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Date |
Landmark Events |
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1970 |
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2-Feb |
Heavy fighting on Golan Heights |
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22-Feb |
Palestinian terrorists blow up Swissair jet
in mid air |
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March |
USSR steps up missile shipment to Egypt |
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April |
Israel announces Soviet pilots are flying
operational missions for Egyptian airforce |
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9-May |
Israel warns against installation of Soviet
missiles close to Suez Canal |
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22-May |
Terrorists attack schoolbus, killing 12 (9
of whom were children), and wounding 24 in Avivim, Israel. |
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25-Jun |
Secretary Rogers discloses U.S. initiative
to end war of attrition along Suez Canal for 90 days and
resumption of stalled Jarring mission |
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23-Jul |
Egypt, after Nasser visit to Moscow, accepts
U.S. initiative |
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26-Jul |
Jordan accepts U.S. initiative |
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4-Aug |
Israel accepts U.S. initiative, is assured
of continued military and economic aid from the U.S. |
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7-Aug |
Cease-fire goes into effect on Suez Canal |
|
7-Aug |
Egypt violates cease-fire by moving missiles
into "stand-still" zone. Israel protests to U.S. |
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8-Aug |
American-brokered cease-fire ends War of
Attrition with Egypt |
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Refusenicks are sentenced to death in the
USSR for hijacking an airplane. |
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September |
Heavy fighting between Jordanian army and
Palestinian terrorists. Syria invades Jordan. U.S. moves Sixth
Fleet to Eastern Mediterranean |
|
|
Black September: clashes between Jordanian
forces and the PLO, in an attempt by the PLO to take control of
the country, end in Jordanian victory; the PLO regroups in
Lebanon. |
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6-Sep |
Three airliners holding over 400 passengers
were hijacked, and taken to the Jordanian airport by the PFLP.
The hostages were released in exchange for terrorists held in
Germany, Switzerland, and England |
|
16-Sep |
Hussein proclaims martial law in Jordan and
installs military governments to fight terrorists |
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18-Sep |
Prime Minister Meir meets President Nixon.
Israel refuses to return to Jarring talks until Egyptian
missiles are withdrawn |
|
27-Sep |
Arab heads of state agree on formula to end
hostitilies in Jordan |
|
28-Sep |
President Nasser dies, succeeded by Anwar
Sadat |
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5-Nov |
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|
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UN General Assembly calls for 90 day
extension of cease-fire and resumption of Jarring talks |
|
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Palestinian terrorists hijack a number of
international airliners. |
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1971 |
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Black Panther movement becomes active in
Israel among North African Jews. |
|
15-Feb |
Sadat formally informs Jarring Egypt willing
to envisage peace arrangement with Israel - on his conditions. |
|
26-Feb |
Israel informs Jarring it is keen to
negotiate peace arrangements with Arab states but cannot give
prior committments on borders and other items to be negotiated.
Jarring mission deadlocked |
|
April |
Fighting erupts again in Jordan between the
King's forces and Palestinian terrorists |
|
17-Apr |
Egypt, Syria and Libya sign agreement to
form Federation of Arab Republics |
|
27-May |
Egypt and USSR sign 15-year treaty of
friendship and co-operation. |
|
23-Jul |
Sadat is granted full powers by Arab
Socialist Union to take action to recover Arab lands from
Israel. |
|
12-Aug |
Syria breaks off diplomatic ties with Jordan
following border clashes |
|
28-Nov |
Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tal assassinated in
Cairo by Palestinian terrorists. |
|
2-Dec |
Prime Minister Golda Meir meets President
Nixon in Washington |
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1972 |
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|
