1933 -- Iraqi Officer Organizes Arab Forces Against Jewish Community
Fauzi-al Kaukji, an army officer of Iraqi origin, arrived in Palestine and began his efforts to consolidate Arab forces against the Jewish Community. As a result of his plotting, thirty Jews were murdered on roads, in Jewish communities and in cities during the month of August 1933.

1952 –- I.D.F General Ithak Sadeh Dies at 62
Ithak Sadeh, an IDF general and the first commander of the Palmah, died at age 62. Born in Lublin, Poland, Sadeh immigrated to Israel in 1920. There, he founded and led the Trumpeldor Labor Battalion (Gedud ha-Avodah). When Arab riots broke out in 1936, Sadeh joined the Haganah. Sadeh was also one of the founders of the Palmach, and became its first commanding officer in 1941. In 1945, he was promoted to acting chief of the Haganah general staff, coordinating resistance against the British. During the War of Independence, he took part in several operations, including the battle for Jerusalem. He retired from military service at the end of the war. Sadeh exercised a profound influence on the training, tactics and strategy of the Israel Defense Forces and also wrote articles, short stories, plays and memoirs.

1952 -- U.S.S.R. Executed Dozens of Jewish Intellectuals
The U.S.S.R. executed dozens of prominent Jewish authors and intellectuals, causing outrage in Israel and the Jewish world. Josef Stalin had given order to shoot the Jewish intellectuals. These Jews were falsely accused of trying to separate Crimea from the Soviet Union and, with the complicity of the American secret service, to establish a bourgeois and Zionist Jewish republic.

1969 -- Tourist Sets Fire inside Al-Aqsa Mosque
A young Australian tourist, Michael Rohan, set a fire inside the Al-Aqsa mosque. As the fire blazed, causing serious damage to the Al-Aqsa mosque, stormy demonstrations broke out in the Arab sections of Jerusalem and in the territories. Police blocked all entrances to the Temple Mount and mobilized thousands of officers to deal with rioters. In the afternoon, a general curfew was declared in East Jerusalem. By the following day, it was discovered that a non-Jewish tourist from Australia was responsible for the blaze. On August 23, Dennis Michael Rohan was arrested for arson. Rohan was an Australian Protestant follower of an evangelical sect known as the Church of God. By his own admission, Rohan hoped to hasten the coming of the Messiah by burning down the al-Aqsa Mosque. He was hospitalized in a mental institution, found to be insane and was later deported from Israel.

1979 -- First Israelis Depart for Egypt
Israeli tourists departed for Egypt for the first time in Israel's history.

1986 -- First Quadruplets Born in Israel
The first quadruplets were born in the Sharon hospital in Petah Tikva.

1995 - Five Killed in Suicide Bombing in Jerusalem
Five people were killed and about 100 injured when a Palestinian suicide bomber triggered a powerful explosion on bus No. 26 outside the Rene Kassin High School in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem.