History events
-1274 — (23 Tishrei 2488) BCE. The Children of Israel, led by Moses, defeated the army of Og, who had come out against them, and then took possession of his country.
672 — (21 Tishrei 4433) The Visigothic king Wamba ascended the throne. During his reign, the Jews were expelled from Narbonne and, apparently, also from Septimania (a region in the south of France; until 759 it was part of the Spanish possessions).
1701 — (27 Elul 5461) — The birthday of London’s oldest synagogue, Bevis Marks Synagogue. It is the only one in Europe that has been in continuous operation for the last 300 years.
1831 — (12 Tishrei 5592) The Act of the British Consul in Jamaica regarding the rights and freedoms of the Jews of the island was solemnly proclaimed
1899 — (15nd of Tishrei, 5660) L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s official newspaper, runs a story about a Christian boy found dead in Hungary, his blood drained out by Jews who wanted it for their ghastly, superstitious rituals
1917 — (3nd of Tishrei, 5678) Anti-Jewish riots in Tunis cause five Jews to be injured, and their shops pillaged and vandalized
1941 — (27th of Elul, 5701) Thousands of Jews are murdered at Zhitomir, Ukraine
1941 — (27 Elul 5701) Shoah. A «Jewish gross action» took place in Vinnytsia. The 45th Reserve Police Battalion and the headquarters company of the Higher SS and Police Führer in Southern Russia shot 10,000 people — residents of the city and its surroundings — on this day. Sonderkommando 4a shot 3,145 Jews in Zhytomyr and 166 Jews in Ivankov (Kyiv region). A unit of Task Force 5 shot over 1,000 Jews in Talne and 35 Jews in Yustungrad (Cherkasy region). The 1st SS Motorized Infantry Brigade shot Jewish men in Kirovohrad and 463 Jews in Oleksandriia (Kirovohrad region). The headquarters of Einsatzgruppe C shot several hundred Jews in Novoukrainka (Kirovohrad region), and a unit of Einsatzgruppe D shot 178 Jews at the Yurkino grain state farm (Kalinindorf district, Kherson region).
1942 — (8 Tishrei 5702) Shoah. 2,500 Jews from the Galician town of Brody (out of approximately 10,000 living there before the war) and from Pidkamin (Lviv region) were deported to Belzec — 2,800 Jews; about 300 were killed on the spot in Brody.
1943 — (19 Elul 5703) On this day, the naval attaché of the German embassy in Denmark, Georg Duckwitz, made the decision to oppose Berlin’s plans for the deportation of Danish Jews to death camps. Thanks to him, 7,200 people were saved. On March 29, 1971, Duckwitz was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
1944 — (2 Tishrei 5705) Shoah. 2,000 Jewish prisoners of the Klooga camp, 40 kilometers from Tallinn, were burned alive in barracks
1951 — (18th of Elul, 5711) According to a survey conducted by the government of Israel ….. that was released today, ‘rationed and other available supplies constituting Israel’s austerity food basket in 1950 provided adequate nourishment… However, part of the public faced malnutrition because it could not afford buy all the supplies to which it is entitled or because it rejected part of the austerity diet because of food habits. The team used the consumption of 2,400 calories as the baseline and a quarter of those interviewed in the sample consumed 2,400 or fewer calories per day
1959 — (16 Elul 5719) Israel. New currency — lirot — was put into circulation; they were in use until March 31, 1984.
1961 — (9 Tishrei 5722) Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem «Babi Yar» was published in Literaturnaya Gazeta.
1972 — (11 Tishrei 5733) Terrorist attack. A. Shirokhi — attaché of the Israeli embassy in London — died from explosives placed in a letter
1988 — (8nd of Tishrei, 5749) Israel launched its first satellite for secret military reconnaissance
2002 — (12th of Tishrei, 5763) ….. Shoshana (Rosanna) Siso, 63, of Gan Yavneh; Ofer Zinger, 29, of Moshav Petza’el; Solomon Hoenig, 79, of Tel Aviv; Yossi Mamistavlov, 39 of Or Yehuda; Yaffa Shemtov, 49, of Tel Aviv and Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner, 19, of Glasgow, Scotland were murdered and 70 more people were injured when a Palestinian terrorists set off a bomb aboard a bus on Allenby Street as passed in front of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv
2005 — (15th of Elul, 5765) President Moshe Katsav laid the foundation stone for Estonia’s first synagogue since the Holocaust when the Nazis boasted there was not a single Jew left in the Baltic nation
2005 — (15 Elul 5765) Rain in Israel
2014 — (24 Elul 5774) In Minsk, an agreement was signed to abolish the visa regime between Israel and Belarus. On September 21, a similar document was signed with Moldova.
2016 — (16 Elul 5776) Thousands of people took part in a race along the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem. The race was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem.
2025 — (26 Elul 5785) In the Ramallah area, security services discovered a workshop where rockets were being produced. Dozens of homemade rockets, warheads for them, and explosives were found. Moreover, two rockets were already prepared for launch (but were standing without warheads for the time being). The range of such rockets can reach from several kilometers up to 10 km
Рeople
-1565 — (5 Tishrei 2197) BCE. To Jacob and his maidservant Bilhah, who was the daughter of Laban by a maidservant, a son was born — Naphtali.
1590 — (20th of Elul) Rabbi Judah Arye Moscato…whose principle fame rests on his exegesis, Kol Yehuda of Al Charzari, which was printed for the first time in Fano, Italy in passed away today
1724 — (2nd of Tishrei, 5485) Gluckel of Hamelin passed away
1757 — (5nd of Tishrei, 5518) Birth of Mantua native Samuel Romanelli who combined the skills of a Hebrew poet with that of a traveler able to provide readable descriptions of his visits to a variety of Jewish communities
1812 — (13nd of Tishrei, 5573) Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Frankfort banking-house, died
1883 — (17 Elul 5643) Rabbi Isaac Breuer was born — writer, public figure in Israel, one of the founders of modern Orthodox Judaism. He died in 1946
1894 — (18th of Elul, 5654) Birthdate of Dov Hoz, the native of Orsha who made Aliyah in 1906 and who a leading labor Zionist, founder of the Haganah and the founder and CEO of «Aviron,» a pioneer of aviation in Israel that trained pilot and established flight lines in Israel and outside
1904 — (10nd of Tishrei, 5665) Birthdate of Avot Yeshurun, a Ukrainian born, Israeli poet
1923 — (7 Tishrei 5681) In Omsk, an engineering genius was born — Brigadier General of the Israel Defense Forces David Laskov, laureate of three Israel Security Prizes. He died on December 8, 1982.
1934 — (10 Tishrei 5695) Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, was born.
1977 — Emil Sutovsky was born — Israeli chess grandmaster.
2024 — (16 Elul 5784) In northern Israel, in clashes with Hezbollah, Reserve Major Nael Fawarsi, 43, and Sergeant Tomer Keren, 20, were killed