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Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)

Attack on the Kfar Chabad agricultural school

1956·Kfar Chabad

Toll
6

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fedayins open fire during evening prayer in the school synagogue

Fedayeen opened fire in the synagogue of the agricultural school of Kfar Chabad, during the evening prayer. The village had been founded a few years earlier by Hassidic survivors from the Soviet Union, and the school welcomed teenagers.

The Rabbi of Lubavitch, in New York, asked that the village not be abandoned and that, on the contrary, it be built upon: the printing workshop opened in the months that followed was the response given to the attack. The place became a symbol of this refusal to leave.

Period :
Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Land of Israel
Country :
Israël
Sources

Archives de Kfar Chabad ; presse israélienne contemporaine.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Kfar Chabad.

In the same country68

  1. 1099Siege and capture of the city by the crusaders of Tancredtoute la communauté
  2. août 1929Riots of 19296
  3. 30 déc. 1947After a grenade attack at the entrance, Jewish workers at the refinery are attacked by the crowd39
  4. 13 mai 1948Fall of the Etzion Bloc~129
  5. 17 mars 1954Bus attack11
  6. 22 mai 1970Attack on the Avivim school bus12
  7. 30 mai 1972Attack — Lod Airport26 (dont 17 pèlerins chrétiens portoricains)
  8. 11 avril 1974Attack on Kiryat Shmona18

And 60 more in the catalogue.

Event 2286 of 2483, in chronological order · Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970): 80 events in the catalogue