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Execution of Dov Gruner (1947)
04/19/2026
Dov Bela Gruner was executed by the British and Egyptian authorities.
San Remo's mandate: Israel's 'Magna carta' (1920)
04/25/2026
The San Remo Conference which took place on April 19, 1920, lasted for seven days and published its resolutions on April 25, 1920.
Theodor Herzl’s Birthday (1860)
05/02/2026
Sabena rescue (1972)
05/08/2026
Sabena Flight 571 was a scheduled passenger flight from Brussels to Israel via Vienna operated by the Belgian national airline, Sabena in 1972. The plane was hijacked by an arab terrorist group.
Declaration Day of Israel's Independence!! (1948)
05/15/2026
May 14, 1948 In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country.
War of Independence (1948-1949)
05/15/2026 - 03/10/2027
The war of Independence last about six months and was the most costly of human lives, resulting in 6,373 people killed in battle.
Execution of Eli Cohen (1965)
05/18/2026
Eliyahu Ben-Shaul Cohen was an Israeli spy who worked in 1961–1965 for the Mossad in Damascus, Syria, where he developed close relationships with the political and military hierarchy and became the Chief Adviser to the Syrian Minister of Defense.
Operation Solomon (1991)
05/25/2026
Larger than Operation Moses and Operation Joshua, Operation Solomon was the biggest covert Israeli military operation to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel from May 24 to May 25, 1991.
Creation Of The Israel Defense Forces (1948)
05/31/2026
On May 31, 1948, The Israel Defense Forces was officially created under the leadership of the new Jewish State of Israel.
Execution of Adolf Eichmann in Israel (1962)
06/01/2026
Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian Nazi leader and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust as long as he was involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II.
Six Day War
06/05/2026 - 06/11/2026
Within the brief span of six days, the IDF overran the Sinai peninsula; took the entire West Bank of the River Jordan; and captured a great part of the Golan Heights.
Six-Day War: Israel History (1967)
06/05/2026 - 06/10/2021
Magen David Adom was founded (1915)
06/06/2026
In 1915 the concept of "Magen David Adom" was conceived in Switzerland as an association to help the wounded and Jewish prisoners during World War I.
HaTikvah was commissioned as Israel National Anthem (1948)
06/09/2026
Hatikva, which means hope in Hebrew, is the national anthem of Israel. The letter of the poem was written in the year 1878 by Naftali Herz for the foundation of Petach Tikva, one of the first Jewish settlements in the Palestine of the Ottoman Empire.
Emile Zola published his open letter (J’accuse) in Paris (1898)
06/13/2026
The French writer Emile Zola penned a newspaper article in 1898 in which he called out his government for its mishandling of the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious anti-Semitic incident in France.
Shelling of the Altalena (1948)
06/20/2026
The Altalena case was a violent confrontation that took place in June 1948 by the newly created Israel Defense Forces (leadered by David Ben-Gurion) against the Irgun (leadered by Menachem Begin) a Jewish paramilitary group.
Operation Entebbe (1976)
07/04/2026
On July 4th, 1976, Operation Entebbe a hostage-rescue mission, was carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
Murder of Alexander Zaid (1938)
07/10/2026
Alexander Zaid was born in Siberia, state of the Russian Empire in 1886. In 1904 he moved to Palestine, as one of the first pioneers of the Second Aliyah to reach Eretz Israel.
Exodus (1947)
07/11/2026 - 07/18/2026
The Exodus 1947 left Sète, France in the morning of July 11, 1947. It was carrying 4,515 passengers including 1,600 men, 1,282 women, and 1,672 children and teenagers.
Anniversary of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine as a Jewish State (1922)
07/24/2026
On July 24, 1922, the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations, officially recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine,” and agreed to the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
First Zionist Congress (1897)
08/31/2026
In Basil Switzerland, Theodor Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress which established the World Zionist Organization.
Munich Massacre (1972)
09/05/2026
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and murdered by the Black September terrorist organization.
Anniversary of Ararat Dedication
09/28/2026
Rachel Bluwstein's birthday (1890)
09/29/2026
Yom Kippur War
10/06/2026 - 10/25/2022
Indigenous Peoples Day
10/08/2026
Official Adoption of Flag of Israel (1948)
10/28/2026
73 years ago today, Israel adopted the blue and white star of David flag as the official flag of Israel. Since then, the flag has been a symbol of liberation and human rights for Jews around the world.
Kibbutz Degania settled 1910
10/29/2026
Balfour Day
11/02/2026 (All day)
A call for celebration! On November 2, 1917, the Jewish people received public validation of our ancient hope and another step towards building a state of our own!
Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995)
11/04/2026
On November 4, 1995, during a peace rally in Tel-Aviv, a gentleman came out from the crowd, shooting Rabin twice at close range. He was later pronounced dead at Tel-Aviv Hospital.
Hannah Senesh Executed
11/07/2026
Commemoration of Kristallnacht (1939)
11/09/2026
On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich.
Partition Day (1947)
11/29/2026
1947 --The United Nations votes to establish a Jewish State and an Arab State in Palestine, the area of the former British Mandate.
Jewish Refugee Day
11/30/2026
Jerusalem Declared capital of Israel
12/05/2026
On 5 December 1949, Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, proclaimed Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Faisal-Weizmann Agreement Is Signed (1919)
01/03/2027
At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal (son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca in the name of the Arab State of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (Zionist diplomat and leader in the name of the Zionist Organization) sign the Faisal-Weizmann agreement.