2015 Event Israeli forces peaceably board and redirect the Swedish Marianne, a ship that was part of Freedom Flotilla III, which sought to enter the Gaza port in violation of Israel's naval blockade; the ship will be taken to the port of Ashdod and inspected 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to speak out against the pending deal with Iran in which sanctions will be lifted in exchange for cuts in Iranian nuclear capacity; Netanyahu warns the pact may lead to nuclear arms acceleration 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling Likud party have retained victory in this week's election; Netanyahu will now focus on forming a coalition government 2015 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to U.S. Congress on his concerns with current negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program, portraying the deal as dangerous; U.S. President Barack Obama dismissed the speech content as 'nothing new' 2014 Event Israel closes visitation to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, citing security concerns after the shooting of Israeli activist Yehudah Glick; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claims that the action is a 'declaration of war' 2014 Event Pope Francis invites Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to pray with him for peace; both leaders accept the invitation 2014 Event In a coma since 2006, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reportedly in critical condition following renal failure 2012 Event A law banning Palestinians who marry Israeli's from gaining citizenship is upheld by Israel's Supreme Court 2011 Event In Cairo, protesters storm the Israeli embassy and force the Israeli ambassador to Egypt to flee 2011 Event The Israeli interior ministry grants its final approval for building 1,600 settler homes in the disputed East Jerusalem 2010 Event After four Israeli settlers are shot at the Israeli settlement Beit Hagai, the Palestinian Authority arrested 250 members of Hamas 2010 Event In Washington, D.C, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group that 'Jerusalem is not a settlement' and Israel has a 'right' to build there 2006 Event Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah's kidnapping of Israeli soldiers 2005 Death Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant 2003 Death Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 2003 Death Ilan Ramon, astronaut, first Israeli in space, mission specialist on Columbia, STS-107, dies at 48 1995 Event Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress 1995 Death Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65 1995 Death Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84 1994 Death Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies 1994 Event 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) 1994 Event Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war 1994 Death Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies 1994 Death Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96 1994 Event Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron 1994 Event Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat 1993 Event Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't 1993 Event Israeli Minister of Foreign affairs Peres and PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord 1993 Event Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1993 Event Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon 1992 Death Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies 1992 Death Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies 1992 Event Rabin wins Israeli parliamentary election 1992 Event 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad 1992 Death Menachem Begin, Israeli Statesman 1992 Death Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies 1992 Death Menachim Begin, Israeli PM, dies at 78 of a heart attack 1990 Event Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen 1990 Event Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters 1990 Event 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo 1989 Event Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court 1988 Event PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence 1988 Event Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament 1988 Event Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years 1988 Death Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos 1986 Event Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government 1986 Event President Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres 1986 Event King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres 1986 Event Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane 1986 Event Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands 1985 Event Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed 1985 Event Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus 1984 Event Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed 1983 Event PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese 1983 Event Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed 1983 Event Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM 1983 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation 1983 Event Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 1982 Event Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60 1982 Event Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut 1982 Event Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peace 1982 Event Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut 1982 Event Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut 1982 Event U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces 1982 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington 1982 Event Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut 1982 Event 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO 1982 Event Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians 1982 Death Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77 1981 Event Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut 1981 Event Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections 1981 Event Israeli F-15's and F-16's destroys Iraqi plutonium production facility 1980 Event U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital 1980 Death Yigol Alton, Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61 1979 Event Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns 1979 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits President Sadat in Cairo 1979 Event Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt 1978 Event Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace 1978 Event Israeli Knesset endorses Camp David accord 1978 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit 1978 Event Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London 1978 Event Israeli government rejects Sadat's call for return of 2 Sinai areas 1978 Event Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks 1978 Event Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut 1978 Event Operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon 1978 Event Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt 1977 Event Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset 1977 Event Menahem Begin forms Israeli government 1977 Event Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter 1977 Event Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) 1977 Event Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes 1977 Event France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics 1977 Death