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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 -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, The Holocaust ended in 1945. -
Israel becomes a state
On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted in favor of a resolution, which adopted the plan for the partition of Palestine, recommended by the majority of the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). 33 states voted in favor of the resolution and 13 against. 10 states abstained. -
Al-Nakba / Establishment of Israel
During the 1948 Palestine War, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated and destroyed. -
Formation of the PLO
In 1964, Nassar hosted two Arab summits; at one of the summits, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was born. Based in Egypt, the PLO was to become a key player in Palestinian Arab affairs. -
The Six Days War
Ended on June 10, 1967. -
Munich Olympics
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, when nearly a dozen Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed in what was a terrorist attack by any definition of the term. In addition to the athletes and trainers, a German policeman and five Palestinian kidnappers died that September day. -
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
Camp David Accords, agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours. -
1st Intifada
The reasons behind the first Intifada in 1987 are not only restricted to the events that happened around the time but there is a bigger picture attached to it. The Palestine-Israeli conflict was at the root of the Intifada that gave the world a different view of what was happening in the region between the two sides. The roots for an uprising were sewn as soon as the Israelis started to buy land around the West Bank and gradually started taking over the area. -
Oslo Accords
The Oslo accords are the foundation on which peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are based. Officially called the "Declaration of Principles," the accords were negotiated secretly by Israeli and Palestinian delegations in 1993 in Oslo, Norway, guided by Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst. -
2nd Intifada
Is the name given to the Palestinian Arab violence that began at the end of September 2000. -
Madrid Summit
Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2012 – Madrid provides business and practitioners with the insight and resources necessary to understand today’s customers and effectively connect with them in an ever-changing landscape.
