CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published July 22, 2021
July 22, 1939 — Actress Gila Almagor Is Born
Gila Almagor, the “queen of the Israeli cinema and theater,” is born in Haifa four months after a sniper killed her policeman father. She makes her debut for the Habima Theatre at age 17 in “The Skin...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published July 15, 2021
July 15, 1965 — Rabin Warns Against Diversion of Jordan River
The Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin, warns Lebanon and Syria they will face consequences if they move forward with an Arab League-backed effort to divert the sources...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published July 8, 2021
July 8, 1989 — Judo Champ Yarden Gerbi Is Born
Judo champion Yarden Gerbi is born in Kfar Saba. Gerbi wins eight national championships in her career and rises to the top of the world rankings in May 2013. She defeats European champion Clarisse Agbegnenou...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published July 1, 2021
July 1, 1973 — Israeli Military Attache Is Killed in Maryland
Col. Yosef “Joe” Alon, a military attache at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, is shot five times in his driveway in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and dies within an hour at a hospital....
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published June 18, 2021
June 17, 1939 — Refugee Ship St. Louis Returns to Europe
The SS St. Louis, carrying Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria, completes its crossing of the Atlantic back to Europe after Cuba and the United States refused to admit almost all of its...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published June 3, 2021
June 3, 1974 — Rabin First Becomes Prime Minister
After defeating Shimon Peres for the Labor Party leadership, Yitzhak Rabin becomes Israel’s fifth prime minister when he presents his coalition government to the Knesset. In succeeding Golda Meir,...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published May 28, 2021
May 27, 1911 — Longtime Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek Is Born
Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem’s mayor from 1965 to 1993, is born in a Budapest suburb. His parents name him after Theodor Herzl. After growing up in Vienna, he moves to Palestine with his family...
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published May 20, 2021
May 20, 1948 — Swede Is Named Peace Mediator
Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat, is appointed by the U.N. Security Council to serve as the mediator for Middle East peace efforts five days into Israel’s War of Independence. Although he succeeds...
Center for Israel Education
• Published May 13, 2021
May 13, 1975 — Israel, U.S. Sign Economic Pact
The United States and Israel sign a wide-ranging economic agreement at the end of a two-day summit chaired by U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon and Israeli Foreign Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz in Washington....
CENTER FOR ISRAEL EDUCATION
• Published May 6, 2021
May 6, 1947 — Lehi Teenager Disappears
Alexander Rubowitz, 16, a member of the youth wing of Lehi (the Stern Gang), is chased, caught and forced into a car by a large, athletic man in Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood while distributing propaganda....
Center for Israel Education
• Published April 29, 2021
April 29, 1976 — Meretz Politician Tamar Zandberg Is Born
Meretz legislator Tamar Zandberg is born in Ramat Gan. An urban environmentalist and social democrat known for advocacy on women’s issues, she wins a Tel Aviv City Council seat in 2008. She...
Center for Israel Education
• Published April 15, 2021
April 15, 1945 — Bergen-Belsen Is Liberated
The British 11th Armored Division liberates the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank is among an estimated 50,000 Jews and others who die in the final two years of World War II. About...
