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The Arab Strike that led to Arab Revolt, Begins, 1936
On This Day in Jewish History: April 19, 1936 On April 19, 1936, Arab workers launched a strike in response to growing Jewish immigration...
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Israeli Singer, Ofra Haza, Passes Away, 2000
OTDJH: February 23, 2000 https://www.instagram.com/p/CaUwYv2tepR/ On this day, 2000, Israeli-Yemenite Jewish icon, Ofra Haza, passed away....
Ruth Dayan, Israeli Fashion Designer & Activist, Passes Away, 2021
On This Day in Jewish History: February 5th, 2021 Born in Haifa on March 6, 1917, to Russian parents, Ruth spent much of her childhood in...
On This Week in Jewish History (January 23-29)
In collaboration with @jewishperspective on Instagram, we have begun to accumulate events in Jewish history week by week. One can find...
Ze’ev Jabotinsky is Born, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: October 18, 1880 On this day, 1880, Ze’ev Jabotinsky was born. Jabotinsky is most famously known as the...
Mania Shochat, Political Activist, is born, 1880
On This Day in Jewish History: October 11, 1880 Born on October 11, 1880 in Western Russia (modern day Belarus), Mania Wilbushewitch...
"Spiritual Mother" Ada Maimon, is born, 1893
On This Day in Jewish History: October 8, 1893 Born in Marculesti, Bessarabia (Romania), Ada Maimon was the daughter of Rabbi and scribe...
Oslo Accord I Signed Between Israel and PLO, 1993
On This Day in Jewish History: September 13, 1993 On this day, 1993, Oslo Accord I was signed on the White House lawn by Israel and the...
West Germany and Israel Agree on 'Reparations' Deal, 1952
On This Day in Jewish History: September 8, 1952.. The Reparations Agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany was to...
Renowned Jewish Violinist, Itzhak Perlman, is born, 1945.
On This Day in Jewish History: August 31, 1945. Itzhak Perlman, perhaps the greatest living classical violinist, was born on this day in...
The Uganda Plan is Proposed, 1903
On This Day in Jewish History: August 26, 1903 On this day, 1903, the Uganda Scheme was proposed by Theodor Herzl at the Sixth World...
Hebron Massacre Takes Place, 1929
On This Day in Jewish History: August 23, 1929 On this day, the evening of 23rd August 1929, the ‘Hebron Massacre’ commenced. Ending on...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, is born, 1913
On This Day in Jewish History: August 16, 1913 Warrior, that is the word we can use to describe one of Israel’s most legendary leaders,...
One of Israel’s national poets, literary legends and political voices, Natan Alterman, is born, 1929
In his lifetime, Natan Alterman would go on to become one of Israel’s national poets, as a literary legend and a political voice. Born in...
Eleazar Lipa Sukenik, Pioneer of Jewish Archeology, is Born, 1889
On This Day in Jewish History: August 12, 1889 Eleazar Lipa Sukenik was a pioneer of Jewish archaeology in the Land of Israel. He was a...
Max Bodenheimer is born, 1865
On This Day in Jewish History: March 12, 1865 Max Bodenheimer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1865, to an assimilated Jewish family. He...
Renowned Architect, Moshe Safdie is born, 1938
On This Day in Jewish History: July 14, 1938 Born in Haifa, British Mandatory Palestine (now Israel), Moshe Safdie has become one of the...
Exodus 1947 Ship Sails from France to Israel with 4,500 Holocaust survivors
On This Day in Jewish History: July 11, 1947 . On this day 4,500 Jewish Refugees sail on board the SS Exodus. The ship that made the...
Alexander Zaid is Murdered, 1938
On This Day in Jewish History: July 10, 1938 . Alexander Zaid, one of the pioneers of the Second Aliyah to reach Eretz Yisrael in 1904,...
Birthday of Nahum Goldmann, 1895
On This Day in Jewish History: July 10, 1895 #OTDJH: July 10, 1895 On this day in 1895, Nahum Goldmann, President of the World Zionist...