5700–6000 AM · 1940 CE — 2240 CE
The State of Israel and Our Days
59 events of Jewish history and world parallels.
5700 · 1940 CEThe Vaad Hatzala and the transplanting of the yeshiva world5700 · 1940 CEThe Rescue of the Mir Yeshiva: Vilna, Kobe, Shanghai5701 · 1941 CEThe Vichy dahirs in Morocco and the legend of Muhammad V5701 · 1941 CEThe End of the Yeshiva World of Eastern Europe5701 · 1941 CEThe Farhud5703 · 1943 CEThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising5705 · 1945 CEThe Founding of the United Nations5705 · 1945 CEHiroshima and the Atomic Age5706 · 1946 CERebuilding after the War: DP Camps and New Yeshivot5706 · 1946 CEThe pogrom in Tripolitania: the end of Jewish Libya5707 · 1947 CEThe independence of India and the partition with Pakistan5707 · 1947 CEThe Judean Desert scrolls come to light5707 · 1947 CEThe Cold War5708 · 1948 CEThe War of Independence5708 · 1948 CEThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights5708 · 1948 CEThe Yemenite children affair5708 · 1948 CEThe Exodus from Arab Lands: Magic Carpet, Ezra and Nehemiah5708 · 1948 CEThe Keter in the fire: the Aleppo pogrom5708 · 1948 CEThe Declaration of the State of Israel5708 · 1948 CEThe UN Partition Resolution5708 · 1948 CEThe ingathering of the far communities5708 · 1948 CEOujda and Jerada5709 · 1949 CEOn Wings of Eagles: the airlift of Yemenite Jewry5709 · 1949 CEPeople's China: Mao Zedong5710 · 1950 CEEzra and Nehemiah: the end of Iraqi Jewry5710 · 1950 CEThe Korean War5710 · 1950 CEChabad shlichus: emissaries from Brooklyn to the whole world5717 · 1957 CEThe decolonisation of Africa5717 · 1957 CEThe Sinai Campaign (Operation Kadesh)5718 · 1958 CESputnik and Gagarin's Flight5721 · 1961 CEThe Egoz and Operation Yachin: the departure of Moroccan Jewry5721 · 1961 CEThe Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem5724 · 1964 CEThe Soviet Jewry movement: from The Jews of Silence to the Washington mall5724 · 1964 CEAmerican Jewry in the civil rights struggle5727 · 1967 CEThe Six-Day War and the Liberation of Jerusalem5729 · 1969 CEThe Moon Landing5729 · 1969 CEThe Letter of the Eighteen: how the Soviet Jewry movement began5734 · 1974 CEThe Yom Kippur War5738 · 1978 CEDeng Xiaoping's reforms: China opens5739 · 1979 CEThe Islamic revolution in Iran5739 · 1979 CEThe execution of Ḥabib Elghanian and the exodus of Iranian Jewry5739 · 1979 CEThe Peace Treaty with Egypt5745 · 1985 CEOperation Moses: the Aliyah of Ethiopian Jewry5750 · 1990 CEThe Great Aliyah from the Soviet Union5750 · 1990 CEThe Fall of the Berlin Wall5751 · 1991 CEThe Gulf War and the Scud Missiles5751 · 1991 CEThe Internet and the World Wide Web5751 · 1991 CEThe Collapse of the Soviet Union5754 · 1994 CEThe End of Apartheid5761 · 2001 CEThe Second Intifada and the Gaza Disengagement5761 · 2001 CEThe Attacks of September 115761 · 2001 CEThe September 11 Attacks5767 · 2007 CEThe Smartphone and Social Media5779 · 2019 CETree of Life in Pittsburgh: the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history5780 · 2020 CEThe COVID-19 Pandemic5780 · 2020 CEThe Flourishing of Torah Study and Daf Yomi5782 · 2022 CEThe Age of Artificial Intelligence5784 · 2024 CESimchat Torah 5784: October 7 and the War6000 · 2240 CEThe Sixth Millennium and the Awaiting of Redemption