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| 1896 | Herzl, Theodor |  |
| Publication of, "The Jewish State" |
| 1937 | Weizmann, Chaim Azriel | |
| Jerusalem Supports the partition of Palestine to form a Jewish State |
| 1948 | Weizmann, Chaim Azriel | |
| Appointed President of Israel |
| Appointed provisional President of Israel |
| 1949 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel, 2nd term |
| 25th Jan Elected Prime Minister, Israel's 1st national election |
| 15th May Jerusalem Israel abolishes restrictions on immigration |
| 1949 | Gurion, David Ben | |
| Appointed Prime Minister |
| 1949 | Weizmann, Chaim Azriel | |
| Appointed President of Israel |
| 1950 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| May Operation Ali Baba begins, brings 113,000 Iraqi Jews to Israel |
| Sep Operation Magic Carpet completed; 47,000 Yemeni Jews brought to Israel |
| 1951 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| 9th Oct Jerusalem Ends 8 months of ministerial crisis by forming a coalition government |
| 1952 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Gaza Israel invades Gaza |
| Sinai Israel invades Sinai |
| Gaza Nasser steps up the blockade of Israeli ports & suppoorts Arab rebels at Gaza |
| 1952 | Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak | |
| Appointed President of Israel |
| Jerusalem Ben-Zvi moves his offices from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem |
| 1953 | Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak | |
| 12th July Jerusalem The Israeli Foreign Ministry transfers its offices from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem |
| 1953 | Sharett, Moshe | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel |
| 1955 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel, 3rd term |
| 1955 | Sharett, M | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel |
| 1956 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| 22nd Oct Sevres Meets the French Prime Minister to discuss the invasion of Egypt to oust Nasser |
| 29th Oct Gaza Israel invades the Gaza Strip & the Sinai Peninsula & make rapid progress towards the Suez Canal Zone |
| 1957 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Gaza Under UN pressure Israel withdraws from Gaza |
| 1958 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Givat Ram The 10th anniversary of Israel's statehood is celebrated with a military parade |
| 1959 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Suez Canal Egypt renews the Israeli blockade through the Suez canal |
| 10th Oct Creation of Fatah |
| 1960 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Israeli agents capture Adolph Eichmann in Argentina |
| 1962 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Jerusalem Adolph Eichmann, Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, is hanged near Tel Aviv, Israel, for his role in the Nazi murder of over one million Jews |
| Jerusalem Eichmann is found guilty of crimes committed in the Holocaust & executed in Israel |
| Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant |
| 1963 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| 8th May JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression |
| 15th June Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns |
| 1967 | Begin, Menachem | |
| Appointed Minister without Portfolio |
| 1967 | Eshkol, Levi | |
| 15th May Titanraits Closure of the Tiran Straits |
| 1967 | Kollek, Teddy | |
| 12th Nov Jerusalem Appointed Mayor of Jerusalem |
| 12th Nov Jerusalem Kollek is appointed Mayor of Jerusalem |
| 1968 | Eshkol, Levi | |
| Mar The PLO fedayeen repels an Israeli attack on the PLO's Jordanian bases |
| 4th April Hebron Establishment of the Jewish settlemet in Hebron |
| 18th July Hijacking of an El Al Airliner by the PLO |
| 1971 | Meir, Golda | |
| Nixon massively increases USAaid for Israel, $634m in 1971, $93m in 1970 in line with the Nixon doctrine proclaimed in July 1969, providing military & economic assistance to local powers to maintain the "regional order" |
| 4th Feb Sadat offers a full peace 'agreement' including security guarantees if Israel returns to 1967 borders |
| 28th Nov 'Black September', which Israel claims is a Fatah front under Ali Hasan Salameh & Salah Khalaf |
| 1973 | Alon, Yosef | |
| 1st July Jerusalem The Israeli military attache is shot in Washington |
| 1975 | Peres, Shimon | |
| Aug Sinai Kissinger, Rabin & Peres agree the withdrawal of Israel from Sinai |
| 1975 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| Aug Sinai Kissinger, Rabin & Peres agree the withdrawal of Israel from Sinai |
| 1977 | Begin, Menachem | |
| 21st June Appointed Prime Minister of Israel |
| 1978 | Begin, Menachem | |
| Sinai Agrres to withdraw from Sinai under the Camp David agreement |
| The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is created to confirm Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon |
| 19th Mar The Israeli army takes control of almost all of Lebanon south of Litani River |
| 19th Mar The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 425 demanding that Israel withdraw from Lebanon |
