History events
-1677 — BCE (10 Tishri 2085). The sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham.
-1314 — BCE (1 Tishri 2448). The Egyptian plague. On the first day of Tishri in the new year 2448, all of Egypt was filled with lice.
-1313 — BCE (12 Tishri 2449). The children of Israel brought to Moses everything necessary for the construction of the Tabernacle
-141 — (18th of Elul, 3619) The fight begun by Matthias and Judah came to a successful conclusion when Simon was elected High Priest and was recognized as the governing authority of an independent Jewish state
1189 — (19th of Elul, 4949) Coronation massacre at London
1597 — (1 Tishri 5358). A prayer hall named «Bet Yaakov» was consecrated in Amsterdam in honor of one of its founders, the Marrano Jacob Tirado. The rabbis of this synagogue were Joseph Pardo (who served from 1597 to 1619) and Moses ben Aroyo (from 1597 until his departure to Constantinople). In 1616, Saul Levi Morteyra became the rabbi.
1625 — (11 Elul 5385). During the morning prayer, fifteen leaders of the Jewish community of Jerusalem were arrested, including sixty-five-year-old Rabbi Gurwitz. The prisoners spent two weeks in a detention pit. During this time, the community managed to gather, borrowing money from wealthy Arabs at an interest rate of fifty percent, the exorbitant sum demanded by the insatiable Turkish governor Ibn Farouk. He arrived in Jerusalem in the winter of 5385 (1625) and quickly revealed himself as a brutal extortionist. By his orders, people were seized in the streets, thrown into dungeons, and then large ransoms were demanded from relatives. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Gurwitz and his companions were released. To avoid new arrests, several community leaders secretly left the city, abandoning all their possessions.
1652 — (11 Tishri 5413). Three Portuguese-Sephardic congregations of Hamburg — «Talmud Torah,» «Keter Torah,» and «Neve Shalom» — merged to form «Kaal Kadosh Bet Yisrael» («Holy Community of the House of Israel»). Thus, they officially established a community with a large synagogue, Beth Israel. The Sephardic community numbered about 120 families in 1663
1852 — (19th of Elul, 5612) Anti-Jewish riots at Stockholm
1897 — (6 Elul 5657). Entry in Herzl’s diary: «In Basel, I founded a Jewish state; in 50 years, it will be recognized by all.»
1908 — (7th of Elul, 5668) In Czernowitz, the First Conference for the Yiddish Language came to a close
1917 — (16th of Elul, 5677) The British cabinet formally discusses the document that will be known as the Balfour Declaration. ….. While most ministers favored the declaration, Edwin Montagu a Jewish member of the cabinet spoke out against the declaration. He feared that the declaration of Palestine as the Jewish National Home would undermine the progress that British Jews had made on the road to full acceptance in their English homeland. As secretary of state to India, Montagu claimed that the pro-Zionist statement would inflame the Moslem population of India
1919 — (8 Elul 5679). The army of the Directory carried out a pogrom in Sharhorod (Vinnytsia region), killing nearly 100 Jews.
1924 — (4 Elul 5684). The Ministry of Jewish Affairs was abolished in Lithuania
1926 — (24th of Elul, 5686) A fight broke out today between a group of Bedouins and the residents of Avodath Israel after the Jews refusing the shepherds’ request to their sheep graze on land belonging to the settlement. The Jews refused because they it would be a violation of the government quarantine imposed in response to the current cattle plague
1939 — (19th of Elul, 5699) The SS executed 26 Jews in the Polish frontier town, Wieruszow
1941 — (11 Elul 5701). The Shoah. 143 Jews were shot in the villages of Mendeldorf and Rottendorf (Kalinyndorf district of Kherson region). Likely on the same day, a Sonderkommando 4a unit shot 106 Jews in Vasylkiv (Kyiv region). The 8th SS Infantry Regiment shot another 37 Jews. A Jewish residential area (300 people) was established in Ananiev (Odesa region).
1942 — (21 Elul 5702). The Shoah. Mass executions in Vladimir-Volynsky were completed; a total of 13,500 people were shot over three days. About 5,000 Jews were transported from Stryi (Lviv region) to Belzec.
1948 — (29 Av 5708). Golda Meir arrived in Moscow as Israel’s ambassador.
1950 — (21 Elul 5710). The «Billion Conference» opened in Jerusalem, where American Jewish millionaires discussed plans for mobilizing investments in Israel’s economy and possibilities for financial assistance to Israel
1951 — (2th of Elul, 5711) According to published reports ….. Israel is facing the worse food crisis that has confronted the Jewish state since its birth three years ago. Except on the black market, fruits and vegetables have been all but unavailable on the local market. The meat ration has been canceled for the last three weeks and there was no sugar ration available during August. The cause of the shortage is the continued flow of new immigrants to the country which means that the food supply is always outstripped by the ever-increasing demand
2009 — (14th of Elul, 5769) The Antiquities Authority said a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found Jerusalem will be opened to the public beginning today
2003 — (6 Elul 5763). «Hezbollah» launched a rocket attack on two Israeli army posts in the Golan Heights. One post was hit.
2006 — (10 Elul 5766). The new school year began in Israel – 1,423,840 students sat at their desks, of whom 127,000 crossed the school threshold for the first time
2013 — (28 Elul 5774). A high-tech business center «Hav-Yam Negev» opened in Beersheba
2014 — (8th of Elul, 5774) Israel signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan today, under which it will supply the Hashemite Kingdom with $15 billion worth of natural gas from its Leviathan energy field over 15 years
2024 — (30 Av 5784). War with Gaza. Day 333. In the area of Bait Lahiya, in the northern sector, a tunnel over 1 km long was discovered and destroyed, inside of which rails were laid for transporting rockets and other weapons
People
1814 — (18th of Elul, 5574) James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician, born
1905 — Nechama Leibowitz was born — a scholar, Bible commentator. Died April 12, 1997.
1910 — Kitty Carlisle Hart was born — an American singer, film actress, public figure. Died April 2007.
1930 — Solomon Alexander was born — an Israeli physicist. Died in 1998.
1991 — (24 Elul 5751). The funeral of Major General (ret.) Sh. Gonen (Gorodisha), commander of the 7th Armored Brigade in the Six-Day War, the first to reach the Suez Canal, commander of the Southern Front in the Yom Kippur War. The Agranat Commission, investigating the causes of the failures in the first days of the war, named him one of the main culprits