History events
1430 — (16nd of Tishrei, 5191) The Jews were expelled from Eger, Bohemia
1802 — (7nd of Tishrei, 5563) Rabbi Chaim of Voluzhin (a village in Lithuania) issued a proclamation to establish a new yeshiva. The Voluzhin Yeshiva eventually became the center of Torah scholarship in Europe
1868 — (17nd of Tishrei, 5629) Blood-accusation riot at Galatz; ninety Jews injured and four synagogues destroyed
1875 — (4 Tishrei 5636) The Hebrew Union College was opened in Cincinnati — the oldest existing Jewish seminary in the United States
1898 — (17 Tishrei 5659) Herzl’s speech in London at a huge rally of Jews, at which he declared that the day was near when «the Jewish people will come into motion»
1919 — (9 Tishrei 5680) The Morgenthau Commission report was published. It was established by U.S. President Wilson on the proposal of Polish Prime Minister I. Paderewski to investigate the situation of Polish Jewry after the wave of pogroms that swept through the country at the end of World War I. Morgenthau, given the delicacy of his position as a Jew, sought to display maximum impartiality. The report showed a tendency to reduce the pogroms to a series of isolated incidents provoked by wartime conditions. The Commission recommended strict observance of civil equality, diversification of the economic activities of the Jewish population, and improvement of its professional training
1919 — (9 Tishrei 5680) Pogrom in the town of Gorodishche, about 500 Jews killed
1938 — (8nd of Tishrei, 5699) In response to yesterday’s slaughter at Tiberius ….. the National Council of Palestine Jewry and all rabbinates in Palestine declared the cessation of all Jewish labor and closing of all Jewish-owned shops from 2 to 4 this afternoon as a sign of grief and mourning during the funerals of the victims; Early this morning a Jewish engine driver was shot dead by an Arab while driving a freight train across the Acre gate level crossing at Haifa
1940 — (1nd of Tishrei, 5701) Нolocaust. In Vichy, regulations were adopted excluding Jews from the army, the press, commercial jobs, industrial jobs, government jobs and any activity related to buying or selling a company
1940 — (1 Tishrei 5701) Shoah. Beginning of the forced resettlement of the Jews of Warsaw into the ghetto
1941 — (12nd of Tishrei, 5702) Нolocaust. Nazi’s blow up 6 synagogues in Paris; All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941 — (12 Tishrei 5702) Shoah. In Vinnitsa, a detachment of Einsatzkommando 5 shot 362 Jewish prisoners of war
1941 — (12 Tishrei 5702) Shoah. A unit of the field gendarmerie of the 1st SS Brigade shot 130 Jews of Nikopol
1941 — (12 Tevet 5702) Shoah. In Romania, a decree was issued on the mandatory wearing of a distinctive sign by Jews. This concerned Jews living in the territory of pre-war Romania.
1942 — (22 Tishrei 5703) Shoah. Another thousand Jews were killed in Lyuboml (3,000 were killed on October 1)
1942 — (22 Tishrei 5703) Shoah. The Jewish action in Dubno (Rivne region) began
1943 — (4 Tishrei 5704) British search of the settlement of Hulda. After weapons were found: 80 mortar shells, 7 residents appeared before a military tribunal, but refused to reveal their source
1944 — (16nd of Tishrei, 5705) The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was living in Berlin, wrote to Heinrich Himmler proposing the establishment of an Arab-Islamic Army in Germany
1948 — (29nd of Elul, 5708) A company of the 1st Battalion commanded by Assaf Simchoni took action against an Arab gang in Kaft Kanna on the Tiberias-Nazareth Road. The village had become a center for Arab gangs who were waging attacks on Jews in the Lower Galilee and the Zevulum Valley
1948 — (29 Elul 5708) The season of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra opened; composer L. Bernstein took the conductor’s podium
1959 — (1 Tishrei 5720) Terrorist attack. A shepherd from Kibbutz Heftziba was killed
1973 — (7 Tishrei 5734) Israel. In the morning, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff, the Commander of the Air Force, and the Chief of Military Intelligence met. The situation on the southern and northern fronts was discussed. The situation seemed under control; no one believed in a joint Syrian-Egyptian attack
1973 — (7nd of Tishrei, 5734) Yom Kippur War. ….. After having submitted an initial report on October 1, Lieutenant Binyamin Siman-Tov, a research for Aman (The Directorate of Military Intelligence) prepared an “even more comprehensive assessment” along the Suez Canal in which he warned that the Egyptians were preparing for a cross-canal attack – a warning that was dismissed out of hand by his superiors; At a meeting with Golda Meir and several of her senior advisers, Moshe Dayan said that recent Egyptian and Syrian military concentrations on the Suez Canal and Golan Heights were ‘unusual’ but left no impressions that war was imminent
1977 — (21nd of Tishrei, 5738) The Jerusalem Post reported that 30 Gush Emunim members moved into Camp Shomron, the first of six such settlements approved by the cabinet, all of them to be established within the next 10 weeks.
