On January 31st, 1961, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigned, after the disclosure of a foiled espionage operation in Egypt that took place in 1954.
On January 30th, 1933, the same day Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg, Recha Freier established the Committee for the Assistance of Jewish Youth. The committee, which would eventually be renamed Youth Aliyah, would rescue over 11,000 mostly German-Jewish children during World War II and would become a key component of the Hadassah organization that dealt with saving Jewish youth from all pockets of the globe.
On January 27th, 2001, one of the last prominent negotiations between Israel and Palestinian officials concluded in what would be called the Taba Summit in Egypt. The talks took place just as President Bill Clinton transferred his duties to George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was facing a challenging election campaign from to-be PM Ariel Sharon.
On January 25th, 1919, a day before the modern International Holocaust Memorial Day that was created in 1945 when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated, Chaim Weizmann warned the British that unless Jews secure a place of their own they would be headed for a great disaster in the coming decades.
On January 24, 1964, the Syrian police run by the Ba’ath party raided the home of Damascus businessman Kamel Amin Tha’abet, also known as Eli Cohen, and arrested him on multiple charges of espionage.