This Day in History
Events from Israel’s story, by date on the Gregorian calendar. Under each one is the same day on the Hebrew calendar, in the year it happened.
January
- 31919 Emir Faisal and Chaim Weizmann sign an agreement on Arab and Jewish cooperation.2 Shevat 5679
- 42006 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers the stroke that ends his career.4 Tevet 5766
- 51895 Alfred Dreyfus is publicly stripped of his rank in Paris, and Theodor Herzl watches.9 Tevet 5655
- 131898 Emile Zola publishes “J’accuse” in defense of Dreyfus.19 Tevet 5658
- 162003 Ilan Ramon lifts off as Israel’s first astronaut aboard the space shuttle Columbia.13 Shevat 5763
- 181974 Israel and Egypt sign the first Sinai disengagement agreement.24 Tevet 5734
- 181991 Iraqi Scud missiles hit Tel Aviv and Haifa in the Gulf War.3 Shevat 5751
- 201942 The Wannsee Conference in Berlin coordinates the “Final Solution.”2 Shevat 5702
- 251949 Israel holds its first national elections, for the Constituent Assembly.24 Tevet 5709
- 252006 Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.25 Tevet 5766
- 271945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.13 Shevat 5705
February
- 12003 The space shuttle Columbia breaks up on return, killing Ilan Ramon and six others.29 Shevat 5763
- 62001 Ariel Sharon is elected prime minister.13 Shevat 5761
- 71939 The London Conference on Palestine opens and ends without agreement.18 Shevat 5699
- 141896 Theodor Herzl publishes “Der Judenstaat,” The Jewish State.30 Shevat 5656
- 141949 The first Knesset convenes in Jerusalem.15 Shevat 5709
- 161949 Chaim Weizmann is elected the first president of Israel.17 Shevat 5709
- 221948 A bombing on Ben-Yehuda Street in Jerusalem kills about 50.12 Adar I 5708
- 241949 Israel and Egypt sign the first armistice agreement, on the island of Rhodes.25 Shevat 5709
- 251994 A gunman kills 29 Palestinian worshippers at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.14 Adar 5754
- 261928 Ariel Sharon is born in Kfar Malal.5 Adar 5688
- 261969 Prime Minister Levi Eshkol dies in office.8 Adar 5729
March
- 11920 Joseph Trumpeldor and seven others die defending Tel Hai.11 Adar 5680
- 11922 Yitzhak Rabin is born in Jerusalem.1 Adar 5682
- 31996 A suicide bomber on Bus 18 in Jerusalem kills 19.12 Adar 5756
- 41996 A bomb at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv kills 13.13 Adar 5756
- 91992 Menachem Begin dies in Jerusalem.4 Adar II 5752
- 111978 Terrorists hijack a bus on the Coastal Road, and 38 civilians die.2 Adar II 5738
- 131881 Tsar Alexander II is assassinated and pogroms follow across Russia.12 Adar II 5641
- 211968 Israeli forces fight the Battle of Karameh in Jordan.21 Adar 5728
- 222004 Israel kills Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin in Gaza.29 Adar 5764
- 231949 Israel and Lebanon sign an armistice agreement.22 Adar 5709
- 261979 Israel and Egypt sign their peace treaty at the White House.27 Adar 5739
- 272002 A suicide bomber kills 30 at a Passover seder in Netanya.14 Nisan 5762
- 292002 Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank.16 Nisan 5762
April
- 11925 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem opens on Mount Scopus.7 Nisan 5685
- 31949 Israel and Jordan sign an armistice agreement.4 Nisan 5709
- 41920 Riots during the Nebi Musa festival in Jerusalem kill five Jews.16 Nisan 5680
- 72011 Iron Dome makes its first interception of a rocket from Gaza.3 Nisan 5771
- 91948 Irgun and Lehi fighters attack the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem.29 Adar II 5708
- 111909 Sixty families draw lots for plots in the new suburb that becomes Tel Aviv.20 Nisan 5669
- 111912 The cornerstone of the Technion is laid in Haifa.24 Nisan 5672
- 111961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann opens in Jerusalem.25 Nisan 5721
- 112019 The Israeli lander Beresheet crashes while trying to land on the Moon.6 Nisan 5779
- 131948 Arabs ambush a convoy to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus, killing 78.4 Nisan 5708
- 191936 The Arab Revolt begins in Jaffa.27 Nisan 5696
- 191943 The Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins.14 Nisan 5703
- 251920 The San Remo Conference gives Britain the Mandate for Palestine.7 Iyar 5680
- 251982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.2 Iyar 5742
May
- 11921 Riots in Jaffa kill dozens of Jews and Arabs.23 Nisan 5681
- 21860 Theodor Herzl is born in Budapest.10 Iyar 5620
- 21980 Gunmen kill six yeshiva students in Hebron.16 Iyar 5740
- 31898 Golda Meir is born in Kiev.11 Iyar 5658
- 41939 Amos Oz is born in Jerusalem.15 Iyar 5699
- 41994 Israel and the PLO sign the Gaza–Jericho agreement in Cairo.23 Iyar 5754
