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UN participation plan
On 11/29/1947 there was a vote for the Jewish to get there own states and the people voted 33 said yes 13 said no the Jewish side accepted the UN plan for the establishment of two states the Arabs rejected it and launched a war of annihilation against the Jewish state. And this created Israel today. -
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of armistice agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria to formally end the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab/Israeli War and establish armistice lines between Israeli forces and Jordanian-Iraqi forces. -
The Samu incident
The Battle of Samu was a large cross border assault initiated by the Israeli military on November 13 1966 attacking the Jordanian controlled West Bank village of Samu following a Fatah land mine explosion near the West Bank border which killed 3 Israeli soldiers. -
War
Egypt's War of Attrition against Israel.
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser declared the end of the ceasefire with Israel and, simultaneously, the official beginning of the War of Attrition. Egyptian operations included heavy bombardment of Israeli forts and their access roads, air raids, and ambushes in Israeli territory. -
Peace
Four-point peace initiative proposed by Israel.
Start of mass immigration of Jews from former Soviet Union. -
50th anniversary
Israel celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Israel and the PLO sign the Wye River Memorandum to facilitate implementation of the Interim Agreement. -
New elections called
Prime Minister Sharon disperses the Knesset, calling for new elections to be held -
New minister
After Prime Minister Sharon suffers a stroke, Ehud Olmert becomes acting prime minister.
Following elections on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert forms new government led by the Kadima Party. -
Israel and the Gaza
Israel's plan of unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip and North Samaria put forward by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was carried out on August 15 2005. The purpose of the plan was to improve Israel's security and international status in the absence of peace negotiations with the Palestinians. -
Kidnapping
Israel carried out military operations against Palestinian terrorists in Gaza after kidnapping of Israeli soldier.