 — (12 Cheshvan 5059) In Germany, as a result of the repressions by the German knight Rindfleisch, 14 Jews from Heilbronn were murdered. On the same day, Rindfleisch’s detachment killed the only Jewish family living in Neckarsulm. The victims were a certain Vivis, Meylin, and their children
1781 — (30nd of Tishrei, 5542) Emperor Joseph II issues the Toleration Decree in which the Jews of Austria were accorded civil and political equality
1846 — (29 Tishrei 5607) Nicholas I approved the idea of the Marseille merchant Jacob Isaac Altaras to resettle part of the Jews from «Russian» Poland to Algeria for agricultural work. But for unknown reasons, the matter came to nothing.
1881 — (26 Tishrei 5642) A decree by which the Commission for the Regulation of the Jewish Way of Life in Russia, which had previously existed under the Department of Executive Police and had only managed to draft a project for introducing metric records among Jews, was closed. In its place, a committee was formed under the chairmanship of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Gotovtsev, to process the materials collected by local commissions on the Jewish question and to examine the Jewish question in all its totality. The committee’s sessions were attended by I. N. Durnovo, Prince Tsertelev, and Professors Andreevsky, Grigoriev, and Bestuzhev-Ryumin. Soon this committee was also closed and replaced by a «Special High Commission for the Review of the Laws Concerning Jews in Effect in the Empire,» first chaired by Makov, and after his death in 1883, by Count K. I. Palen
1905 — (20nd of Tishrei, 5666) A two day Pogrom began at Kishinev
1930 — (27 Tishrei 5691) The «White Paper» was published in London. The English name — White Paper — derived from the appearance of this booklet. The documents stated that Jewish immigration was displacing Arabs from their lands, as Jews used more advanced agricultural methods, and the Arabs could not compete economically. The paper recommended limiting or altogether halting Jewish immigration to Palestine, at least until the Arabs began to employ more advanced agricultural methods.
1936 — (3 Cheshvan 5697) The Holocaust. The commander of the German land forces issued an order by which «half-Jews» could not hold any command positions in the army, and «quarter-Jews» — only in exceptional cases
1937 — (14th of Cheshvan, 5698) Arab violence continues as bombs were thrown in the Shimon Hazadik quarter of Jerusalem, in Safed at group of reserve Jewish policeman and in the Tel Aviv/Jaffa area
1939 — (6th of Cheshvan, 5700) A Jewish ghetto at Lublin, Poland, is established
1940 — (17nd of Tishrei, 5701) Air raid sirens sounded tonight in Jerusalem as Axis planes were spotted approaching the coast of Palestine. No bombs fell on the City of David
1941 — (28 Tishrei 5702) The Shoah. Over the course of 2 days, including the 20th, the entire Jewish population of Borisov — 8,000 people — was annihilated.
1941 — (28 Tishrei 5702) The Shoah. In Berdiansk (Zaporizhzhia region), 900 Jews were shot. At the «Pioner» kolkhoz (Kalinindorf district, Kherson region) — 84 Jews. Feldkommandantur 240 in Dnepropetrovsk compiled a report which, among other things, stated: «The Jewish question, insofar as it concerns only the city of Dnepropetrovsk, can be considered resolved. At the start of the occupation, there were approximately 35,000 Jews. SD operations covered approximately 15,000 Jews; approximately 15,000 Jews fled as a result of these operations, and a remainder of 5,000 Jews still exists…»
1942 — (8 Cheshvan 5703) The Shoah. In Dunayevtsy (Khmelnitsky region), approximately 2,000 Jews were shot.
1944 — (2 Cheshvan 5705) From a camp in Latrun, the British deported to Eritrea 251 fighters of the underground organizations Irgun (ETZEL) and Lehi, who had been arrested earlier in Petah Tikva during a police raid.
1944 — (2 Cheshvan 5705) The British War Ministry issued an official statement: «His Majesty’s Government has decided to form a Jewish Brigade, which will take part in combat operations. The infantry brigade will be formed on the basis of the Jewish battalions of the Palestine Regiment.»
