21

March

2021

Israel Completes Operation Tzur Yisrael,

5

February

2021

Ruth Dayan Passes Away

Jews in Entertainment

Jews in Politics

25

June

2006

Gilad Shalit is Taken Hostage by Hamas

22

August

2005

IDF Evacuates Remaining Jewish Israeli Citizens Living in the Gaza Strip

1

February

2003

Columbia Space Shuttle Disintegrates When Returning to Earth

1

June

2001

Dolphinarium nightclub Suicide Bombing in Tel Aviv

9

March

1992

Menachem Begin Passes Away

Jews in Politics

9

February

1986

Yisrael Galili Passes Away

5

January

1985

IDF Completes Operation Moses

18

May

1965

Eli Cohen is executed by Syrian authorities

23

April

1982

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Evacuate Israelis from the Village of Yamit

Jews in Politics

21

February

1980

Egyptian Diplomats Arrive in Tel Aviv to Open Country's First Embassy in Israel

25

November

1979

Israel Surrenders the Alma Oil Field to Egypt

26

March

1979

Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty is Signed

Jews in Politics

30

May

1972

Lod Airport Massacre

8

May

1972

Sebena Flight 571 is Hijacked by Black September

18

May

1971

The Night of the Black Panthers Begins

17

March

1969

Golda Meir Becomes Israel's First Female Prime Minister

Jews in Politics

3

March

1971

Saadia Marciano Establishes the Israeli Black Panthers

30

August

1969

Knesset Building is Inaugurated and Dedicated in Jerusalem

23

July

1968

El-Al Flight 426 is Hijacked

18

May

1965

Eli Cohen is Executed

Jews in Politics

7

August

1955

Bar-Ilan University is Conceived

8

September

1952

West Germany and Israel Agree to Reparations Deal

14

February

1949

Knesset Convenes for its Inaugural Session

Jews in Politics

5

July

1950

Knesset Passes Law of Return

25

January

1949

Israel Holds First National Elections

9

June

1856

Altalena Affair Takes Place

26

May

1948

Israel Defense Forces is Established

13

May

1948

The Kfar Etzion Massacre

14

May

1948

State of Israel is Founded

22

February

1948

The Golani Brigade is Established

9

April

1948

Deir Yassin Massacre

11

July

1947

4,500 Jews Sail Aboard SS Exodus

16

April

1947

British Administration in Mandatory Palestine Execute Four Members of Irgun

14

February

1947

Great Britain Gives Control of Palestine Mandate to the United Nations

16

June

1946

Operation Markolet Launched

7

November

1944

Hungarian Arrow Cross Regime Execute Poet Hannah Szenes

12

February

1942

Avraham (Yair) Stern is Killed

15

May

1941

The Palmach is Established

12

March

1940

Max Bodenheimer Passes Away

Jews in Politics

3

January

1939

Arik Einstein is Born

Jews in Entertainment

7

June

1930

Magen David Adom is Established

11

August

1929

The Jewish Agency for Israel is Founded

26

February

1928

Ariel Sharon is Born

Jews in Politics

24

July

1924

League of Nations Ratifies the Balfour Declaration.

23

April

1923

Shlomo Hillel is Born

24

July

1922

The League of Nations Ratifies the Balfour Declaration

24

August

1919

Tosia (Tova) Altman’s Birthday

19

January

1919

Yoel Palgi is Born

14

March

1918

Abba Kovner is Born

13

January

1917

Mendel Portugali Passes Away

12

March

1915

Vladimir “Ze’ev” Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor Found the Jewish Legion of the British Army

23

February

1913

Solomon Schechter Starts the United Synagogue of America

29

August

1910

Georges Loinger’s Birthday

11

April

1909

Tel Aviv is Founded

3

July

1904

Theodor Herzl Dies

29

March

1900

Mordechai Bentov is Born

Jews in Politics

14

February

1896

Theodor Herzl Publishes Der Judenstaat, “The Jewish State.”

19

February

1888

Rachel Kagan-Cohen is Born

Jews in Politics

2

May

1860

Theodor Herzl is Born

Jews in Politics

9

June

1856

A.D Gordon is Born

18

January

1854

Judah Touro Passes Away

24

July

1834

Hebron Massacre Takes Place

22

March

1851

Mordecai Manuel Noah Passes Away

Jews in Entertainment

Jews in Politics

31

January

1848

Nathan Straus is Born

10

February

1834

Isaac Ruff is Born

25

March

1795

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer is Born in Posen, Poland

Rabbinic Judaism