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Today in Israeli History: Haim Herman Cohn, who serves on Israel’s Supreme Court for 21 years, is born in Germany. He combines Jewish, Ottoman, Roman and British traditions to create Israel’s legal system in 1948.
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Turkish-Israeli relations have swung from strategic partnership to sharp rivalry since 1949. Military cooperation, diplomatic crises and persistent trade reveal a complex relationship, including shared concerns about Iran.
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Today in Israeli History: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower meet for more than two hours at the White House while Nazis and Arabs protest outside.
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Today in Israeli History: The World Zionist Organization’s Arthur Ruppin purchases the estate of Sir John Gray Hill atop Mount Scopus for the future Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Today in Israeli History: Egypt launches a major offensive against Israeli positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, starting the War of Attrition, which lasts until August 1970.
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Today in Israeli History: Egyptian authorities release details about the arrest Feb. 22 of Israeli spy Wolfgang Lotz and his wife, Waldrud, in a plot to send letter bombs to foreign scientists in Egypt.
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Little more than a week before attacking Iran, President Trump convened the first meeting of his Board of Peace, announcing $17 billion in pledges for Gaza’s reconstruction and promoting it as the first step toward broader Middle East peace.
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Today in Israeli History: A PLO raid hits the beach in Tel Aviv and attacks the Savoy Hotel. Seven terrorists, three Israeli soldiers and eight civilians are killed.
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Today in Israeli History: William Blackstone, an American Methodist lay leader, submits a petition to President Benjamin Harrison that calls for creating “a home for these wandering millions of Israel” in Palestine.
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Iran and the Jewish people share a 2,500-year story of extremes. From Cyrus freeing the Jews to today’s regime funding Israel’s enemies, the relationship has swung between friendship and hatred based on who holds power in Tehran.
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Today in Israeli History: A Hamas bomber detonates a 45-pound bomb packed with nails outside Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Center on the eve of Purim, killing himself and 13 Israelis.
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Today in Israeli History: Opposing any permanent Jewish presence, the mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, rejects a British proposal to severely limit Jewish immigration while establishing a majority-Arab Palestine.
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Why did the U.S. & Israel strike Iran on Feb. 28? Join Ken Stein for our CIE+ webinar "Israel in Context: Israel, the U.S. and Iran" to explore this coordinated action and its impact on the U.S.-Israel alliance.
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Today in Israeli History: The Israel Medical Association launches a strike to protest the government’s refusal to give doctors a big pay raise. Before a settlement June 26, the labor action escalates to a hunger strike.
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Today in Israeli History: Yitzhak Rabin is born in Jerusalem. He leads the defense of the city in 1948, heads the IDF in the June 1967 war, twice serves as prime minister, and achieves the Oslo Accords and Jordan peace treaty.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers his address to the nation, announcing Operation Roaring Lion, Feb. 28, 2025. (credit: Israeli Government Press Office, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Today in Israeli History: Dorit Beinisch, who in 2006 becomes the ninth president of Israel’s Supreme Court and the first woman in the post, is born in Tel Aviv.
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In 1988, George Shultz said the status quo in Israeli-Arab relations was unacceptable and urged U.S. mediation. He backed Palestinian participation but rejected both statehood and annexation.
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Today in Israeli History: Ariel Sharon, Israel’s 11th prime minister, is born in K’far Malal. He serves in the army from the War of Independence through the Yom Kippur War, oversees the first war in Lebanon, and withdraws from Gaza.
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Today in Israeli History: In Armonk, New York, Egyptian National Security Adviser Hafez Ismail tells his U.S. counterpart, Henry Kissinger, that Egypt is willing to negotiate directly with Israel under U.S. mediation.
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Why did Hamas start this war? How was Israel caught off guard? And what are the consequences for Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East and the U.S.? A closer look at the causes, the surprises and the future.
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Today in Israeli History: Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv hold the first match in the city’s oldest soccer rivalry, a 3-0 home victory for Maccabi.
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The “Shul Runnings” bobsled team was withdrawn after a member faked an illness to let a Druze teammate race, concluding an Olympics in which Israel succeeded merely by competing.
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Today in Israeli History: Thinking it is an enemy ship, a Soviet submarine sinks the refugee transport SS Struma in the Black Sea. Only one of the 769 Jewish refugees survives.
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Today in Israeli History: The Israeli movie industry has its first Oscar nominee when “Sallah Shabati” is nominated for best foreign language film. It loses the Academy Award but wins a pair of Golden Globes.
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Today in Israeli History: The directors of the under-construction Technikum in Haifa decide that the language of instruction will be Hebrew, reversing a decision to teach in German, and change the name to the Technion.
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Today in Israeli History: Pope Pius IX protests the decision of Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany to grant partial emancipation to Jews in his domain.
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Billionaire Haim Saban founded Saban Entertainment, the company behind "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." Born in Egypt and raised in Israel, he is a major supporter of Israeli nonprofits and founded Brookings’ Saban Center.
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Today in Israeli History: President Dwight Eisenhower in a speech emphasizes the need for Israel to abide by U.N. resolutions calling for its withdrawal from all of Sinai and the Gaza Strip after the 1956 war.
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