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2006 Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers

2005 Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

2003 Ilan Ramon, astronaut, ", first Israeli in space, mission specialist on Columbia, STS-107, ", dies at 48

1995 Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress

1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65

1995 Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84

1994 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies

1994 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)

1994 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington D.C.)

1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies

1994 Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96

1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron

1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat

1993 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't

1993 Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord

1993 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible

1993 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon

1992 Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies

1992 Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies

1992 Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election

1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad

1992 Menachem Begin, Israeli Statesman

1992 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies

1992 Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack

1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen

1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters

1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo

1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court

1988 PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence

1988 Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament

1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years

1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos

1986 Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government

1986 President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres

1986 King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres

1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane

1986 Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands

1985 Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed

1985 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus

1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed

1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese

1983 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed

1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM

1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation

1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president

1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60

1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut

1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace

1982 Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut

1982 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut

1982 U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1982 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington

1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut

1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO

1982 Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians

1982 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77

1981 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut

1981 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections

1981 Israeli F-15's and F-16's destroys Iraqi plutonium production facility

1980 U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital

1980 Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61

1979 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns

1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo

1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt

1978 Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace

1978 Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord

1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit

1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London

1978 Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas

1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks

1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

1978 Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon

1978 Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai

1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt

1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli government

1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter

1977 Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)

1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

1977 France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics

1977 Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide

1976 Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda

1975 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany

1974 Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government

1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir

1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez

1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army

1973 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon

1973 Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal

1973 Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria

1973 Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea

1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108

1973 David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman

1972 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists

1972 Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered

1972 Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered

1970 Oded Fehr, Israeli Actor

1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor

1968 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes

1968 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport

1968 Israeli television begins transmitting

1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases

1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die

1967 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat

1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal

1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza

1967 Israeli/Syrian border fights

1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

1966 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75

1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights

1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion

1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

1964 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government

1963 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government

1963 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM

1963 Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns

1960 Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires

1959 Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election)

1959 Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns

1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany

1958 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84

1958 Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine

1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense

1957 Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns

1957 Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77

1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships

1957 United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt

1957 Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula

1956 Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai

1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran

1955 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government

1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die

1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48

1954 Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53

1954 Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Scientist

1953 Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies

1952 Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata

1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments

1951 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government

1951 PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad

1951 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1951 Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day

1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service

1950 Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel

1949 Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister

1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president

1949 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins

1948 Israeli Defence Forces crosses Egyptian border

1948 Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev

1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army

1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army

1948 Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir

1948 Israeli pound becomes legal tender

1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth

1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army

1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers

1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army

1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast

1945 Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Musician

1942 Ehud Barak, Israeli Statesman

1936 Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor, King

1933 Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam

1932 Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli Novelist

1928 Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor

1928 Ariel Sharon, Israeli Leader

1927 Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister

1923 Victor Hochhauser, British impresario, Israeli Philharmonic Orch

1922 Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman

1918 Jigal Allon, Israeli politician

1918 Chaim Herzog, Israeli president

1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense

1915 Abba Eban, Israeli Diplomat

1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978

1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef

1909 Silvan Shalom, Israeli Politician

1905 Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, Discovering Jerusalem

1904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina

1898 Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74

1897 Paul Ben-Haim, [Frankenburger], Munich Germany, Israeli composer

1895 Levi Eshkol, [Sjkolnik], Israeli Prime Minister, MWP, 1963-69

1892 Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer, Night Watch

1891 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist

1886 David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman

1885 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset, 1949-59

1878 Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist, Ich und Du

1874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, 1st President

1874 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert

1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians



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