1948 — In some of the fiercest fighting of the War of Independence Israeli forces are victorious at Huleikat after fighting both Egyptian and Saudi army units. ….. This victory opened the road to rest of the Negev; A naval battle took place between three Israeli warships near Majdal, and an Egyptian corvette with air support. An Israeli sailor was killed and four wounded, and two of the ships were damaged. One Egyptian plane was shot down, but the corvette escaped. This naval clash was part of the Israeli attempt to thwart the Egyptian drive up the coast through Gaza with the aim of taking Tel Aviv; 1948: Tonight, the 51st Battalion of the Givati Brigade launched an unsuccessful attack from the south on the Egyptian held police fort of Iraq Suwaydan
1948 — (16nd of Tishrei, 5709) Founding of Tzova, a kibbutz in the Judean hills outside of Jerusalem
1955 — (3 Cheshvan 5716) A unified Egyptian-Syrian military command was established, and in October 1956, as expected, Jordan became the third member of the allied governing body. As a result, Israel found itself surrounded on three sides (south, east, and north) by hostile armies, moreover under a unified command
1973 — (23nd of Tishrei, 5734) The Yom Kippur War continued to exact its toll. ….. By nightfall, the Syrian counterattack on the Golan Heights had been repelled with losses that included thirty Jordanian and Iraqi attacks. On the Suez front seventy Egyptian tanks were knocked out and fourteen of Sadat’s aircraft had been shot down
1976 — (25 Tishrei 5737) In the reception area of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 13 Jews who had come to inquire about the reasons for the denial of permission to emigrate to Israel were seized by the police, taken outside the city, beaten, and two were arrested; they were released from prison only after a month and a half of incarceration
1994 — (14th of Cheshvan, 5755) Twenty-one Israelis and one Dutch national were murdered and another fifty were injured by a Hamas terrorist who set off a bomb as bus was approaching Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv
2006 — (27 Tishrei 5767) In the morning, rains accompanied by thunderstorms fell in northern Israel; in some areas, hail fell. By evening, the rains intensified and spread to the central regions of the country. In Haifa and the surrounding areas, rain with hail had been falling since morning, which led to traffic jams on the roads.
2006 — (27 Tishrei 5767) Soldiers inspecting a 300‑meter‑long section in the area of the “Philadelphi Corridor” discovered 8 tunnels that had been used by Arabs to transport weapons and ammunition.
2006 — (27 Tishrei 5767) At a ceremonial event at the stadium in Caesarea, thousands of infantry soldiers removed their black berets and put on camouflage ones. This marked the completion of the formation of the first new infantry brigade, “Kfir,” in the past 25 years.
2007 — (7 Cheshvan 5768) The “Peretz Center” shopping mall opened in Dimona.
2010 — (11 Cheshvan 5771) Residents of the “A,” “B,” and “G” neighborhoods in Be’er Sheva — a total of more than 50,000 people — were left without water. The accident occurred during work to lay a new railway track. An excavator damaged the underground pipe of the main water supply line
2014 — (25nd of Tishrei, 5775) A spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital confirmed reports issued today by Reuters that it had treated a daughter of Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader for Hamas, following complications during a standard medical procedure in Gaza
2023 — (4 Cheshvan 5784) The war with Gaza. Day 13. Rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from Gaza and Lebanon continued. A large anti‑Israel demonstration took place in the Arab town of Umm al‑Fahm: hundreds of local residents protested against Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, taking to the streets with symbols and flags of Hamas. In the Shura camp, 742 civilians were identified as victims of the Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities in the first days of the war. The Israeli government approved the decision to evacuate residents of Ashkelon who had lost their homes. This concerns approximately 24,000 people who will be relocated to hotels for at least 15 days.
2023 — (4 Cheshvan 5784) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the entry into force of a visa‑free regime for Israeli citizens
People
1329 — (9th of Cheshvan, 5090) Asher ben Yechiel passed away. Born in 1250 this great Talmudic commentator was known as Rabbenu Asher or the «Rosh»
1518 — (3th of Cheshvan, 5278) Shealtiel a Sephardic Jew who had served as Kahya for twenty years was ousted from office by the community leaders, after many complaints of bribery and arbitrary taxes were lodged against him by Jews. The community banned him and his sons from holding the position of kahya or performing any other function involving contact with the Ottoman authorities.
1687 — (22th of Cheshvan, 5448) Giulio Bartolocci, Italian Christian student of Jewish literature, died
1739 — (28 Tishrei 5500) The Portuguese playwright António da Silva died
1894 — (29nd of Tishrei, 5665) James Darmesteter, French philologist, died
1916 — (22nd of Tishrei, 5677) Birthdate of pianist Emil Gilels
1918 — Alexander Galich, poet, was born. He died on December 15, 1977.
1943 — (23nd of Tishrei, 5704) Streptomycin the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, ….. was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University by a Jewish research student from Connecticut named Albert Schat. However, according to academic tradition, Schatz’s supervisor, Professor Selman Abraham Waksman, took credit for his student’s discovery and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1952. Schatz was belatedly awarded the Rutgers medal in 1994, at the age of 74
2023 — (4 Cheshvan 5784) During an anti‑terrorist operation in the Arab “refugee” camp Nur Shams, reserve warrant officer Maksim Reznikov was killed.
2024 — (17 Tishrei 5785) War day 379. Reserve sergeant major Ishai (Netanel) Greenbaum died in the hospital; he had been severely wounded on October 9 in a battle in southern Lebanon. In a battle in the northern Gaza Strip, senior sergeant Ophir Berkovich, aged 20, and sergeant Elishay Jung, aged 19, were killed. In the same battle, an officer was seriously wounded; on the border with Lebanon, an officer of the 53rd Battalion of the 188th Barak Armored Brigade sustained a severe injury.
2025 — (27 Tishrei 5786) The war in Gaza. Alleged truce. In southern Gaza, Major Yaniv Kula, aged 26, and Senior Sergeant Itai Yavetz, aged 21, were killed.