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| 1922 | Rabin, Yitzhak |  |
| 4th Nov Jerusalem Birth of Yitzhak Rabin |
| 1930 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| Jerusalem Appointed Party Leader of the Mapai Labour Party |
| 1959 | Peres, Shimon | |
| First elected to the Knesset |
| 1968 | Meir, Golda | |
| Jerusalem Golda Meir founds the Labour Party |
| 1973 | Ben-Gurion, David | |
| 1st Dec Tel Aviv Death of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister |
| 1974 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| Maalot The Palestinian Democratic Front takes over an Israeli school in Maalot and 20 schoolchildren were killed. |
| The UN recognizes the right of Palestinians to sovereignty and national independence |
| 10th April Appointed Prime Minister of Israel |
| 10th April Golda Meir announces her resignation as Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin replaces Golda Meir |
| 15th May Maalot PFLP terrorists take a school in Maalot, Israel, 26 people are killed including 21 children after an unsuccessful rescue attempt |
| 31st May Golan Heights Israel and Syria sign an agreement on the Golan Heights |
| 3rd June Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government |
| 1975 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| Suez Canal The Suez Canal is reopened |
| 1977 | Peres, Shimon | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party |
| 1984 | Peres, Shimon | |
| 23rd July The Labour Alignment Party wins 44 seats in the Knesset |
| 23rd July The Parliamentary elections end with Peres 's Labour Party winning 44 seats |
| 14th Sep Appointed Prime Minister of Israel for 25 months followed by 25 months for Shamir |
| 14th Sep The Knesset votes for a coalition Government |
| 1984 | Shamir, Yitzhak | |
| Appointed Miinister, serves under Simon Peres |
| 23rd July Shamir's Likud Party wins 44 seats, no party has a majority |
| 1985 | Peres, Shimon | |
| 3rd April The USAcharges Israel with violating the Geneva Convention for deporting Shiites |
| 20th May Israel frees 1,500 Palestinians for 3 Israeli soldiers |
| 22nd May Beirut A car bomb kills 50 & wounds 172 |
| 1st July Israel decides to release 300 of its 735 Shiite prisoners |
| 1989 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| 19th Jan Israel's Minister of Defense Rabin proposes that Palestinians end the Intifadah in exchange for an opportunity to elect local leaders who would negotiate with the Israeli government |
| 1992 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Israel, 2nd term |
| 1993 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| 19th Jan Israel recognizes the PLO as no longer criminal |
| 28th Jan The Israeli Supreme Court unanimously upholds the deportations of 400 Palestinians from the occupied territories to Lebanon |
| 1st Feb Yitzhak Rabin announces that his country would repatriate about 100 Palestinians deported to Lebanon, an offer rejected by the deportees |
| 15th Mar Golan Heights Yitzhak Rabin meets at the White House with President Clinton, after which Rabin offers to negotiate the return of part of the Golan Heights to Syria |
| 30th Mar Israeli authorities bar West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel after two traffic police officers were shot to death |
| 16th April In Israel 20 soldiers and civilians are injured in Hamas 's first suicide attack against Israelis |
| 27th April Washington After a hiatus of more than four months, Israeli and Arab delegates resume Middle East peace talks in Washington |
| 4th May Oslo Provides for elections in Palestinian controlled areas |
| 4th May Oslo The Israeli government recognizes the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people while the PLO recognizes the right of the state of Israel to exist and renounces terrorism |
| 4th May Oslo Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin sign the Oslo Accords |
| 25th July Israel launches its heaviest artillery and air assault on Lebanon since 1982 in an attempt to eradicate Hezbollah and Palestinian guerrilla threats |
| 27th July Israeli guns and aircraft pound southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas |
| 31st July The fighting ended July 31 with a US-brokered cease-fire, Israel and Hezbollah the agree not to attack civilian targets, but the cease-fire is short lived |
| 20th Aug Witnessed by Warren Chris topher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of USAPresident Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with the PLO's Chairman Yasser Arafat |
| 29th Aug Negotiations continue between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with Israel reported on the verge of recognizing the PLO |
| 30th Aug Israel's Cabinet approves a framework for Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories |
| 9th Sep PLO leaders and Israel agree to recognize each other, clearing the way for a peace accord |
| 13th Sep Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy, Arafat has control of most of the Gaza Strip and 27% of the West Bank |
| 14th Sep Israel and Jordan sign a framework for negotiations, a day after the signing of a PLO-Israeli peace accord |
| 23rd Sep The Israeli parliament ratifies the Israel-PLO accord |
| 6th Oct Cairo Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat hold their first official meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to begin work on realizing terms of the Israeli-PLO accord |
| 5th Dec A Palestinian boards a bus and opens fire with an assault rifle in the first major attack in Israel since the signing of a peace pact with the PLO; the gunman kills a reservist before being gunned down |
| 30th Dec Israel and the Vatican agree to recognize one another, Pope John Paul II normalizes relations between the Vatican and Israel |
| 1993 | Weizman, Ezer | |
| 24th Mar Ezer Weizman is elected Israel's 7th President |
| 1994 | Goldstein, Baruch | |
| 25th Feb Hebron In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and kills 29 people |
| 25th Feb Hebron In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron killing 29 people |
| 1994 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| Israel establishes the elite squad, Egoz (walnut in Hebrew), to track Shiite guerrillas in southern Lebanon |
| The Israelis abduct Mustafa Dirani, the leader of a Lebanese Shiite group - the Believer's Resistance, from his Lebanese home |
| 10th Jan Taba Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resume in Taba, Egypt |
| 9th Feb PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initial an agreement on security measures that had been blocking a peace accord |
| 25th Feb Hebron In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and kills 29 people |
| 25th Feb Hebron In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron killing 29 people |
