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A conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs in the Middle East. The United Nations established Israel, a nation under control of Jews, in Palestine in the late 1940s, in territory inhabited by Palestinian Arabs.
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Relations between Israel and its neighbours had never fully normalized following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In the period leading up to June 1967 tensions became dangerously heightened.
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The Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. The outnumbered Israel Defense Forces achieved a swift and decisive victory in the brief war.
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The Yom Kippur war was satarted due to the Arab-Israeli conflict and in this war the Egyptians and Syrians hoped to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war. When Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur the war started.
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After the war Israel’s victory came at the cost of heavy casualties, and Israelis criticized the government’s lack of preparedness. Then later in April 1974, the nation’s prime minister, Golda Meir stepped down.
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In 1977 the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadet announced that Egypt wanted peace with Israel.
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US president Jimmy Carter invided Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin to camp david to sign a peace treaty later known as the Camp David Accords
