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Alexander the Great was a mighty Macedonian conqueror that visited Jerusalem around 332 BC.
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The Persion Invasion is described as the most vilontly military raid that affected Byzantine Palestine.
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In 634, Bakr sent troops northwest into Palestine, under Byzantine rule.
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Assyrians conquered Israel in 722.
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Kings David and Solomon establish a Hebrew kingdom. Solomon built the first temple.
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The region comes under Ottoman Turkish rule.
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The relative Jewish majority in Jerusalem is renewed.
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Arab attack on Jewish community of Hebron
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The creation of a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat and others to bring the estblishment of Palestine Liberation Organization.
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The Six-Day War between Israel and Arab.
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Throughout 1972, and for much of 1973, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat threatened war on Isreal unless the U.S. forced Israel to accept his interpretation of Resolution 242.
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With Egypt a treaty partner, Israel turned its attention to the Palestinian guerrillas. Many of them had grouped in Lebanon after being expelled from Jordan by King Hussein, and began attacking Israel from there.
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Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
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Forest fire rages for four days in northern Israel, in December. It is the biggest and deadliest in Israel’s history.
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The sandstorm that has blanketed Israel with thick dust in recent days is the worst that the Jewish state has ever had.
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