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Judah Magnes Outlines Hebrew University Expansion

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Opening the 1933-34 academic year, Judah Magnes, the president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, outlines an expansion plan for the university.

Today in Israeli History|November 5, 1933
YMCA Opens New Building in Jerusalem

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The Jerusalem YMCA, still operational today, is opened by General Edmund Allenby in front of an overflow crowd.

Today in Israeli History|April 18, 1933
Palestine Post Prints First Edition

Palestine Post Prints First Edition CIE+ CIE+ members only

December 1, 1932 The Palestine Post, the precursor of The Jerusalem Post, prints and distributes 1,200 copies of its first, eight-page edition. Founded by Gershon Agron, a Ukrainian-born immigrant from the United States, The Palestine…

Today in Israeli History|December 1, 1932
First Maccabiah Games Open in Tel Aviv

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The first Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish Olympics, open in Tel Aviv.

Today in Israeli History|March 28, 1932
Actress Haya Harareet Is Born

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September 20, 1931 Actress Haya Harareet, best known as Judah Ben-Hur’s love interest Esther in the 1959 remake of “Ben-Hur,” is born Haya Neuberg in Haifa to Polish immigrants who arrived in Mandatory Palestine when…

Today in Israeli History|September 20, 1931
Fourth Palestine Exhibition Opens in Tel Aviv

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The 1929 Palestine and Near East Exhibition was the last of four smaller exhibitions which would eventually become (in 1932) the Levant Fair or Orient Fair (Yerid Hamizrach).

Today in Israeli History|April 8, 1929
Meretz Founder Shulamit Aloni Is Born

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November 29, 1928 Shulamit Aloni, the lawyer and politician who founds the Meretz party, is born in Tel Aviv. From a young age, Aloni is involved with politics and is relentless in working to bring…

Today in Israeli History|November 29, 1928
Writer Netiva Ben Yehuda Is Born

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July 26, 1928 Netiva Ben Yehuda, a Palmach member, early Israeli feminist, acclaimed writer and media personality, is born in Tel Aviv to a father from Lithuania and a mother from Ukraine. She has two…

Today in Israeli History|July 26, 1928
First Tel Aviv Soccer Derby

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Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv hold their first soccer derby, a 3-0 Maccabi win.

Today in Israeli History|February 25, 1928
Playwright Nissim Aloni Is Born

Playwright Nissim Aloni Is Born

August 24, 1926 Playwright and translator Nissim Aloni is born Nissim Levi to poor Bulgarian Jewish parents in Florentin, a low-income neighborhood in the south of Tel Aviv that becomes an inspiration for his work….

Today in Israeli History|August 24, 1926
Hebrew University Opens

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The Hebrew University officially opens in Jerusalem on Mount Scopus with Zionist and British leaders joined by representatives from universities across the world.

Today in Israeli History|April 1, 1925
Educator, Politician Rabbi Yehuda Amital Is Born

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Yehuda Amital, the founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion, is born as Yehuda Klein in Oradea, Romania, where he receives a religious education.

Today in Israeli History|October 31, 1924
Israeli Film Pioneer Lia Van Leer Is Born

Israeli Film Pioneer Lia Van Leer Is Born

A pioneer in Israeli film, Lia Van Leer is born Lia Greenberg in Beltsy, Romania (today Moldova).

Today in Israeli History|August 8, 1924
Hapoel Haifa Soccer Club Founded

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April 24, 1924 Hapoel Haifa is established during Passover in a meeting led by Yehoshua Sherpstein and Yair Aharony at a house in Haifa’s Hadar neighborhood. The organization creates several branches related to sports and…

Today in Israeli History|April 24, 1924
Actress Hanna Maron Is Born

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November 22, 1923 Hannele Meierzak, who as Hanna Maron becomes known as “the first lady of Israeli theater,” is born in Berlin. As a child, she appears in many plays and films, including an uncredited…

Today in Israeli History|November 22, 1923
Hasidic Zionist Rabbi Friedman Ben-Shalom Is Born

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November 8, 1923 Rabbi Yisrael Meir Friedman Ben-Shalom, a sixth-generation descendant of Rebbe Yisrael of Rizin, is born in Bohush, Romania, to a Hasidic and Zionist family. Friedman Ben-Shalom joins Hashomer Hatzair, the secular Zionist…

Today in Israeli History|November 8, 1923
Gush Shalom Founder Uri Avnery Is Born

Gush Shalom Founder Uri Avnery Is Born CIE+ CIE+ members only

September 10, 1923 Journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery is born Helmut Ostermann in Beckum, Germany. After Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power in 1933, Uri’s father, an upper-class Zionist, moves the family to Haifa, then…

Today in Israeli History|September 10, 1923
Opera Launched in Palestine

Opera Launched in Palestine CIE+ CIE+ members only

July 28, 1923 Mordechai Golinkin’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “La Traviata” marks the beginning of opera in Mandatory Palestine. Because Palestine has no opera house, the performance is in a movie theater. Golinkin, who wrote…

Today in Israeli History|July 28, 1923
Supreme Court Justice Shoshana Netanyahu Is Born

Supreme Court Justice Shoshana Netanyahu Is Born CIE+ CIE+ members only

Retired Israeli Supreme Court Justice Shoshana Netanyahu, the second woman to serve on Israel’s highest court, is born in the free city of Danzig (Gdnask, Poland).

Today in Israeli History|April 6, 1923
Writer Yosef Haim Brenner Is Killed

Writer Yosef Haim Brenner Is Killed

Yosef Haim Brenner, a pioneer of Modern Hebrew Literature, is murdered by an Arab gang during the 1921 Jaffa Riots.

Today in Israeli History|May 2, 1921
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
Yishuv Publishes Its First Medical Journal: Harefuah

Yishuv Publishes Its First Medical Journal: Harefuah

The first Hebrew language medical journal in Palestine, “HaRufuah,” is published quarterly by the Jewish Medical Association of Palestine. The journal is still published monthly by the Israel Medical Association and distributed to all its members free of charge.

Today in Israeli History|August 20, 1920
Swimmer Judith Deutsch Is Born

Swimmer Judith Deutsch Is Born CIE+ CIE+ members only

September 18, 1918 Champion swimmer Judith Deutsch is born in Vienna, Austria. Most Austrian athletic clubs ban her because she is Jewish, so she begins swimming with a Jewish club, Hakoah Vienna. Between 1933 and…

Today in Israeli History|September 18, 1918
Composer Leonard Bernstein Is Born

Composer Leonard Bernstein Is Born

Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish parents, Leonard Bernstein is one of the most prolific composers and conductors in American history.

Today in Israeli History|August 25, 1918
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