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1051 BC Saul becomes the first King of Israel.
439 The monastery of Mar Saba is founded near Bethlehem
, Israel.
1945 Zionist
World Congress approaches British government to talk about founding of Israel.
1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Egypt
, Transjordan
, Lebanon
, Syria
, Iraq
and Saudi Arabia
attack Israel.
1948 Operation Magic Carpet to transport Jew
s from Yemen
to Israel begins.
1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Israeli troops drive Egypt
ians from Negev.
1949 In the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion
becomes Prime Minister
.
1949 The Knesset
(Israeli parliament) first convenes.
1949 Israel is admitted to the U.N. as its 59th member.
1950 IBM
Israel begins operating in Tel Aviv
1950 The Knesset
passes a resolution that states Jerusalem
is the capital of Israel.
1950 Britain formally recognizes Israel
1952 In Hague tribunal, Israel demands reparations worth 3 billion dollars from Germany
.
1952 Diplomatic relations established between the governments of Israel and Japan
at the level of Legations.
1952 Reparation negotiations between West Germany
and Israel end in Luxembourg
- Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
1953 The Soviet Union
breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
1953 David Ben Gurion resigns as a prime minister
of Israel
1956 Austria
and Israel form diplomatic relations.
1956 Suez Crisis
begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula
and push Egypt
ian forces back toward the Suez Canal
.
1956 Suez Crisis
: The United Nations
General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom
, France
and Israel to withdraw their troops from Arab lands immediately.
1957 Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula
(they captured it from Egypt
in a battle on October 29, 1956).
1961 Ham, a 37 pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry U.S.
astronaut
s into spa
on trial for crimes against humanity in a court in Jerusalem
, Israel.]]
1961 Adolf Eichmann
is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of three Israeli
judges.
1962 Adolf Eichmann
is hanged in Israel.
1963 April 23 - First election of the Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith
, known as the Universal House of Justice whose Seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa
, Israel.
1965 West Germany
and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
1966 Israeli and Syria
n jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.
1966 Syria
n and Israeli troops clash over Lake Genesaret for three hours.
1966 Israel applies for the outer membership of the EEC.
1967 Benjamin Netanyahu
joins Israeli army.
1967 Six-Day War
: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s.
1967 Syria
mobilizes against Israel.
1967 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiranto Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's
southern port of Eilat
.
1967 Moshe Dayan
becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.
1967 Israel and Syria
agree to observe a United Nations
-mediated cease-fire.
1967 The Soviet Union
severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
1967 Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem
.
1967 Israel annexes East Jerusalem
.
1967 A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem
protests Israel's unification of the city.
1967 Egypt
ian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer ''Eilat
'', killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal
.
1968 The Israeli submarine ''INS Dakar'' sinks in the Mediterranean Sea - 69 dead.
1968 Border clashes take place between Israel and Jordan
.
1969 War of Attrition, between Egypt
and Israel, which lasted until August 1970. This conflict was characterized by escalating artillery duels, air raids and commando missions
1969 Fourteen men, nine of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad
for spying for Israel.
1969 Golda Meir
becomes the prime minister of Israel.
1971 May 15 – Efraim Elrom, Israeli ambassador to Turkey, is kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul
May 25.
1972 May 30 – Three members of the Japanese Red Army kill 24 and injure 100 in Lod Airport, Israel.
1972: Phan Th? Kim Phúc, center left, running down a road near Trang Bang after an ARVN napalm chemical attack in the Vietnam War
. (©Nick Ut/Associated Press).]]
1972 A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London
kills one diplomat.
1972 The Black September group hijacks a Lufthansa
Boeing 727
over Turkey
, and demands the release of three of their comrades still held for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic games
.
1973 Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727
) is shot by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passanger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Among 113 on board only five (one crew member and four passengers) survive.
1973 Egypt
and Israel sign a United States
-sponsored cease-fire accord.
1974 In Israel, Golda Meir
resigns as Prime Minister.
1976 Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France
plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda
, where Israeli commandos storm it on July 4.
1976 In the Entebbe Raid, Israeli
airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France
plane at Uganda
's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
1977 The Likud
Party, led by Menachem Begin
, wins the elections in Israel.
1977 Egypt
ian President Anwar Sadat
becomes the first Arab
leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
and speaks before the Knesset
in Jerusalem
, seeking a permanent peace settlement (much of the Arab world is outraged by the visit).
1978 Coastal Road Massacre: Palestinian terrorists
kill 34 Israelis.
1978 Israeli forces invade Lebanon
in Operation Litani.
1978 Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for Israel with their song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi".
1978 The Camp David peace agreement is signed between Israel and Egypt
.
1979 In a ceremony at the White House
, President Anwar Sadat
of Egypt
and Prime Minister Menachem Begin
of Israel sign a peace treaty.
1980 Israel and Egypt
establish diplomatic relations.
1981 Israeli bombers destroy the PLO headquarters in Beirut
.
1981 Egypt
ian president Anwar Sadat
is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the Egypt
ian Islamic Jihad
organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel.
1982 The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon
invade southern Lebanon
in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut
.
1982 United Nations Security Council
votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon
.
1982 Four Iran
ian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon
.
1983 Lebanon
, Israel, and the United States
sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
1985 Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon
.
1985 The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis
.
1986 Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage
for selling top secret United States
military intelligence to Israel.
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