Today in Israeli History – Page 4 – The American Israelite Newspaper

Today in Israeli History: May 17 – May 23

May 17, 1977 — Likud Wins First Election The right-leaning Likud coalition claims an upset

May 10, 2010 — Israel is Invited to Join OECD The 31-member Organization for Economic

May 3, 1882 — Russia Institutes May Laws Russian Czar Alexander III continues tightening restrictions

April 26, 1881 — Pogrom Hits Kyiv Anti-Jewish violence in the Russian Empire since the

April 19, 1956 — Writer Gadi Taub is Born Gadi Taub, a leading interpreter of

April 12, 1951 — Knesset Creates Yom HaShoah Rabbi Mordechai Nurock, a Holocaust survivor, proposed

April 5, 1999 — M-Systems Patents USB Flash Drive Kfar Saba-based M-Systems files a U.S.

March 29, 1967 — Sholem Aleichem’s Son-in-Law, Translator Dies Writer and translator Yitzhak Dov Berkowitz

March 22, 1988 — Gay Ban Is Abolished Pride is on display during the annual

March 15, 1972 — Hussein Proposes Federal Plan Jordan’s King Hussein proposes to end the