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Chaim Weizmann Sworn in as President (1949)
02/17/2027
Chaim Azriel Weizmann z"l (November 27, 1874-November 9, 1952) was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel.
Sir Moses Montefiore and Lady Judith Montefiore began their first trip to Palestine (1827)
02/20/2027
Moses Montefiore traveled to Palestine seven times when the journeys were difficult and dangerous.
Struma Anniversary (1942)
02/24/2027
Death of Tziporah Zaid (1968)
02/24/2027
Tziporah Becker z"l was one of the founders of Hashomer, a Jewish defense organization to safeguard the Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine.
Ariel Sharon's birthday (1928)
02/26/2027
Ariel Sharon z"l (February 26, 1928 - January 11, 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006.
International Women's Day
03/08/2027
Birthday of Steven Wise
03/17/2027
Egypt and Israel peace agreement (after the visit of sadat and camp david) (1979)
03/26/2027
This treaty was signed after long negotiations in 1979, after the visit of Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat to Jerusalem in 1977, invited by the Israeli Prime Minister Begin, and the signing of the Camp David Peace Accords in 1978.
First Maccabiah Games (1932)
03/28/2027
The Maccabiah is the “Jewish Olympics,” a quadrennial event held in Israel with the participation of Jewish athletes from around the world.
Hebrew University Founded (1925)
04/01/2027
Hebrew University’s campus on Mount Scopus of Jerusalem was opened at a gala ceremony attended by leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures. Hebrew University has become one of the top 100 universities in the world.
Lottery for building plots in Tel Aviv (1909)
04/11/2027
On 11 April 1909, 66 Jewish families gathered on one of the sand dunes to parcel out the land by lottery using seashells.
The Founding of Tel Aviv (1909)
04/11/2027
Tel Aviv was founded on April 11, 1909. On that day, lot of families arrived by the second aliyah to the place from the the sands of Yaffo.
Execution of Dov Gruner (1947)
04/19/2027
Dov Bela Gruner was executed by the British and Egyptian authorities.
San Remo's mandate: Israel's 'Magna carta' (1920)
04/25/2027
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)
05/02/2027
Sabena rescue (1972)
05/08/2027
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)
05/15/2027
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)
05/15/2027 - 03/10/2028
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)
05/18/2027
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)
05/25/2027
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)
05/31/2027
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)
06/01/2027
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
06/05/2027 - 06/11/2027
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)
06/05/2027 - 06/10/2022
Magen David Adom was founded (1915)
06/06/2027
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)
06/09/2027
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)
06/13/2027
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)
06/20/2027
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)
07/04/2027
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)
07/10/2027
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)
07/11/2027 - 07/18/2027
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)
07/24/2027
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)
08/31/2027
In Basil Switzerland, Theodor Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress which established the World Zionist Organization.
Munich Massacre (1972)
09/05/2027
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
09/28/2027
Rachel Bluwstein's birthday (1890)
09/29/2027
Yom Kippur War
10/06/2027 - 10/25/2023
Indigenous Peoples Day
10/08/2027