History events
1259 (6 Tishrei 5020). A bull of Pope Innocent IV on the blood libel: “…and that no one dare accuse the Jews of using Christian blood for ritual purposes… and whoever dares to oppose this decree after becoming acquainted with its contents shall pay the price… by being excommunicated from the Church.”
1354 (8 Tishrei 5115). The Synod of the Jews of Spain opened, with representatives from the communities of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia, and Mallorca
1669 — (10th of Tishrei, 5430) Events began today that would result in another blood libel in Germany. ….. In the village of Glatigny, near Metz, Whilhelmina, the wife of Giles Lemoine, lost track of her three year old son Didier while she was doing laundry at the fountain in the village square. A search by the villagers proved fruitless. Then Daniel Payer told the searchers he had seen “a Hebrew with a heavy bear mounted on a white horse hurrying toward Metz and carrying in his arms a child about three years old.” The searchers then headed to Metz where they were told by a man who lived near the city gate that he had seen a Hebrew enter the city but he did not have a child. It was finally deduced that the man in question was Raphael Levi, a Jew living in Boulai, a village near Metz. A warrant was then sworn out for his arrest
1740 — (15th of Tishrei, 5501) Nathan Levy ….. who had applied for a plot of ground to be used as a place of burial for his family in 1738 obtained this grant today, and the plot was thenceforth known as the «Jews’ burying-ground»; it was the first Jewish cemetery in the city, and was situated in Spruce street near Ninth street; it has been the property of the Congregation Mickvé Israel for more than a century. Levy, who was born in 1704 and died in 1753, was one of the first Jews to live in Philadelphia
1897 (28 Elul 5657). The organizational congress of the “General Jewish Workers’ Union in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia” was held in Vilna
1913 — (23th of Elul, 5673) In Kiev, Menahem Mendel Bellis who was accused of a ritual murder in what was a modern version of the age-old blood libel began today
1941 (4 Tishrei 5702). The Shoah. The “Jewish action” in Kherson ended (with over 8 000 victims). In Kakhovka, Sonderkommando 10a shot 740 Jews, and in the Komintern collective farm (Kalinindorf district), 82 Jews were shot. In Snihurivka (Mykolaiv Oblast), 160 Jews were executed
1942 — (14th of Tishrei, 5703) Нolocaust. ….. Four hundred eighty-one French Jews, including Rene’ Blum, the brother of the former French Prime Minister were killed in Birkenau; Abraham Gamzu, chairman of the Jewish Council at Kaluszyn, Poland, is executed after refusing to deliver Jews for deportation. Six thousand of the town’s residents are deported to the Treblinka death camp and later killed; Seven hundred Romanian Jews, interned at Drancy, are deported to Auschwitz
1948 (21 Elul 5708). A famous religious service was held at the Choral Synagogue in Moscow, with G. Meir in attendance
1956 — (20th of Tishrei, 5716) A Jordanian patrol crossed the border into Israel and opened fire on a group of women picking olives near the village of Aminadav killing Zohara Umri, an immigrant from Yemen.
The Israeli Cabinet discussed a reprisal mission for the terrorist attacks. Ben-Gurion called for a “vigorous” response in the upcoming night time attack
1956 (20 Tishrei 5717). By this time, 7 hotels, 11 cafés and restaurants, and 26 grocery stores had closed in Jerusalem due to a decline in tourism revenues, primarily from domestic tourism
1967 — (20th of Elul, 5727) Following the Six Days War, Kfar Etzion was reestablished by the children of the original settlers. The Kibbutz was destroyed and its defenders (including women) massacred after surrendering in May 1948 during the War for Independence
1972 (17 Tishrei 5773). The first issue of the handwritten journal “Jews in the USSR” was published in the Soviet Union
1973 — (28th of Elul, 5733) King Hussein of Jordan secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Prime Minister of an impending attack by the Syrians. The king said he thought, but was not entirely sure, that the Syrians would not being contemplating this unless the Egyptians were going to attack as well. Mrs. Meir and her advisors including the Defense Minister ignored the warnings
1985 — (10th of Tishrei, 5746) PLO terrorists from Force 17 “hijacked an Israeli yacht off the coast of Larnaca, Cyprus” and murdered the three Israelis on board in cold blood
1996 (12 Tishrei 5757). Shootouts between Israel Defense Forces soldiers and Arafat’s police occurred in Ramallah, Kfar Darom, and the Erez checkpoint due to the opening of a tunnel to the Western Wall.
1997 (23 Elul 5757). Two agents of the Israeli foreign intelligence service, Mossad, using fake Canadian passports, attacked from behind Khaled Mashaal, head of the Political Bureau of the Islamist organization Hamas, as he was walking to his office in the centre of Amman, the capital of Jordan, and injected a lethal poison into his left ear. However, they were caught, and Israel was forced not only to deliver the antidote to Mashaal but also, in order to rescue the intelligence officers, to release Sheikh Yassin from prison.
2005 (21 Elul 5765). Israel. In response to a massive rocket attack on Sderot on 23 September, the IDF launched Operation “First Rain,” which involved bombardments of Gaza.
2007 — (13th of Tishrei, 5768) Yuval Baruch, an archaeologist with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, ….. announced the discovery of a quarry compound which provided King Herod with the stones to renovate the second Temple. It houses the Temple Mount Coins, pottery and iron stake found proved the date of the quarrying to be about 19 BC. Archaeologist Ehud Netzer confirmed that the large outlines of the stone cuts is evidence that it was a massive public project worked on by hundreds of slaves
2008 (25 Elul 5768). A railway accident in the Negev. In the afternoon, six wagons of a freight train derailed near the Mamashit junction. The train was carrying sulfur.
2009 (7 Tishrei 5770). Israel. The trial of the country’s former Prime Minister, E. Olmert, began in the Jerusalem District Court. He was accused of taking bribes, fraud, and breach of public trust.
2009 (7 Tishrei 5770). An unusual incursion of jackals into Afula occurred during the night: eight residents of the city were hospitalized due to bites.
2024 (22 Elul 5784). The war with Gaza. Day 355. Operation “Northern Arrows.” About 280 Hezbollah targets were struck in various areas of Lebanon. Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at Israel. Air‑raid sirens sounded in many areas south and southeast of Haifa; rockets were launched towards Safed, Tiberias, Shtula, Matata, Netuah, Sasa, Shfaram, and Tamra. Missile and UAV launches were also reported from Iraq and Yemen.
2025 (3 Tishrei 5786). In the morning, record rainfall — over 100 mm — fell in Western Galilee, from Nahariya to Acre, with most of it occurring within an hour and a half
Рeople
1321 — (2nd of Tishrei, 5082) French Talmudist” Eliezer ben Joseph of Chinon, the student and brother-in-law of Perez ben Elijah of Corbell “was martyred today
1905 — (25th of Elul, 5665) Birthdate of Professor Nahman Avigad Israeli archeologist famed for his work at Masada, on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and most important of all the excavation of the Old City starting in 1969. Among his discoveries were the great menorah from the Second Temple and the Broad Wall mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. He passed away in 1992
1944 — Eugenia Zuckerman, an American journalist, writer, and musician, was born.
2003 (23 Elul 5763). Staff Sergeant A. Keinan of the Israel Defense Forces was killed in the Al‑Bureij refugee camp in Gaza while carrying out a combat mission