Avraham Ofer, Israeli minister of housing, commits suicide 1976 Event Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe 1976 Event Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda 1975 Event Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany 1974 Event Yitzhak Rabin forms a new Israeli government 1974 Event Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir 1974 Event Israeli forces leave western Suez 1973 Death David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman 1973 Event Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army 1973 Event Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon 1973 Event Israeli tanks under General Sharon move through Suez Canal 1973 Event Israeli counter offensive in southern Syria 1973 Event Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea 1973 Event Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108 1972 Event 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics by terrorists 1972 Death Josef Romano, Israeli olympian, murdered 1972 Death Mosje Weinberg, Israeli olympic wrestling coach, murdered 1969 Event 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor 1968 Event Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes 1968 Event Israeli assault on Beirut Airport 1968 Event Israeli television begins transmitting 1968 Event Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases 1968 Event Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die 1967 Event Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat 1967 Event Israeli troops reach Suez Canal 1967 Event Israeli troops occupy Gaza 1967 Event Israeli/Syrian border fights 1966 Event Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature 1966 Death Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75 1965 Event Israeli/Jordanian border fights 1965 Event Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion 1965 Event Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany 1964 Event Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government 1963 Event Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government 1963 Event Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM 1963 Event Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns 1960 Event Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann 1960 Event Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires 1959 Event Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election 1959 Event Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns 1959 Event Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany 1958 Death Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84 1958 Event Israeli Navy inaugrates it's 1st submarine 1958 Event H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense 1957 Event Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns 1957 Death Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77 1957 Event Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships 1957 Event United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt 1957 Event Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula 1956 Event Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai 1956 Event Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran 1955 Event David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government 1955 Event Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die 1955 Event Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48 1954 Event Israeli act of revenge in Qibiya Jordan, kills 53 1954 Birthday Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Scientist 1953 Death Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Heimliche Gegenwart), dies 1952 Event Czechoslovakian government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata 1952 Event German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments 1951 Event David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government 1951 Event Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad 1951 Event David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election 1951 Event Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day 1950 Event Israeli airline El Al begins service 1950 Event Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel 1949 Birthday Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister 1949 Event Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president 1949 Event 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins 1948 Event Israeli Defence Forces crosses Egyptian border 1948 Event Israeli forces liberate Meron and Gush-Halev 1948 Event Beersheba liberated by Israeli army 1948 Event Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army 1948 Event Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir 1948 Event Israeli pound becomes legal tender 1948 Event Israeli army captures Nazareth 1948 Event Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army 1948 Event Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers 1948 Event 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army 1948 Event Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast 1945 Birthday Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Musician 1942 Birthday Ehud Barak, Israeli Statesman 1936 Birthday Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor, King 1935 Birthday Noam Sheriff, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, musician, composer, conductor, most renowned Israeli musician, director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra 1933 Birthday Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam 1932 Birthday Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style 1928 Birthday Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor 1928 Birthday Ariel Sharon, Israeli Leader 1927 Birthday Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music 1927 Birthday Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant 1923 Birthday Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister 1923 Birthday Victor Hochhauser, British impresario, Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra 1922 Birthday Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman 1918 Birthday Jigal Allon, Israeli politician 1918 Birthday Chaim Herzog, Israeli president 1915 Birthday Abel Ehrlich, born in Cranz, East Prussia, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 1915 Birthday Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense 1915 Birthday Abba Eban, Israeli Diplomat 1913 Birthday Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978 1909 Event 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef 1909 Birthday Silvan Shalom, Israeli Politician 1905 Birthday Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist, Discovering Jerusalem 1904 Birthday Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina 1898 Birthday Golda Meir, Meyerson, Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74 1897 Birthday Paul Ben-Haim, Frankenburger, Munich Germany, Israeli composer 1895 Birthday Levi Eshkol, Sjkolnik, Israeli Prime Minister, MWP, 1963-69 1892 Birthday Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer, Night Watch 1891 Birthday Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist 1886 Birthday David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman 1885 Birthday Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset, 1949-59 1878 Birthday Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist, Ich und Du 1874 Birthday Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman, 1st President 1874 Birthday Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert 1817 Event Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