- 81945 Germany surrenders and the war in Europe ends.25 Iyar 5705
- 91998 Dana International wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Israel.13 Iyar 5758
- 111949 Israel is admitted to the United Nations.12 Iyar 5709
- 122018 Netta Barzilai wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon.27 Iyar 5778
- 131948 Kfar Etzion falls to the Arab Legion.4 Iyar 5708
- 141948 David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel in Tel Aviv.5 Iyar 5708
- 151941 The Haganah forms the Palmach as its strike force.18 Iyar 5701
- 151948 Armies of five Arab states attack the new state.6 Iyar 5708
- 151974 Terrorists seize a school in Ma’alot, and 25 people die.23 Iyar 5734
- 161916 Britain and France sign the Sykes–Picot Agreement.13 Iyar 5676
- 171939 The British White Paper limits Jewish immigration and land purchase.28 Iyar 5699
- 171977 Likud wins the elections and ends 29 years of Labor rule.29 Iyar 5737
- 171983 Israel and Lebanon sign an agreement, later canceled.5 Sivan 5743
- 171999 Ehud Barak is elected prime minister.2 Sivan 5759
- 181965 Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus.16 Iyar 5725
- 201915 Moshe Dayan is born at Degania.7 Sivan 5675
- 221967 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.12 Iyar 5727
- 231960 Ben-Gurion announces that Adolf Eichmann has been captured.26 Iyar 5720
- 241991 Operation Solomon begins, airlifting 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in 36 hours.11 Sivan 5751
- 242000 Israel completes its withdrawal from southern Lebanon.19 Iyar 5760
- 261924 The United States passes a law that sharply cuts Jewish immigration.22 Iyar 5684
- 261948 The Israel Defense Forces are formed.17 Iyar 5708
- 281948 The Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem surrenders.19 Iyar 5708
- 291996 Benjamin Netanyahu is elected prime minister.11 Sivan 5756
- 301972 Terrorists kill 26 at Lod Airport.17 Sivan 5732
- 311974 Israel and Syria sign a disengagement agreement on the Golan.10 Sivan 5734
June
- 11962 Adolf Eichmann is hanged, the only civil execution in Israeli history.28 Iyar 5722
- 12001 A suicide bomber kills 21 young people at the Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv.10 Sivan 5761
- 51967 The Six-Day War begins with Israeli air strikes on Egypt.26 Iyar 5727
- 61982 Israel invades Lebanon in Operation Peace for Galilee.15 Sivan 5742
- 71967 Israeli paratroopers reach the Western Wall in the Old City.28 Iyar 5727
- 71981 Israeli jets destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq.5 Sivan 5741
- 101916 The Arab Revolt begins against the Ottomans.9 Sivan 5676
- 101967 The ceasefire takes hold on the Golan Heights and the Six-Day War ends.2 Sivan 5727
- 161933 Haim Arlosoroff is assassinated on a Tel Aviv beach.22 Sivan 5693
- 201977 Menachem Begin becomes prime minister.4 Tammuz 5737
- 271976 Terrorists hijack an Air France plane to Entebbe, Uganda.29 Sivan 5736
- 281967 Israel extends its law and administration to East Jerusalem.20 Sivan 5727
- 291946 Britain arrests Jewish leaders on “Black Sabbath.”30 Sivan 5706
July
- 11920 Herbert Samuel arrives as the first British High Commissioner.15 Tammuz 5680
- 31904 Theodor Herzl dies in Austria at 44.20 Tammuz 5664
- 41934 Hayim Nahman Bialik dies in Vienna.21 Tammuz 5694
- 41976 Israeli commandos free the Entebbe hostages. Yoni Netanyahu is killed.6 Tammuz 5736
- 51950 The Knesset passes the Law of Return.20 Tammuz 5710
- 71937 The Peel Commission proposes partition. Arab leaders reject it.28 Tammuz 5697
- 82014 Israel launches Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.10 Tammuz 5774
- 111927 An earthquake kills hundreds in the land.11 Tammuz 5687
- 112000 The Camp David summit opens between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat.8 Tammuz 5760
- 122006 Hezbollah attacks across the border and the Second Lebanon War begins.16 Tammuz 5766
- 131930 Naomi Shemer, author of “Jerusalem of Gold,” is born at Kibbutz Kinneret.17 Tammuz 5690
- 181947 British forces seize the ship Exodus 1947 off Haifa.1 Av 5707
- 192018 The Knesset passes the Nation-State Law.7 Av 5778
- 201949 Israel and Syria sign an armistice agreement.23 Tammuz 5709
- 221946 Irgun bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91.23 Tammuz 5706
- 241922 The League of Nations confirms the British Mandate.28 Tammuz 5682
- 261956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal.18 Av 5716
- 281885 Sir Moses Montefiore dies at 100.16 Av 5645
- 301980 The Knesset passes the Basic Law that declares Jerusalem the capital.17 Av 5740
August
- 21923 Shimon Peres is born in Wiszniew, then in Poland.20 Av 5683
- 71970 A ceasefire ends the War of Attrition along the Suez Canal.5 Av 5730
