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Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 424
0445-10-31 BC - Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).
1621-11-19 - Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1730-04-08 - 1st Jewish congregation in US forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1809-08-08 - 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnus, arrive in Israel (Palestine)
1878-12-03 - Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah, Israel
1888-06-29 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1903-04-06 - The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
1905-11-24 - Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel
1909-12-01 - 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1912-12-28 - National Council of Young Israel convenes
1917-05-03 - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
1920-08-10 - Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
1920-08-20 - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1921-09-11 - Nahalal, the first moshav in Israel, is settled.
1923-04-07 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1925-02-09 - Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1927-10-23 - Town of Netanya Israel founded by Nathan Strauss
1929-08-23 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1930-02-05 - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
1936-12-26 - Israel Philarmonic Orch forms
1942-06-21 - 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
1947-01-10 - British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947-04-01 - 1st Jewish immigrants to Israel disembark at Port of Eilat
1947-11-30 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948-05-10 - 1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1948-05-14 - Israel declares independence from under British administration
1948-05-14 - Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1948-05-14 - US grants Israel de facto recognition
1948-05-15 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1948-05-16 - Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel
1948-05-16 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1948-05-17 - Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
1948-05-17 - Soviet Union recognized Israel
1948-05-18 - Saudi Arabia joins invasion of Israel
1948-05-20 - 1st use of Israeli Air Force & 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1948-05-23 - Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
1948-05-26 - Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
1948-06-01 - Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
1948-06-19 - Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel
1948-06-21 - Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948-06-30 - Last British armies leave Israel
1948-07-10 - Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
1948-07-14 - Israel bombs Cairo
1948-07-17 - Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948-08-16 - Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1948-10-14 - Large scale fighting between Israel & Egypt
1948-10-16 - Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
1948-10-18 - Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army
1948-10-21 - Beersheba liberated by Israeli army
1948-10-22 - Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1948-10-27 - Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev
1948-10-28 - Flag of Israel is adopted
1948-10-29 - Israeli forces liberate Meron & Gush-Halev
1948-10-30 - Operation Hiram: Israelis take control of Galilee
1948-11-16 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1948-12-29 - Canada recognizes Israel
1949-01-19 - Cuba recognises Israel.
1949-01-25 - 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1949-01-29 - Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
1949-02-14 - 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
1949-02-17 - Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
1949-02-24 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1949-02-27 - Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president
1949-03-04 - Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1949-03-29 - Turkey recognizes Israel
1949-04-04 - Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1949-05-11 - By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949-07-20 - Israel's 19 month war of independence ends
1949-11-20 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1949-12-13 - Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950-01-16 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
1950-01-23 - Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel
1950-06-25 - Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950-07-05 - Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in Israel
1950-09-24 - "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1951-03-08 - Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1951-03-13 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1951-04-12 - Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day
1951-05-16 - The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1951-08-01 - David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1951-09-01 - PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
1951-10-07 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
1952-08-28 - German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952-11-03 - Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1952-12-06 - Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1952-12-08 - Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
1952-12-10 - Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952-12-10 - Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1953-02-11 - Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel
1953-02-12 - USSR breaks relations with Israel
1953-07-20 - USSR/Israel recover diplomatic relations
1953-11-12 - David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953-12-07 - Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
1954-10-14 - Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53
1955-02-13 - Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1955-03-01 - Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1955-05-11 - Israel attacks Gaza
1955-07-19 - Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1955-07-27 - Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1955-08-07 - Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 175
1718-01-07 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1838-02-06 - Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1874-08-15 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1874-11-27 - Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman (1st President)
1878-02-08 - Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du)
1881-12-31 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song)
1884-04-30 - Albert Israel Elkus, composer
1884-11-24 - Itzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (d. 1963)
1885-02-24 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1886-10-16 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888-07-17 - Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
1891-07-29 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist
1892-10-28 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch)
1894-10-15 - Moshe Sharett, second Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1965)
1895-10-25 - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli PM (MWP) (1963-69)
1896-07-13 - Mordecai Ardon, Israeli painter (d. 1992)
1897-07-05 - Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer
1898-05-03 - Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1899-09-23 - Marcel Dalio, [Israel Blauschild], Paris France, actor (China Gate)
1904-02-23 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
1905-09-25 - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1907-11-17 - Israel Regardie, Aleister Crowley's secretary (d. 1985)
1909-02-06 - Israel Citkowitz, composer
1910-11-11 - Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician
1911-05-27 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (1913-08-16)
1913-08-16 - Menachem Begin, Brest Russian Empire, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978), (d. 1992)
1915-02-02 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
1915-05-20 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
1915-10-15 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician (Prime Minister 1983–84, 1986–1992, (d. 2012)
1916-05-16 - Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
1917-04-21 - Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82)
1918-09-17 - Chaim Herzog, Israeli president (1983-93), (d. 1997)
1918-10-10 - Jigal Allon, Israeli politician
1922-03-01 - Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994)
1923-03-27 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1923-08-02 - Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister
1923-08-15 - Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
1923-12-15 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002)
1924-05-03 - Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (d. 2000)
1924-06-15 - Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
1925-12-24 - Yafa Yarkoni, Israel, singer (Road to Jerusalem, Don't Say Goodbye, Say I will see You) (d.2012)
1928-02-27 - Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1928-04-08 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000)
1928-05-11 - Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
1928-07-10 - Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli Bible scholar
1929-11-04 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
1930-06-08 - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
1930-08-18 - Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