| 23rd Mar Naqoura The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is created to enforce this mandate, and restore peace and sovereignty to Lebanon |
| 23rd Mar Naqoura UNIFIL forces arrive in Lebanon setting up headquarters in Naqoura |
| 13th June The Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon |
| 5th Sep Camp David USAPresident Carter, Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt meet at Camp David |
| 17th Sep Camp David Agrees to withdraw from Sinai & for elections in the West Bank & Gaza Strip |
| 17th Sep Camp David Israel promises to withdraw gradually from Sinai and to establish some form of autonomous Palestinian territory on the West Bank |
| 17th Sep Camp David USAPresident Carter, Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt sign agreements at Camp David |
| 28th Sep Camp David The Israeli Knesset endorses the Camp David accord. |
| 22nd Oct Washington Negotiators for Egypt and Israel announce in Washington they had reached tentative agreement on the main points of a peace treaty |
| 27th Oct Camp David Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord |
| 27th Oct Jerusalem Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord. |
| 1978 | Meir, Golda | |
| 8th Dec Jerusalem Death of Golda Meir (80), PM of Israel from 1969 to 1974, dies of cancer in Jerusalem |
| 1979 | Begin, Menachem | |
| Nahariya Samir Kantar kills three Israelis in the northern city of Nahariya |
| 22nd Mar The Israeli parliament approves a peace treaty with Egypt |
| 26th Mar Jerusalem Signs a Peace Treaty with Egypt in Washington |
| 26th Mar The Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House |
| 27th Mar The Egyptian Parliament unanimously approves a peace treaty with Israel |
| 31st Mar The Arab League suspends Egypt following its treaty with Israel |
| 2nd April Cairo Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo, Egypt, and meets with President Sadat |
| 25th May Sinai Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt |
| 21st Oct Moshe Dayan, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, submits his resignation |
| 22nd Oct Negotiators for Egypt and Israel announce in Washington they had reached tentative agreement on the main points of a peace treaty |
| 27th Oct Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin are named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord |
| 25th Nov Alma Israel returns the Alma oil field in A-Tour to Egypt |
| 1979 | Dayan, Moshe | |
| 21st Oct Moshe Dayan, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, submits his resignation |
| 1979 | Kantar, Samir | |
| Nahariya Samir Kantar kills three Israelis in the northern city of Nahariya |
| 1980 | Begin, Menachem | |
| 26th Jan Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations, in accord with PM Begin's agreement with President Sadat on Jan 10 at Aswan |
| 26th Feb Egypt and Israel exchange Ambassadors for the 1st time |
| 30th July Jerusalem The Israeli Knesset passes a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state |
| 20th Aug Jerusalem The UN Security Council condemns (14-0, USAabstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is it's capital |
| 1980 | Shamir, Yitzhak | |
| Appointedinister under Menachem Begin |
| 1981 | Begin, Menachem | |
| Prince Fahd of SaudiArabia proposes an 8-point peace plan to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is adopted by the Arab League after some controversy |
| 1st April Jerusalem Fighting breaks out between Lebanese christian militia & Syrian peacekeeping troops |
| 29th April Jerusalem Syria installs Russian made surface-to-air missiles in Lebanon |
| 8th June Jerusalem Israeli planes bomb a nuclear power plant near Iraq, the act is condemned by the UN |
| 24th June Osirak Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroy a nuclear power plant in Iraq at Osirak, Iraq, before it goes into operation, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons |
| 24th June Israel & the PLO endorse ceasefire agreements |
| 30th June Elections for the tenth Knesset are held in Israel, despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres ' Alignment, Menachem Begin's Likud win by just one seat, voter turnout is 77.8%. |
| 17th July Beirut Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut |
| 14th Dec Golan Heights Israel annexes the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967, Parliament approves the annexation of the Golan Heights with legislation in one day |
| 1981 | Dayan, Moshe | |
| 16th Oct Death of Moshe Dayan |
| 1981 | Sharon, Ariel | |
| Ariel Sharon is appointed Defense Minister in the Begin government |
| 1982 | Argov, Shlomo | |
| 3rd June Israel's ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, is shot and wounded outside a London hotel, Israel's invasion of Lebanon follows the assassination attempt, the attack is blamed on Abu Nidal's Palestinian Fatah group |
| 1982 | Begin, Menachem | |
| Hezbollah is formed with Iranian help as a radical offshoot of Amal, a Shiite Muslim movement. |
| 21st April Jerusalem Strikes the PLO in Lebanon as retaliation for PLO guerrilla activities within Israel |
| 25th April Sinai In accordance with Camp David agreements, Israel completes the Sinai withdrawal |
