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Davidka Mortar First Used

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March 13, 1948 The Davidka, a mortar designed and manufactured at the Mikveh Israel agricultural school for use in Israel’s fight for independence, is used in combat for the first time in an attack on…

Today in Israeli History|March 13, 1948
Irgun Blasts Prisoners out of Acre

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May 4, 1947 The Irgun sets off explosives at 4:22 p.m. to blast open a hole in the wall of the Acre (Akko) fortress, used as a prison by the British Mandatory authorities, in an…

Today in Israeli History|May 4, 1947
Irgun Flogs British Troops in Streets

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December 29, 1946 The underground militant movement Irgun carries out the Night of the Beatings, an effort across Palestine to flog British soldiers in retribution for the lashing of captured Irgun members. Irgun members abduct…

Today in Israeli History|December 29, 1946
British Round Up Resistance Fighters

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June 29, 1946 The British military launches Operation Agatha, a two-week series of raids and arrests of Jewish resistance fighters, on a day that comes to be known as Black Sabbath. Involving some 17,000 soldiers,…

Today in Israeli History|June 29, 1946
Shin Bet Head Ami Ayalon Is Born

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June 27, 1945 Ami Ayalon, who leads the Shin Bet and the Israeli navy, is born in Tiberias. He serves in the navy from 1963 to 1996. He volunteers for the Shayetet 13 commando unit,…

Today in Israeli History|June 27, 1945
Haganah Founder Eliyahu Golomb Dies

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Eliyahu Golomb, prominent leader of the Jewish defense effort in Palestine, passed away at the age of 52.

Today in Israeli History|June 11, 1945
Nazis Kill Palmach Paratrooper Haviva Reik

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November 20, 1944 Haviva Reik and two other paratroopers from British Mandatory Palestine are among about 40 Jewish fighters executed by the Nazis after the suppression of an uprising in Slovakia. Reik, who was born…

Today in Israeli History|November 20, 1944
Hannah Senesh Is Executed

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Hannah Senesh (Szenes), the poet and Haganah fighter who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe to rescue Jews, is executed by Hungarian firing squad in a Budapest prison courtyard.

Today in Israeli History|November 7, 1944
Haganah Forms Elite Palmach

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The Palmach, an elite strike force of the Haganah, goes on to play a significant role in the 1948-1949 war.

Today in Israeli History|May 15, 1941
Refugee Ship Patria Is Sunk

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November 25, 1940 A Haganah bomb does more damage than intended to the immigrant transport ship SS Patria, which sinks within 16 minutes in Haifa’s harbor, killing 267 people, including members of the British crew,…

Today in Israeli History|November 25, 1940
Irgun Radio Begins Broadcasting

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March 15, 1939 Kol Tzion HaLokhemet (“Voice of the Fighting Zion”), the underground radio network operated by the Irgun, sends out its first broadcasts across Palestine as Esther Raziel-Naor hits the airwaves. The network broadcasts…

Today in Israeli History|March 15, 1939
Mosul-Haifa Pipeline Opens

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The Mosul-Haifa pipeline, which spans 590 miles, connects the Mosul oil fields and the Mediterranean Sea. It begins in Kirkuk, Iraq and ends in Haifa.

Today in Israeli History|January 4, 1935
Magen David Adom Is Founded

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The idea of an emergency medical society such as Magen David Adom is revived in response to the 1929 Arab riots against Jewish settlements in Palestine.

Today in Israeli History|June 7, 1930
Gen. Rafael Eitan Is Born

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January 11, 1929 Rafael Eitan, the 11th chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, is born in Tel Adashim to a mother whose family immigrated to Palestine during the First Aliyah and a father…

Today in Israeli History|January 11, 1929
Ariel Sharon Is Born

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Ariel Sharon, Israel’s 11th Prime Minister, is born in K’far Malal (near Hod Hasharon). Born Ariel Scheinerman to political, socialist parents who had come to Eretz Yisrael during the Second Aliyah, Sharon joined the Haganah in 1945, serving in the War of Independence.

Today in Israeli History|February 27, 1928
Israeli Spymaster Rafi Eitan Is Born

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November 23, 1926 Rafi Eitan, whose intelligence career ranges from the high of capturing Adolf Eichmann in Argentina to the low of handling U.S. Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard as a spy, is born on a…

Today in Israeli History|November 23, 1926
Gen. Haim Bar-Lev Is Born

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November 16, 1924 Haim Bar-Lev, an Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is born in Vienna, Austria. His family moves to Yugoslavia before settling in Palestine in 1939. He studies at the Mikveh Israel agricultural…

Today in Israeli History|November 16, 1924
Gen. Avraham Tamir Is Born

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November 9, 1924 Avraham Tamir, a military strategic mastermind who rises to the rank of major general, is born. He is one of the first Israeli officials to meet with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and…

Today in Israeli History|November 9, 1924
Yitzhak Rabin Is Born

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Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s 5th Prime Minister, is born in Jerusalem to parents who came to Israel during the Third Aliyah. He is the first Israeli Prime Minister to be born in Eretz Yisrael.

Today in Israeli History|March 1, 1922
Mossad’s Meir Amit Born

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March 17, 1921 Meir Amit, a career soldier who builds the Mossad into an internationally renowned intelligence agency, is born Meir Slutzky on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias. He attends agricultural…

Today in Israeli History|March 17, 1921
Riots Break Out in Jerusalem’s Old City During Muslim Festival

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A Muslim pilgrimage festival erupts into violence against Jews in Jerusalem, leaving nine dead and hundreds wounded.

Today in Israeli History|April 4, 1920
Arab Raiders Attack Tel Hai

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March 1, 1920 A Shi’ite Arab militia, accompanied by local Bedouins, attacks the Jewish agricultural settlement of Tel Hai, which has served as a border outpost in the Upper Galilee between British-controlled Palestine and French-controlled…

Today in Israeli History|March 1, 1920
General, Archaeologist Yigael Yadin Is Born

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March 20, 1917 Yigael Yadin, a general known for his archaeological work, is born in Jerusalem. His father is an archaeologist, and his mother is a women’s rights activist. Yadin joins the Haganah when he…

Today in Israeli History|March 20, 1917
Air Force Founder Yisrael Amir Is Born

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November 11, 1902 Yisrael Amir, the first commander in chief of the Israeli Air Force, is born in Vilna in the Russian Empire as Yisrael Zabludovsky. He makes aliyah in 1923 and that year joins…

Today in Israeli History|November 11, 1902
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