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...
Center for Israel Education (israeled.org)
• Published April 8, 2021
April 8, 1960 — U.N. Head Protests Egyptian Seizure of CargoU.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold for the first time publicly criticizes Egypt for confiscating Israeli cargo on ships passing through the Suez Canal. Israel fought Egypt in 1956 in large...
Center for Israel Education (israeled.org)
• Published January 28, 2021
Jan. 28, 1996 — Dumping of Ethiopian Blood Sparks RiotsAbout 10,000 Ethiopian Jews demonstrate outside Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ office to protest the government’s decision to accept blood donations from thousands of Ethiopian Israelis, only...
By the Center for Israel Education (israeled.org)
• Published December 31, 2020
Dec. 31, 1898: Israel Museum Founder Is BornEliyahu Dobkin, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who founds the Israel Museum, is born in Bobruysk, Belarus. He immigrates to Palestine in 1932. He works with the Jewish Agency’s immigration department...
July 2, 2010: Benayoun signs with ChelseaIsraeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun leaves Liverpool for fellow English Premier League club Chelsea, owned by Russian-Israeli billionaire Roman Abramovich. Benayoun, born in Dimona in 1980, began his professional...
June 18, 1992: Painter Mordecai Ardon diesPainter Mordecai Ardon dies at age 95 in Jerusalem. He studied with the Bauhaus school in Berlin, and he changed his name from Max Bronstein a few years after making aliyah in 1933. His work featured symbolism,...
Jan. 30, 1958: U.S. Commits to Baghdad PactDuring a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles says the United States is committed to the defense of the Baghdad Pact nations: the Muslim-majority states of Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and...
By the Center for Israel Education
• Published November 2, 2018
Nov. 1, 1965: 6th Knesset Elected: In elections for the sixth Knesset, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol retains his office as the Alignment, a left-leaning merger of Eshkol’s Mapai and Ahdut Ha’Avoda, wins 45 of the 120 seats. Rafi, a Mapai breakaway founded...
By the Center for Israel Education
• Published October 18, 2018
Oct. 18, 1991: Israeli-Soviet thawThe Soviet Union and Israel resume full diplomatic relations for the first time since June 1967. The two countries experienced a thaw while Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union and established consular ties in 1987....
By the Center for Israel Education
• Published October 11, 2018
Oct. 11, 1938 — Arab Congress Rejects Partition: Arab leaders conclude a four-day conference in Cairo by adopting the Resolutions of the Inter-Parliamentary Congress, a response to the proposal of the British Peel Commission in 1937 to partition Palestine...
By the Center for Israel Education
• Published September 28, 2018
Sept. 27, 1950: Third Maccabiah Games: The Third Maccabiah Games, originally scheduled for 1938 but canceled by the British, begin in the 50,000-seat stadium in Ramat Gan. The first games held in an independent Israel draw 800 athletes from 20 countries. Sept....
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• Published August 31, 2018
Aug. 30, 1944 — Harold MacMichael Ends Term in Palestine: Rattled by numerous attempts on his life and fearing for the safety of his family, Harold MacMichael resigns as Britain’s fifth high commissioner to Palestine after more than six years, a...
