DB中的MYSQL希伯来日期

I am looking for a way to handle Hebrew dates for a client. Is it possible to take a Hebrew date and store it in a MYSQL database as a Date and not as a string so that it can be evaluated against?

Something like: 1) fetch row from DB 2) if today is the same as the DB Hebrew date, do something.

OR

1) Fetch all rows where Hebrew date equals today's Hebrew date.

Is that possible without relying on string comparison?