- 92001 A suicide bomber kills 15 at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem.20 Av 5761
- 142006 A ceasefire ends the Second Lebanon War.20 Av 5766
- 152005 Israel begins the Disengagement from Gaza.10 Av 5765
- 161913 Menachem Begin is born in Brest-Litovsk.13 Av 5673
- 211969 A fire damages the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.7 Elul 5729
- 231929 Riots begin across the land. In Hebron 67 Jews are killed.17 Av 5689
- 251933 The Haavara agreement lets German Jews move some assets to the land.3 Elul 5693
- 291897 Herzl opens the First Zionist Congress in Basel.1 Elul 5657
September
- 11939 The Second World War begins.17 Elul 5699
- 51972 Terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.26 Elul 5732
- 122005 The last Israeli soldier leaves Gaza.8 Elul 5765
- 131993 Rabin and Arafat shake hands at the White House after the Oslo Accords.27 Elul 5753
- 152020 Israel signs the Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain.26 Elul 5780
- 161922 Britain excludes Transjordan from the Jewish national home.23 Elul 5682
- 161982 Lebanese militias begin the massacre at Sabra and Shatila.28 Elul 5742
- 171948 Lehi gunmen assassinate the UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte.13 Elul 5708
- 171978 Begin and Sadat sign the Camp David Accords.15 Elul 5738
- 191899 Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.15 Tishrei 5660
- 191918 Allenby wins the Battle of Megiddo.13 Tishrei 5679
- 191988 Israel launches its first satellite, Ofek 1.8 Tishrei 5749
- 241928 A Yom Kippur dispute at the Western Wall inflames tensions.10 Tishrei 5689
- 282000 Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount and the Second Intifada begins.28 Elul 5760
- 282016 Shimon Peres dies at 93.25 Elul 5776
October
- 21938 Arab gunmen kill 19 Jews in the Tiberias massacre.7 Tishrei 5699
- 61973 Egypt and Syria attack on Yom Kippur.10 Tishrei 5734
- 72023 Hamas attacks southern Israel and the war in Gaza begins.22 Tishrei 5784
- 161886 David Ben-Gurion is born in Plonsk.17 Tishrei 5647
- 172001 Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi is assassinated in Jerusalem.30 Tishrei 5762
- 182011 Gilad Shalit is freed after more than five years in captivity.20 Tishrei 5772
- 221973 The UN ceasefire takes hold in the Yom Kippur War.26 Tishrei 5734
- 231998 Netanyahu and Arafat sign the Wye River Memorandum.3 Cheshvan 5759
- 261994 Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty.21 Cheshvan 5755
- 291956 Israel invades Sinai in the Suez Crisis.24 Cheshvan 5717
- 301991 The Madrid Peace Conference opens.22 Cheshvan 5752
- 311917 British forces take Beersheba.15 Cheshvan 5678
November
- 21898 Herzl meets Kaiser Wilhelm II outside Jerusalem.17 Cheshvan 5659
- 21917 Britain issues the Balfour Declaration.17 Cheshvan 5678
- 41995 Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated in Tel Aviv.11 Cheshvan 5756
- 61944 Lehi assassinates Lord Moyne, the British minister in Cairo.20 Cheshvan 5705
- 71944 Hannah Szenes is executed in Budapest.21 Cheshvan 5705
- 91938 Kristallnacht burns synagogues across Germany.15 Cheshvan 5699
- 112004 Yasser Arafat dies in Paris.27 Cheshvan 5765
- 151988 The PLO declares an independent state of Palestine in Algiers.6 Kislev 5749
- 191977 Anwar Sadat lands in Israel and the next day addresses the Knesset.9 Kislev 5738
- 221967 The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 242.19 Cheshvan 5728
- 271874 Chaim Weizmann is born in Belarus.18 Kislev 5635
- 291947 The UN General Assembly votes to partition Palestine.16 Kislev 5708
December
- 11973 David Ben-Gurion dies at Sde Boker.6 Kislev 5734
- 62017 The United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.18 Kislev 5778
- 81978 Golda Meir dies in Jerusalem.8 Kislev 5739
- 91917 Jerusalem surrenders to British forces. Allenby enters on foot on December 11.24 Kislev 5678
- 91987 The First Intifada begins in Gaza.18 Kislev 5748
- 101966 S. Y. Agnon receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.27 Kislev 5727
- 101978 Begin and Sadat receive the Nobel Peace Prize.10 Kislev 5739
- 101994 Rabin, Peres and Arafat receive the Nobel Peace Prize.7 Tevet 5755
- 141981 Israel extends its law to the Golan Heights.18 Kislev 5742
- 161922 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda dies in Jerusalem.26 Kislev 5683
- 261936 Arturo Toscanini conducts the first concert of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra.12 Tevet 5697
- 272008 Israel launches Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.30 Kislev 5769
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Israel in Time (2027), This Day in History, pp. 50 to 55, israelnowlej.com/this-day
Hebrew dates were computed from the calendar rules. Corrections are welcome at Contact.