1907 -- JNF Approves Loan for Ahuzat Bayit
The Jewish National Fund, with the encouragement of Dr. Ruppin, approved a loan to build Ahuzat Bayit. Ahuzat Bayit began as the idea of Akiva Aryeh Weiss, a watchmaker from Lodz, Poland. Weiss wanted to establish a modern Jewish neighborhood outside Jaffa. Several dozen Jaffa residents supported this idea, and deposited sums in a bank as a down payment for property in the new neighborhood. Weiss had the vision in 1904, and just a few years later, received a loan from the JNF. Ahuzat Bayit merged with two other new neighborhoods, Nahalat Binyamin and Geula, and they were together named "Tel Aviv," the title of Nahum Sokolow's Hebrew translation of Herzl's utopian novel, Altneuland.

1923 -- First Farmers' Federation of Palestine Conference Held in Petah Tikvah

1934 -- Thousands Attend Bialik's Funeral
Tens of thousands of mourners attended the funeral of Hayim Nahman Bialik, the poet who died in Vienna just a few days earlier while undergoing surgery. The Jewish world and the Yishuv deeply mourned this loss.

1975 -- Muslim Nations Call for Expulsion of Israel from UN
A conference of foreign ministers of Muslim states called for the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations.

1985 -- Chief Rabbinate Demands Conversion of Ethiopian Immigrants
The Chief Rabbinate's demand that immigrants from Ethiopia convert to Judaism caused a furor. While immigration from the former Soviet Union was scant at the beginning of the 1980s, by mid-decade, a large group of Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia arrived in Israel (Operation Moshe). By the end of the decade, changes taking place in the Soviet Union affected immigration to Israel, heralding the wave of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who would reach Israel by the early 1990's.