January

01/21/1882 BILU Movement is Founded

01/03/1901 KKL is founded

01/11/1917 General Allenby Enters Palestine — Beginning of British Mandate Rule 01/02/1927  Anniversary of the Death of Ahad Ha’am (z”l)

01/27/1945 Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

01/25/1949 First Knesset Elections

01/15/1970 Yarzheit of Lea Goldberg

01/16/2003 Ilan Ramon flew aboard STS-107 Columbia

February

02/14/1896 Publication of Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State)

02/22/1922 Yarzheit of Aaron David Gordon (z”l)

02/13/1945 Yarzheit of Henrietta Szold

02/15/1948 First Publication of Ma’ariv

02/11/1949 Closure of the Last Jewish Refugee Camp on Cypress

02/14/1949 The First Knesset’s first meeting

02/17/1949 Chaim Weizman is Sworn in as the First President of the State of Israel.

02/11/1986 Release of Natan Sharansky

02/22/2019 Beresheet, the first non-governmental mission to land on the Moon, first Israeli mission to land on the Moon, the first ride-share mission to land on the Moon

March

03/05/1890 The city of Rehovot was Founded (as a moshava)

03/01/1906      The Bezalel Art School is Opened in Jerusalem

03/23/1915       Establishment of NILI

03/01/1920       Yarzheit of Joseph Trumpeldor (z”l)

03/28/1932       First Maccabiah Games

03/10/1949       War of Independence Ends when Israel reached Umm Rashrash (Eilat) and  took it without a battle

03/26/1979       Peace Agreement Between Egypt and Israel

April

04/01/1890 “Zionism” Term is Coined by  Nathan Birnbaum,  in his journal Selbstemanzipation! (Self-Emancipation)

04/11/1909 The City of Tel Aviv Founded

04/16/1931 Yarzheit of Rachel the Poet (Rachel Bluwstein)

04/01/1925 Inauguration of Hebrew University on Mount Scopus

04/11/1961 Trial of Nazi Leader Adolph Eichmann

04/25/1976 Hadassah returned to Mt. Scopus, once again opening its doors to all.

04/25/1982 Sinai Peninsula Returned to Egypt

May

05/23/1939 The British White Paper, called for the establishment of a Jewish national home in an independent Palestinian state within 10 years, was approved by the British  House of Commons

05/14/1948 The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

05/30/1948 Israel Defense Force (IDF) is Established

05/11/1949 Israel is Officially Accepted into the United Nations

 05/19/1950 Operation Ezra and Nehemiah

05/18/1965 Execution of Eli Cohen (z”l)

05/24/1991 Operation Solomon, the thirdAliyahmission from Ethiopia to Israel

June

06/19/1919 Haaretz Founded

06/15/1920 Establishment of the Haganah

06/07/1945 Opening of Zim Lines

06/16/1946 Operation "Markolet": Night of Bridges

06/20/1948 The Altelena Sinking

06/05/1967 Six-Day War Begins

06/06/1967 Yom Yerushalayim

06/07/1981 Operation Opera: Israel Air Force Destroys the Nuclear Reactor in Iraq

July

07/31/1882 Rishon L’Zion is Founded

07/03/1904 Yarzheit of Theodor Herzl (z”l)

07/22/1920 Keren HaYesod Founded

07/01/1922 British Mandate Established

07/28/1934 Yarzheit of Hayim Nachman Bialik (z”l)

07/05/1950 Law of Return Passed

07/26/1956 Egypt nationalize the Suez Canal

07/04/1976 Entebbe Hijacking

August

08/29/1897 First Zionist Congress

08/05/1927  Kibbutz Me’uhad, a union of kibbutzim in Israel, was Founded

08/17/1949 Herzl’s Remains Brought to Israel

08/07/1955 Bar-Ilan University Opens

08/07/1970 The War of Attrition Ends

08/22/1976 The Good Fence between Israel and Lebanon Opens

September

09/07/1906 David Ben Gurion (then Green) makes Alyiah

09/20/1944 Jewish Brigade Established

09/11/1946 11 Settlements were established in the Negev

09/05/1972 Munich Massacre at Summer Games

09/19/1988 Ofek 1 Launched

09/13/1993 Declaration of Principles Signed in Washington, D.C.

09/27/2000 The Second Intifada (known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada) started

09/28/2016 Yarzheit of Shimon Peres (z"l)

October

 10/28/1898 Herzl’s First and Only Visit in Palestine

10/30/1902 Publication of Altneuland (Old-New Land)

10/22/1905 Gymnasia Herzlia Established

10/08/1909 Yarzheit of Naftali Herz Imber (z"l)

10/28/1910 Degania Founded

10/23/1922 First Census in Palestine

10/10/1945 Palmach Raid on Atlit detention camp and releasing 210 maapilim

10/22/1973 The United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 called for a ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War

10/30/1991 First Peace Talks with Palestinians

10/26/1994 Peace Agreement Between Jordan and Israel

November

11/02/1917 Balfour Declaration

11/07/1947 Execution of Hannah Szenes

11/29/1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted

11/08/1948 First Census in Israel

11/08/1949 Operation Magic Carpet

11/09/1952 Yarzheit of Dr. Chaim Weizman (z”l)

11/11/1969 Ben-Gurion University Opens

11/19/1977 Anwar Sadat’s Historic Visit to Israel

 11/04/1995 Assassination and Yarzheit of Yitzhak Rabin (z”l)

December

12/12/1882 Rosh Pinna is founded as a moshava

12/16/1922 Yarzheit of Eliezer Ben Yehuda (z"l)

12/01/1931 The Jerusalem Post Founded

26/12/1936 The inauguration concert of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra     conducted by Arturo Toscanini

12/06/1953 David Ben Gurion’s First Resignation

12/15/1961 Adolph Eichmann Sentence

12/10/1966 Nobel Prize in Literature for Israeli/Jewish Writers Sachs Nelly and Agnon, Shmuel Yosef

12/08/1987 First Palestinian Intifada