| 13th Mar The Israeli Cabinet outlaws two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives, branding them terrorist organizations |
| 31st Mar The PLO and Israel agree to resume talks on Palestinian autonomy, more than a month after the Hebron mosque massacre |
| 6th April Afula A car rigged with explosives detonates next to a bus in Afula, Israel. 8 Israelis are killed and 45 wounded in Hamas 's 1st car bombing |
| 7th April Pope John Paul II makes remarks at the conclusion of a concert in commemoration of the Shoah (holocaust), in which he acknowledges the Nazi Holocaust killing of Jews |
| 13th April Hadera A Palestinian blows himself up on a bus in Hadera in central Israel, six Israelis are killed and 25 wounded, Hamas 's 1st suicide bombing |
| 20th April Jericho Israeli and PLO negotiators wrapped up an agreement transferring civilian government powers to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Jericho |
| 24th April Israeli and PLO negotiators agreed on an accord to give the Palestinians control of health care, taxation, education and other services in West Bank areas still controlled by Israel |
| 29th April Paris Israel and the PLO sign an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho |
| 1st May Israeli and PLO delegates open a final round of talks in Cairo, Egypt, on Palestinian autonomy prior to the signing of an agreement on self-rule |
| 4th May Jericho Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that grants self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho |
| 14th May West Bank The West Bank town of Jericho sees it's first full day of Palestinian self-rule following the withdrawal of Israeli troops, an event celebrated by Palestinians |
| 16th May Gaza Israel begins its final withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, shutting down the prison and military headquarters where Israeli soldiers had been in charge since the 1967 Middle East War |
| 18th May Gaza Israel's three decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip end as Israeli troops completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities take over |
| June Ein Darbara An Israeli helicopter gunship at Ein Darbara, Lebanon, kills at least 30 Hezbollah trainees |
| 15th June Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations |
| 19th July Buenos Aires A bomb rips apart a Panama commuter plane, killing 21, including 12 Jews, a day after a car bomb destroys a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 95 people |
| 25th July Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein sign a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war |
| 1st Sep Morocco establishes low-level diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 8th Oct Israel and Jordan open the first road link between the two countries |
| 17th Oct Leaders of Israel and Jordan initial a draft peace treaty |
| 19th Oct Tel Aviv A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 22 Israelis and wounds 48 in a bus explosion in Tel Aviv, Hamas take responsibility. |
| 25th Oct Gazarip Violence breaks out in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli undercover soldiers kill Imad Akel, the head of the military wing of Hamas |
| 26th Oct Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan sign a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton |
| 25th Dec Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up on a bus in Jerusalem and wounds 12 Israelis, Hamas takes responsibility |
| 1995 | Amir, Yigal | |
| 4th Nov Rabin is sssassinated by a right-wing, 27 year old Israeli law student, Yigal Amir, at a Tel Aviv peace rally |
| 1995 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| 2nd Feb Cairo The leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians hold an unprecedented summit in Cairo to try to revive the Mideast peace process |
| 9th Mar Gaza Two Palestinians blow themselves up outside two Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and kill seven Israeli soldiers and an American, Alisa Flatow, the Islamic Jihad and Hamas take responsibility |
| 24th July Tel Aviv A Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a crowded commuter bus in Tel Aviv and kills six Israelis and wounded 28, Hamas take responsibility |
| 21st Aug Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem and kills 4 Israelis, 1 American, and wounded more than 100 people, Hamas take responsibility |
| 24th Sep West Bank Israel and the PLO initial an agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank following USAmediation |
| 28th Sep West Bank Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents |
| 28th Sep West Bank The Israeli parliament approves a pact with Palestine by a slim 61-to-59 margin, Israel's religious right has insisted that God gave "Judea" and "Samaria" to the Jewish people 2,000 years ago and Rabin is a traitor for giving it away |
| 10th Oct West Bank Israel begins a West Bank pullback and freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners |
| 4th Nov Death of Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated |
| 4th Nov Rabin is sssassinated by a right-wing, 27 year old Israeli law student, Yigal Amir, at a Tel Aviv peace rally |
| 6th Nov Jerusalem Funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
| 6th Nov Jerusalem Funeral services were held in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, President Clinton led the USAdelegation, Arab dignitaries also attended, including Jordan's King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak |
| 12th Nov Israel's ruling Labor Party unanimously approves Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
| 1995 | Weissman, Ezer | |
| 24th July Tel Aviv A Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a crowded commuter bus in Tel Aviv and kills six Israelis and wounded 28, Hamas take responsibility |
| 21st Aug Jerusalem A Palestinian suicide bomber blows up a bus in Jerusalem and kills 4 Israelis, 1 American, and wounded more than 100 people, Hamas take responsibility |
| 24th Sep West Bank Israel and the PLO initial an agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank following USAmediation |
| 24th Sep West Bank Rabin and the PLO under Arafat, sign a pact, Oslo II, in Taba, Egypt, ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities |
| 10th Oct Israel releases 900 Palestinian prisoners but President Ezer Weissman has held up the pardon of two women arrested for anti-Israeli violence, contravening a core provision of a pact signed in September |
| 2005 | Peres, Shimon | |
| 9th Nov Amir Peretz defeats the Party Leader, Shimon Peres |
| 2005 | Peretz, Amir | |
| 9th Nov Amir Peretz defeats the Party Leader, Shimon Peres |
| 9th Nov Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party |