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Ordination of first (Reform) Jewish woman
rabbi in U.S. |
|
15-Mar |
Hussein announces plan to make Jordan
federal state. Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Libya reject the plan |
|
6-Apr |
Egypt breaks off diplomatic relations with
Jordan because of Hussein's federal plan. |
|
|
Special paratrooper unit of the IDF, dressed
as Arabs, free hostages on a hijacked Sabena plane in Lod. |
|
9-May |
Terrorists murder 27 people (including 21
Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico) at Lod Airport. |
|
18-Jul |
Sadat terminates services of Soviet military
advisers |
|
September |
Stepped up Soviet military shipments to
Jordan, including misiles for the defense of Damascus |
|
5-Sep |
Eleven Israeli athletes are murdered at the
Munich Olympic Games. |
|
15-Oct |
Israel strikes at terrorist bases in Jordan
and Lebanon |
|
29-Oct |
West Germany releases Munich killers after
German airliner is hijacked |
|
1-Nov |
USSR agrees to restore missiles to Egypt's
air defence system |
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|
1973 |
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Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish
Laws and Standards (CJLS) of the Rabbinical Assembly approves
minority opinion allowing women to count in a minyan; by 1996,
fully 83% of Conservative synagogues counted women in their
minyan. |
|
1-Mar |
Prime Minister Meir meets President Nixon in
Washington |
|
1-Mar |
Palestinian terrorists kill U.S. Ambassador,
his deputy head of mission, and Belgian diplomat in Khartum |
|
28-Mar |
Sadat proclaims himself military governor of
Egypt, and declares martial law |
|
24-May |
Ephraim Kazir becomes Israel's fourth
president. |
|
13-Sep |
Thirteen Syrian MIG-21 planes downed in
aerial battle off Syrian coast. |
|
6-Oct |
The Yom Kippur War begins with Egyptian and
Syrian forces attacking across 1967 ceasefire lines (Egypt
crosses Suez Canal, Syrian forces attack Golan Heights |
|
October 6-7 |
First naval battle in history fought with
only missiles between Israel and Jordan. All Syrian ships sunk;
no Israeli losses. |
|
7-Oct |
Syrian attack contained |
|
8-Oct |
Israeli counter-offensive in Sinai fails |
|
10-Oct |
Syrian forces driven back in Golan. Israel
stablizes new line in Sinai |
|
12-Oct |
IDF advances to within 28 miles from
Damascus |
|
13-Oct |
IDF repels Jordanian and Iraqi forces
fighting with Syrians in the Golan Heights |
|
15-Oct |
First IDF forces cross Suez Cana |
|
|
Countering massive sea and air lift of
Soviet arms to Egypt and Jordan, U.S. starts air lift to Israel |
|
|
Israel's military attache in Washington is
killed by terrorists. |
|
17-Oct |
Arab Oil Embargo announced. Arab oil
producing states announce 10 percent reduction in oil production
and impose total embargo on U.S. and Netherlands. |
|
17-Oct |
Sadat proposes a cease-fire |
|
19-Oct |
President Nixon asks Congress to appropriate
$2.2 billion for emergency aid to Israel |
|
20-Oct |
Israel expands its bridgehead on West Bank
of Suez Canal, besieging Third Egyptian Army |
|
22-Oct |
UN Resolution 338 is passed. First
cease-fire declared on southern front. Fighting continues |
|
24-Oct |
Second cease-fire declared on southern
front; cease-fire on northern front. |
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25-Oct |
President Nixon orders world-wide alert as
fear of Soviet military intervention on Egypt's behalf mounts. |
|
25-Oct |
Security Council establishes UNEF to
supervise cease fire. |
|
31-Oct |
Premier Meir arrives in Washington for talks
with President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger |
|
11-Nov |
Truce agreement (6 point agreement for the
stabilisation of the cease-fire) signed with Egypt at "Kilometer
101." |
|
15-Nov |
Exchange of POWs with Egypt. |
|
18-Nov |
Governement decides ot set up state
commission of inquiry (Agrnat Commission) into the beginnning of
the war. |
|
1-Dec |
David Ben-Gurion dies. |
|
21-Dec |
Geneva Peace conference on Middle East
opens. |
|
31-Dec |
Election of the Eighth Knesset. |
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1974 |
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January |
Shuttle diplomacy by Dr. Kissinger to bring
about Israel-Egypt separation of forces agreement |
|
18-Jan |
Israel-Egypt separation of forces agreement
is signed in kilometer 101 on the Cairo-Suez road |
|
18-Jan |
Sinai Disengagement Agreement signed between
Israel and Egypt. |
|
March |
Continued war of attrition along the
Israel-Syria cease-fire line |
|
4-Mar |
Israeli army deployed along new lines in
Sinai in accordance with disengagement agreement |
