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Oct. 31, 1917 — The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade surprises the Turkish defenders and captures Beersheba in one day, breaking the Ottoman defensive line near Gaza and obtaining needed water for advancing British troops.
TODAY IN ISRAELI HISTORY laration, a letter to Zionist leader Lord Rothschild. Nov. 3, 1878 — Religious Jews leave Jerusalem and establish the agricultural settlement of Petah Tikvah (“Gateway of Hope”), now Israel’s fifth-largest city, on 3,400 dunams (roughly 756 acres) bought near the Yarkon River and the Arab village of Mulabbis.
Nov. 8, 1923 — Yisrael Meir Friedman Ben-Shalom, the future Pashkaner Rebbe, is born to a Hasidic and Zionist family in Bohush, Romania. He and his wife, Zipporah, smuggle themselves into Palestine in 1946 and soon found a kibbutz.
Nov. 4, 1995 — Yigal Amir, a law student opposed to the Oslo peace process, fatally shoots Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Rabin had played a prominent role in most of Israel’s history.
Nov. 9, 1952 — Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, dies at his Rehovot home after a yearlong illness. A native of Poland, he moved to England in 1904. He developed political friendships that contributed to the Balfour Declaration.
Nov. 5, 1990 — Rabbi Meir Kahane, 58, is fatally shot by Egyptian-American El Sayyid Nosair in a New York hotel where Kahane is speaking. Kahane was elected to the Knesset in 1984 as the head of Kach, which later was banned for inciting racism.
Nov. 10, 1975 — The U.N. General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, defining Zionism as racism, on a vote of 72-35 with 32 abstentions. The resolution is revoked in December 1991 in connection with October’s Madrid peace conference.
Nov. 1, 1945 — The Jewish Resistance Movement sets off explosions at over 150 sites along the railway of Mandatory Palestine and blows up three British gunboats in synchronized attacks known as the Night of the Trains.
Nov. 6, 1987 — Zohar Argov, who as one of Israel’s first Mizrahi music stars is known as the “The King” but is haunted by addictions to cocaine and heroin, hangs himself in jail at age 32 after being accused of attempted rape.
Nov. 2, 1917 — British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour reveals his government’s endorsement of “the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national home” in the Balfour Dec-
Nov. 7, 1944 — Hannah Senesh (formerly Szenes), a poet and Haganah paratrooper, is killed by a Hungarian firing squad in Budapest five months after being captured while
Nov. 11, 1902 — Yisrael Amir is born in Vilna in the Russian Empire. He makes aliyah in 1923 and rises through the Haganah. Despite no aviation experience, David BenGurion names him the first Israeli Air Force commander in May 1948.
Photo by Fritz Cohen, Israeli National Photo Collection
Moshe Sneh, shown as a member of the Knesset in 1961, was one of four leaders of the Jewish Resistance Movement when he was with the Haganah in 1945.
dominant political party, Mapai, in 1965 and is involved in the merger that produces the Labor Party in 1968.
trying to cross the border from Yugoslavia.
Nov. 12, 2009 — Former Knesset member Eliyahu Speiser dies at age 79. A native of Haifa, Speiser begins working for Israel’s
Knesset photo Eliyahu Speiser studied at the University of Paris and served on the embassy staff there before his political career.
Nov. 13, 1893 — Acclaimed Israeli painter Reuven Rubin is born in Galatz, Romania. He sells his bicycle in 1912 to afford to travel to Jerusalem and enroll in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. He
also studies in Paris. Nov. 14, 1956 — Six days after Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces that Israeli troops will withdraw from the Sinai, the Knesset debates the plan amid calls to keep the army in place until Egypt enters peace talks.
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