| 9th May Jerusalem Israeli jets raid PLO bases south of Beirut |
| 3rd June Israel's ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, is shot and wounded outside a London hotel, Israel's invasion of Lebanon follows the assassination attempt, the attack is blamed on Abu Nidal's Palestinian Fatah group |
| 4th June Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon one day after the attempted assassination of the Israeli Ambassador in London |
| 4th June Israel's ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, is shot and wounded outside a London hotel, Israel's invasion of Lebanon follows the assassination attempt, the attack is blamed on Abu Nidal's Palestinian Fatah group |
| 4th June The invasion leads to the unconditional recognition of the State of Israel |
| 6th June A 70-day siege by 30,000 Israeli troops leaves up to 14,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians dead |
| 6th June Islamic radicals, including Naim Qassem, form Hezbollah (Hizbullah, i.e. Party of God) in response to Israels' invasion of Lebanon |
| 6th June Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon orders his forces to invade southern Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country |
| 9th June Bekaa Valley Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley |
| 27th July Jerusalem Israeli jets attack civilian areas in West Beirut killing 120 |
| 12th Aug Beirut Israel stages heavy bombardments of Beirut, the UN Security council expresses its most serious concern about continued military activities in Lebanon, particularly in and around Beirut |
| 15th Sep Beirut The Israeli army occupies Beirut |
| 15th Sep Misgav The Jewish town of Misgav was built on land seized from the Palestinians over 3 decades, its 7,000 Jewish residents have jurisdiction over 183,000 dunams (a quarter-acre), while the area's 200,000 Arabs reside on 200,000 dunams |
| 16th Sep Beirut Occupies West Beirut |
| 16th Sep Palestinians are massacred by "Christian Falangists" |
| 16th Sep Jerusalem The bloodshed brings calls for Begin's resignation |
| 1982 | Eitan, Rafael | |
| 6th June Israeli General Rafael Eitan convinces Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to invade southern Lebanon to clean out the PLO bases there |
| 1982 | Sharon, Ariel | |
| 25th April Sinai Ariel Sharon, as defense minister, directs the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the Sinai Peninsula |
| 6th June A 70-day siege by 30,000 Israeli troops leaves up to 14,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians dead |
| 6th June Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon orders his forces to invade southern Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country |
| 9th June Bekaa Valley Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley |
| 12th Aug Beirut Israel stages heavy bombardments of Beirut, the UN Security council expresses its most serious concern about continued military activities in Lebanon, particularly in and around Beirut |
| 15th Sep The Israeli army occupies Beirut |
| 1983 | Begin, Menachem | |
| 6th May Israel accepts the USAproposal for mutual withdrawal from Lebanon of Israel & Syria |
| 17th May Israel & Lebanon sign an agreement for Israeli withdrawal within 3 months |
| 28th Aug Israel's PM Begin announced his intention to resign as fighting continued in Lebanon with no apparent end in sight |
| 2nd Sep Yitzhak Shamir, the Foreign Minister of Israel, is elected to succeed PM Menachem Begin as leader of the governing Herut Party |
| 1990 | Shamir, Yitzhak | |
| 12th June Forms a new right-wing government |
| 1992 | Shamir, Yitzhak | |
| The Israeli military discloses in 2003 that it had planned a daring assassination attempt against Saddam Hussein in 1992, the plot would have involved landing commandos in Iraq and firing sophisticated missiles at him during a funeral |
| 20th Jan Jerusalem The government collapses after the right resigns over plans for Palestinian self-rule |
| 1996 | Netanyahu, Binyamin | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel, despite poor poll ratings |
| 1999 | Arens, Moshe | |
| 26th Jan Appointed Minister of Defense |
| 1999 | Barak, Ehud | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel |
| 17th May Israel elects Labor party leader and Former General Ehud Barak as Prime Minister in a landslide, Barak promises rapid progress toward peace |
| 1999 | Netanyahu, Binyamin | |
| 15th May Resigns as Prime Minister of Israel |
| 2000 | Barak, Ehud | |
| Mar Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations fail when Hafez Assad rejects an Israeli offer relayed by USAPresident Clinton in Geneva |
| 28th Sep Temple Mount Palestinians initiate riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, which is also the location of the Haram as Sharif holy to Muslims |
| 2000 | Sharon, Ariel | |
| 28th Sep Temple Mount Palestinians initiate riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, which is also the location of the Haram as Sharif holy to Muslims |
| 2001 | Barak, Ehud | |
| 6th Feb Right-wing Likud leader Ariel Sharon elected Prime Minister in Israel replacing Ehud Barak and promising "peace and security." |
