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The Jewish state
In1896 following the appearence of anti-semitism in Europe Theodore Herzl tried to find a olitical solutuion for the problem in his book. -
The establishment
Then on November 2, 1917, the British Foreign Minister Arth
ur Balfour committed Britain to work towards “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” -
Britians
Britain occupied the region at the end of the World War I in 1918 and was assigned as the mandatory power by the League of Nations on 25 April 1920. -
UN general
On 29 November 1947, 33 countries of the UN General Assembly voted for partition, 13 voted against and 10 abstained. This led to the creation of Israel. -
State of israel
The State of Israel, the first Jewish state for nearly 2,000 years, was proclaimed on May 14, 1948 in Tel Aviv. -
war
In 1956 Israel, France and Britain went to war against Egypt -
blockaded shippng lanes
On June 5, 1967:
Egypt blockaded Israeli shipping lanes in the Red Sea, expelled UN peacekeeping troops from the border of the Sinai and built up its own troops in the area. -
leadership
In the 1970s, under Yasser Arafat's leadership, PLO factions and other militant Palestinian groups launched a series of attacks on Israeli and other targets. -
killed by the palestinian group
Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September on September 5, 1972. -
attacking israel
On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked Israel. -
camp david accords
In 1979, after intensive negotiations conducted by the U.S., Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David accords. -
sadat was assasinated
Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by Islamist elements in the Egyptian army, who opposed peace with Israel -
israel-arab peacemaking
The election of the left-wing Labour government in June 1992, led by Yitzhak Rabin, triggered a period of frenetic Israeli-Arab peacemaking in the mid-1990s. -
peace agreement jordan and israeli
In July 1994 Prime Minister Mr. Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan signed a peace agreement ending 46 years of war and strained relations. -
rabin assasinated
rabin was assasinated