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Balfour Declaration
The British announce the support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. -
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Jewish Immigration
total amount of Jews in Palestine increases from 170,000 to 400,000 people -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a mass murder of the Jewish faith. 6,000,000 Jews were killed, 5,000 Jewish communities were destroyed -
The Partition on Palestine
The UN General Assembly voted in favor of a resolution, which adopted the plan for a partition of Palestine -
al-Nakba / Establishment of Israel
To Israel it's a day of celebration, for the Palestinians and Arabs it's a day of rage. Palestinians and Arabs had rejected a United Nations plan to partition the country between Jews and Palestinians. Arabs from Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq joined Palestinians to battle against Jews. -
The Formation of te PLO
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The Six Day War
This war lasted from June 5, 1967 to June 10, 1967. The war was against Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Israel believed that it was only a matter of time before the three Arab states co-ordinated a massive attack on Israel -
Munich Olympics
The first few days of the Olympic Games went smoothly. On September 4, the Israeli team spent the evening out to see the play, Fiddler on the Roof, and then went back to the Olympic Village to sleep. A little after 4 a.m. on September 5, as the Israeli athletes slept, eight members of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Black September, jumped over the six-foot high fence that encircled the Olympic Village. -
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War started with a surprise Arab attack on Israel on Saturday 6th October 1973. On this day, Egyptian and Syrian military forces launched an attack knowing that the military of Israel would be participating in the religious celebrations associated with Yom Kippur. Therefore, their guard would temporarily be dropped. -
Camp David Accords
Since the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel had occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Penninsula, both former Egyptian territories. Starting in 1971, President Sadat of Egypt had been working to reclaim the Sinai and expel Israel. When repeated negotiations failed, Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. When the bloody war was over, Egyptian forces had been driven back over the Suez Canal. But both sides appeared to be hurt in the war.