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Theodor Herzl,announced Zionism's goal of establishing a legally assured home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
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Sharif Hussein was the ruler of the Muslim holy city of Mecca.
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Bristhish promised to created a Jewish homeland in the region comprising the ancient Land of Israel.
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The League of Nations divided Ottoman lands between the Bristish and the French after World War I.
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Nazy Germany attacked and conquered most of Europe.
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The Un General Assembly voted to partition the Palestine Mandate into an Arab state and a Jewish state and to internationalize the city of Jerusalem.
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This was the first Arab-Israeli war and is know in Israel as the War of Independence and by the Palestinian Arabs as the Catastrophe.
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The Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO) was formed with the aim of destroying Israel and Creating a Palestine state in its place.
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The Israeli government approved the building of settlements in the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, and West Bank.
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In the days before the war, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq moved their armies to Israel's borders.
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Israel gained land from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
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Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
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Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt signed agreements in Camp David.
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As a result of intense diplomatic efforts by the United State.
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PLO units in southern Lebano increasingly attacked communities in northern Israel.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank engaged in an uprising, or infitada, against israeli control of these territories.
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The Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority.
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Trade, business relations, tourism, cultural exchanges, and scientific cooperation between the two nations.
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American President Bill Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to Camp David in July 200.
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There is no definitive event marking the end of the Second Intifada.Many people suggest late 2004 or early 2005.
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Beirut Summit of the Arab League.
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Israel responded to the suicide bonbings by constructing a security barrier to protect its citizens from terrorist groups in the West Bank.
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Ia a plan for peace that was proposed in 2003 by the "Quarter":the United State, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations.
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The Gaza disengagement was very controversial domestically.
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Palestinians elected a mojority of Hamas members to the Palestinian Authority's lesgislatures over the PLO's Fatah party that had previously been in power.
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Hezbollah, a radical Islamist organization commited to destroying Israel.
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Ongoing tensions between Hamas and the PLO's Fatah party culminated in june 2007.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice organized a conference between Israel and Palestinian Authority's Fatah leader.
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Israel targeted Hamas strongholds in Gaza to stop ongoing rocket attacks on civilian towns in southern Israel and to distrupt the terrorist infrastructure and weapons smuggling.
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Egypt and Israel bean a blockade to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons and missiles into Gaza.
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In 2006 Hamas militans kidnapped Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid into Israel from Gaza via underground tunnels.