1932-07-01 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1932-08-11 - Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)
1933-01-21 - Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
1934-03-05 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
1935-01-18 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
1935-09-09 - [Chaim] Topol, Tel Aviv Israel, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1935-12-08 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
1936-03-10 - Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor (King)
1936-11-17 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1937-03-16 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
1937-12-31 - Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, Nobel laureate
1939-05-04 - Amos Oz, Jerusalem, Israel, author (My Michael)
1939-07-22 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress
1939-12-02 - Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
1940-04-05 - Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1941-06-13 - Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
1942-02-12 - Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1942-07-16 - Desmond Dekker, [Dacris], Jamaica, reggae pioneer (Aces-Israelites)
1942-10-12 - Daliah Lavi, Shavel Zion Israel, actress (Casino Royalle, Lord Jim)
1943-07-22 - Yoran Ben Ami, Israel, producer/president (Triumph Pictures)
1943-08-24 - Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
1944-03-18 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader and politician, (d. 2012)
1945-05-14 - Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
1945-07-01 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1945-08-31 - Itzhak Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim (14 Grammys)
1945-09-30 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1945-11-23 - Assaf Dayan, Israel, actor (Operation Thunderbolt)
1946-03-13 - Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
Psychic Uri Geller (1946-12-20)
1946-12-20 - Uri Geller, Tel Aviv, Israel, psychic (bends forks)
1947-02-01 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
1947-10-01 - Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist
1948-07-16 - Pinchas Zukerman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967)
1949-08-25 - Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
1949-10-09 - Shep Messing, Israel, soccer goal tender (NY Cosmos)
1949-10-21 - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister
1949-11-26 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
1949-11-28 - Victor Ostrovsky, Canadian/Israel, Mossad agent (By Way of Deception)
1950-01-27 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950-06-25 - Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
1952-06-09 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1953-04-22 - Steve Bond, Haifa Israel, actor (General Hospital, To Die For)
1953-12-29 - Gali Atari, Israeli singer and actress
1954-06-20 - Ilan Ramon, Israeli combat pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
1954-07-15 - Boris Polak, Israel, Men's 50M Free Rifle 3 Positions (Oly-20-1996)
1954-10-13 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
1957-07-07 - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
1957-08-19 - Darby Hinton, Santa Monica California, actor (Israel-Daniel Boone)
1957-11-19 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1958-05-05 - Ron Arad, Israeli aircraft navigator missing in action.
1958-05-30 - Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
1958-06-01 - Ahron Bregman, Israeli journalist
1958-07-05 - Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 2 of 2
1973-07-06 - "The Avengers" actress Diana Rigg (35) weds Israeli painter Menachen Gueffen (43)
2010-08-01 - "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek (33) weds business consultant Kimberly Brook at the Kabbalah Center in Tel Aviv, Israel
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 85 of 85
1760-05-22 - Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
1790-05-29 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1909-06-28 - Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
1911-08-12 - Jozef Israels, painter, dies
1924-06-30 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
1926-08-01 - Israel Zangwill, British zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies), dies
1932-08-05 - Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
1943-06-01 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1952-11-09 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
1953-08-11 - Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies
1957-07-10 - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77
1958-10-27 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84
1959-01-28 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israel Knesset (1949-59), dies at 73
1959-07-25 - Isaac Halevi Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel (1936-59), dies at 71
1962-02-19 - Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77
1962-05-31 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
1963-10-15 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Israel), dies
1965-06-13 - Martin Buber, German/Israel philosopher/zionist/theologist, dies at 87
1965-07-07 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1965-08-28 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1966-11-08 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
1969-02-26 - Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], premier (Israel), dies at 73
1972-09-05 - Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered
1972-09-05 - Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered
1973-12-01 - David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87
1974-05-04 - Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65
1975-04-25 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1977-01-03 - Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide
1978-12-08 - Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1980-02-29 - Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61
1981-10-16 - Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1982-01-19 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77
1987-07-11 - Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
1987-08-17 - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
1987-11-06 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1988-04-16 - Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1988-06-25 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1991-02-07 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
1992-01-08 - Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack
1992-02-10 - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (1992-03-09)
1992-03-09 - Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85
1992-06-18 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1992-08-02 - Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
1992-08-08 - Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies
1994-05-24 - Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96
1994-07-04 - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1994-08-20 - Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
1994-10-28 - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
1994-12-08 - Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer, dies at 89
1995-02-19 - Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
1995-07-16 - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
1995-11-04 - Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1995-12-04 - Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996-01-22 - Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85
1996-06-02 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
1997-04-17 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78
1997-06-26 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
1997-07-12 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician (b. 1959)
1998-01-20 - Zevulun Hammer, Vice PM of Israel, dies
2000-02-23 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
2000-11-12 - Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2001-10-17 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
2002-03-29 - Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children
2002-09-07 - Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
2002-11-17 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (b. 1915)
2003-02-18 - Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
2004-06-26 - Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer and song-writer (b. 1930)
2004-10-17 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (b. 1952)
2005-01-29 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)
2005-03-01 - Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2005-04-24 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005-08-21 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2006-02-14 - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2006-05-11 - Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
2006-12-16 - Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (b. 1922)
2007-06-19 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2008-02-15 - Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008-04-12 - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
2008-06-01 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
2010-10-28 - Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1934)
2010-12-09 - Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
2011-04-04 - Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (b. 1958)
2011-05-05 - Yosef Merimovich, Israeli football player and manager (b. 1924)
2012-01-01 - Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli Singer, dies after years of Alzheimer's disease at 86
2012-06-30 - Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 96
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