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Biographies

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

9 February 1963

Events

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group

29 September 1907

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

17 September 1948

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Elections in Israel

25 January 1949 - 14 February 1949

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital

23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953

Israeli Law of Return

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

David Ben-Gurion Replaces Moshe Sharett as Prime Minister

3 November 1955

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai

7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza

10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957

Civil War in Lebanon

May 1958 - October 1958

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Black September Hijack Operation

Japanese Red Army at Lod Airport

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

October War, 3rd Day

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

Israeli Aerial Bombardment and Palestinian Artillery Across the Lebanon-Israel Border

4 June 1982 - 5 June 1982

Israeli Military Pressure on West Beirut

27 June 1982 - 11 July 1982

Israeli Army Attempts to Conquer Beirut

21 July 1982 - 12 August 1982

Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment

16 January 1997

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Inauguration of LVGR, the Gaza International Airport

20 November 1998 - 24 November 1998

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session

12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif

28 September 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters

14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005

Israel Retaliates Against Shalit's Capture: Operation Summer Rains

28 June 2006 - 8 July 2006

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened

5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 7

US-Israel Disagreement Over the Settlements Freeze

26 June 2009 - 28 July 2009

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 29-31: A 72-Hour Cease-Fire

5 August 2014 - 7 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Toward an Open-Ended Cease-Fire

23 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Talks for a Long-Term Gaza Cease-Fire

7 August 2018 - 10 November 2018

Long-Term Cease-Fire Linked to Palestinian Reconciliation

7 August 2018 - 31 December 2018

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

Creeping Normalization

19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Israeli Settlers Incite Against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah

12 February 2022 - 24 February 2022

Further Israeli Restrictions on Who Can Travel In and Out of the West Bank

20 February 2022 - 30 April 2022

Israeli Settlers and Forces Attack Palestinians During Annual Flag Day March

Netanyahu Forms Radical Right-Wing Israeli Government

29 December 2022

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948

16 September 1948

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

UNSC Resolution 1701

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Jaramana Refugee Camp

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

The Algerians of Palestine

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ras al-Ahmar

'Arab al-Zubayd

Daliyat al-Rawha'

'Iraq al-Manshiyya