“ON THIS DAY” - MAY 11
1960 - Adolf Eichmann Captured (kidnapped) in Argentina by the Mossad and brought to Israel for Trial (Capture not announced for 10 days) encyclopedia.ushmm.org/…
1949 - Israel admitted to the United Nations (Britain and DENMARK among those abstaining in the vote)
* In favor: USSR, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of South Africa.
* AGAINST Yemen, Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria.
* ABSTAINING: United Kingdom, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, El Salvador, Greece, Siam, Sweden, Turkey.
1933 - The day after the Nazi Book Burnings
youtube.com/watch?v=kHC…
NYT- NAZI BOOK-BURNING FAILS TO STIR BERLIN…nytimes.com/1933/05/11/…
1965 - Israel Museum Opens in Jerusalem
Levi Eshkol, Teddy Kollek, Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion among the attendees
jta.org/archive/israel-…
youtube.com/watch?v=-Xi…
2022 - Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh Journalist killed in Jenin by IDF npr.org/2022/05/11/1098…
2021 - IDF re Operation Guardian of The Walls
idf.il/en/mini-sites/wa…
1976: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Warns of Coming Confrontation with the United States jta.org/archive/rabin-w…
1945 - Zionist Flag Flying from Dachau Watchtower, 1,000 of 2,500 Jews There Hospitalized jta.org/archive/zionist…