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UN Partition
Radical Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in Palestine. They thought that they had betrayed the Zionist cause. (History.com) Britain, was unable to find a practical solution, referred the problem to the United Nations. Then they voted to partition Palestine. -
The Arab-Israel War
The Arab- isreal war of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate. The United Nations resolution sparked conflict between Jewish and Arab groups within Palestine . -
6-Day War
The Six day war, also known as the June War. The war was very long. It fought from June 5th to the 10th. Britannica states that the war occurred, rather, after a series of tension. Meaning lots of other events escalated this tension. The war was between Israel and an Egypt-Syria-Jordan alliance. -
Yom Kippur War
Israel’s really good victory in the Six-Day war of 1967 left the Jewish nation in control of territory of four times its usual size. Egypt lost lots of land. Sadat planed to attack Israel again. The Arab armies had very up to dat equipment. Most of the armies had allies. Israel’s victory came at big cost of heavy casualties and government lack of preparedness. In April 1974 the nation’s prime minister Golda Meir stepped down. -
Camp David Accords X2
The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt. -
Oslo Accords
The Oslo was marked the first time Israel and the Palestine liberation Organization formally recognized one another. In 1979, Yasser Arafat asked NOrway to provide a secret back channel to the Israelis . But Israel was not up to it. A decade later the Palestine intifada broke out. It caught the Israel and PLO by surprise. The Oslo Accords created a Palestinian Authority tasked with limited self-governance of parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. -
Mahane Yehuda Market bombings
The 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings were two consecutive suicide bombings carried out by Hamas militants at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, the city's main open-air fruit and vegetable market. Sixteen people were killed in the attack and 178 were injured. -
Maccabean Bridge collapse
Maccabiah bridge collapse was the catastrophic failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, Israel.Believe it or not a person died from falling into the river that was very badly polluted . A subsequent investigation found that negligent shortcuts had been taken in the bridge's construction, mandatory permits and oversight had not been obtained, and the bridge's construction did not meet government requirements. -
Second intifada
Ten Palestinian Arabs are killed during crossfire between Israeli forces and Palestinian Arab militia at the Netzarim junction, among them the twelve year old boy Muhammad al-Durrah who is caught in the crossfire and is allegedly killed in the arms of his father. Al-Durrah's death was filmed by a Palestinian Arab freelance cameraman, and as a result Al-Durrah became a symbol Whether the Israeli forces or the Palestinian Arab militia shot the boy is a matter of dispute. -
Bus Station attack
Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up within 500 meters from each other, only 30 seconds apart, in a crowded area in Tel Aviv outside the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. 23 civilians were killed in the attack and more than a 100 were injured.