1979 — (12 Tishrei 5740) Terrorist attack. A bomb exploded in a rabbinical seminary in Argentina
1980 — (23 Tishrei 5741) Terrorist attack. In Paris, near the synagogue on Rue Copernic, a bomb exploded. 4 people died, 20 were wounded
1989 — (4 Tishrei 5750) A court sentenced several soldiers of the «Givati» Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces to various terms of imprisonment for disgraceful conduct during the First Intifada
2015 — (20 Tishrei 5776) Terrorist attack near the Lions’ Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. An Arab attacked with a knife parents with a small child and another man. Two men — 41 and 21 years old — died in the hospital. The 22-year-old mother of the child was severely wounded. The two-year-old child received a light wound in the leg
2024 — (1 Tishrei 5785) Operation «Northern Arrows.» IDF Air Force fighter jets attacked 15 Hezbollah infrastructure targets in Beirut. Shelling of Israeli territory from Lebanon continued. In a battle in southern Lebanon, Captain Ben-Zion Falach, 21, was killed
People
1329 — (9 Cheshvan 5090) In Toledo died the astronomer and Talmud commentator Asher ben Jehiel
1508 — (9nd of Cheshvan, 5269) Rabbi Don Yitzhak Abravanel passed away. ….. Born in 1437, he was a leader during the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry. After having served as treasurer to the king of Portugal, Abravanel became a minister in the court of King. In the Inquisition, an estimated 32,000 Jews were burned at the stake and another 200,000 were expelled from Spain. Rabbi Abrabanel reportedly offered Queen Isabella the astronomical sum of 600,000 crowns to revoke the edict. Abrabanel was unable to prevent the expulsion and was exiled along with his people. Most of his rabbinic writings were composed in his later years when he was free of governmental
1839 — (25nd of Tishrei, 5600) Orthodox leader and rabbi, died
1868 — (17 Tishrei 5629) In Gdansk was born Alfred Flatow — German gymnast, three-time champion of the 1896 Summer Olympics. On October 3, 1942, he was sent to the concentration camp in the Czech city of Terezin, where he died of starvation on December 28 of that same year
1880 — (28 Tishrei 5641) Born film producer, cameraman, director and photographer, one of the pioneers of Russian cinema, Alexander (Abram) Osipovich Drankov. Died January 3, 1949
1883 — Born Ida Rubinstein — ballet dancer. Died September 20, 1960
1899 — The well-known actress of theater, cinema, and radio in the USA, Gertrude (Edelstein) Berg, was born. She died on September 14, 1966
1966 — (19 Tishrei 5727) Born Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane — Orthodox rabbi, scholar, public figure, son of Rabbi Meir Kahane. On December 31, 2000, Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane and his wife Talia were killed as a result of Arabs shooting at their car; five of their children, aged from 2 months to 10 years, were wounded, one seriously
1973 — (7 Tishrei 5734) In a plane crash died the commander of the 115th «Flying Dragon» Squadron of the Israeli Air Force, Ami Goldstein
2005 — (29 Elul 5765) At the age of 94 died Sara Levi-Tanai — Israeli dancer, choreographer and director