⌂ Calendar → January → 9 → Tenth of Tevet

January 9 Events
← January 8	January 10 →

Tenth of Tevet

Name: Tenth of Tevet
Start: 2025-01-09T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-09
Location: Israel

Tenth of Tevet is held on January 9. Date for 2025. This event in the first decade of the month January is annual.

Help us

עשרה בטבת - Asara b'Tevet.

Tevet - marks the day on which the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem began in the year 588 BCE, an event which eventually led to the destruction on the Temple in 586 BCE and the first exile from Israel. In Israel, the Tenth of Tevet has also come to be marked as a memorial day for the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

Pathet Lao Day in Laos on January 6;

Martyrs' Day in Panama on January 9 (is a Panamanian day of national mourning which commemorates the January 9, 1964 anti-American riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone);

Memorial Day in Turkmenistan on January 12 (Day of mourning in honor of the Turkmen killed on January 12, 1881 at the hands of Russian invaders at the Battle of Geok-Tepe, near Ashgabat);