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600s |
The Arabs conquered the region |
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1000s -1200s The Crusades when Christians tried to claim the area and particularly Jerusalem |
1800s |
The Zionists start a movement to set up a Jewish state in Palestine |
1900s |
Conflict between the Jewish and Arab populations |
1914 |
1914 - 1918 World War I |
1917 |
The Balfour Declaration issued by Great Britain supporting the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
1939 |
1939-1945 World War II and the Holocaust when approximately 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis |
1945 |
August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
1947 |
The United Nations divided the region into an Arab and a Jewish state |
1948 |
17 May: The Nation of Israel was established |
1949 |
Israel take half of the Arab state |
1950 |
The Law of Return was passed allowing any Jew, with just a few exceptions, to settle in Israel |
1967 |
Six-Day War, Jerusalem reunited. |
1968 |
1968-1970 Egypt's War of Attrition against Israel |
1973 |
Yom Kippur War |
1979 |
Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty |
1984 |
Operation Moses, immigration of Jews from Ethiopia |
1992 |
New government headed by Yitzhak Rabin |
1995 |
Prime Minister Rabin assassinated at peace rally and Shimon Peres becomes prime minister |
2000 |
September 28: Palestinians initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount |
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