Days of Memory

ISRAEL IN TIME CALENDARS

Reference Days of Memory

The Jewish and Israeli year, and the events on the timelines that its days recall.

The state keeps a calendar of memory as well as of holidays. Dates below follow the Hebrew calendar, so the day on the civil calendar changes from year to year. Where a holiday recalls an event on the timelines, the event is named.

HEBREW DATE DAY WHAT IT MARKS

Tishrei 1 to 2 Rosh Hashanah The Jewish new year

Tishrei 10 Yom Kippur The Day of Atonement. The Yom Kippur War began on it in 1973

Tishrei 15 Sukkot The autumn harvest and the booths of the desert wandering

Cheshvan 12 Rabin Memorial Day The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin on 4 November 1995

Cheshvan 29 Sigd A holiday of the Ethiopian Jewish community, a state holiday since 2008

Kislev 25 Hanukkah The rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees in 164 BCE

Tevet 10 Fast of Tevet The start of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem

Shevat 15 Tu BiShvat The new year of the trees, marked by planting

Adar 14 Purim The rescue of the Jews of Persia in the Book of Esther

Nisan 10 Yom HaAliyah The day of immigration, recognized by law in 2016

Nisan 15 Passover The exodus from Egypt

Nisan 27 Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a siren across the country

Iyar 4 Yom HaZikaron Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, moved earlier when needed

Iyar 5 Yom HaAtzmaut Independence Day, for 14 May 1948

Iyar 10 Herzl Day The birthday of Theodor Herzl

Iyar 18 Lag BaOmer Tied by tradition to the Bar Kokhba revolt, marked with bonfires

Iyar 28 Yom Yerushalayim Jerusalem Day, for the reunification of the city in June 1967

Sivan 6 Shavuot The giving of the Torah at Sinai and the first fruits

Av 9 Tisha B’Av The destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and the Second in 70 CE