|
18-Mar |
Arab states lift oil embargo on the U.S. |
|
10-Apr |
Golda Meir's government resigns |
|
11-Apr |
In Kiryat Shemona, Israel, 18 are killed, 8
of whom were children, by PFLP terrorists who detonated their
explosives during a failed rescue attempt by Israeli
authorities. |
|
15-May |
Terrorists murder 26 people (22 of them
children) at a school in Maalot. |
|
31-May |
Golan Heights Disengagement Agreement signed
between Jordan and Israel. |
|
3-Jun |
Golda Meir’s government resigns and Yitzhak
Rabin becomes Prime Minister. |
|
16-Jun |
U.S. President Nixon visits Israel. First
visit from U.S. president. |
|
18-Jun |
IDF completes its withdrawal from the
"Syrian bulge" in the framework of the Israel-Syria
Disengagement of Forces agreement |
|
1-Jul |
Rabin proclaims there is no room for another
state between Israel and Jordan |
|
|
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation is
founded. |
|
|
Ordination of first Reconstructionist Jewish
woman rabbi, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. She serves a joint
Conservative-Reconstructionist-affiliated congregation, making
her the first woman rabbi to serve a Conservative congregation. |
|
10-Aug |
President Ford assures Israel the U.S. will
honor its committments |
|
September 10-13 |
Prime Minister Rabin pays an official visit
to Washington, holds talks with President Ford and senior
administration officials. |
|
14-Oct |
The General Assembly votes 105 against 4 to
invite the PLO to participate in the debate on the "Palestine
question." |
|
October 26-30 |
Arab summit conference in Rabat determines
that the PLO is the sole representative of the Palestinian Arabs
and removes Jordan from a future role in the West Bank |
|
1-Nov |
Reacting to the Rabat decisions, Israel
announces there will be no talks with the PLO |
|
13-Nov |
Arafat before the General Assembly calls for
the liquidation of Israel and the establishment of a "secular
democratic Palestine" |
|
18-Nov |
An IAF helicopter crashes in Haifa bay. The
crew survives. |
|
20-Nov |
UNESCO condemns Israel for its
archaeological digs in Jerusalem. |
|
22-Nov |
PLO receives observer status at the UN. |
|
10-Dec |
71 Senators condemn recent UN resolutions
against Israel |
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|
1975 |
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6-Mar |
Terrorists murder 18 civilians and three IDF
soldiers in an attack on a Tel Aviv hotel |
|
22-Mar |
Talks with Secretary Kissinger are
suspended. President Ford announces a review of U.S. arms
deliveries to Israel |
|
29-Mar |
Sadat announces the opening of the Suez
Canal on June 5 |
|
10-Apr |
President Ford pledges another effort for
peace in the Middle East |
|
13-Apr |
The start of the 1975-76 civil war in
Lebanon |
|
11-May |
Israel and the European Economic Community
sign an agreement giving Israel Associate Membership |
|
4-Jul |
Terorist bomb kills 15 people (including two
children) at Zion Square in Jerusalem. |
|
5-Jun |
The Suez Canal is reopened for navigation |
|
June 10-11 |
Rabin holds talks in Washington with
President Ford |
|
|
“Black Muslims” in America cultivate Sunni
recognition. |
|
|
President Gerald Ford signs legislation
including the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which ties U.S. trade
benefits to the Soviet Union to freedom of emigration for Jews. |
|
1975-1992 |
Civil War starts in Lebanon |
|
September |
First residents move into Yamit |
|
1-Sep |
Second Sinai agreement signed with Egypt.
Israel-Egypt interim agreement is signed in Jerusalem and
Alexandria. An Israel-U.S. protocol is also signed. |
|
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Israel becomes an associate member of the
European Common Market. |
|
10-Oct |
Israel signs the military protocol after
U.S. Congress approves U.S. presence in Sinai. Abu Rudeis oil
field handed to Egypt |
|
22-Oct |
Joint Israel-Egypt military commission meets
for the first time in Sinai |
|
1-Nov |
United Nations adopts resolution equating
Zionism with racism. |
|
10-Nov |
UN General Assembly passes a resolution
declaring Zionism to be a form of racism. |
|
13-Nov |
Terrorist bomb in Jerusalem kills seven. |
|
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Good Fence Policy instituted between Israel
and Lebanon. |
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1976 |
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12-Jan |
The Security Council opens Middle East
debate. PLO invites, Israel boycotts the sessions. |
|
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The U.S. vetoes a draft resolution in the
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