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Biographies

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943 - 10 March 2026

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

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

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

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage

20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993

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

Attempts to Revive Final Status Talks

16 August 2000 - 28 September 2000

Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif

28 September 2000

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

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

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

Creeping Normalization

19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020

Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers; Palestinians Added to Population Registry

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

Bennett-Lapid Government Accelerates Colonization in its First Six Months

31 December 2021

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

The Knesset Dissolves Itself, Heralding the End of the Bennett-Lapid Government

A Balance Sheet for Bennett-Lapid Government Actions in the West Bank

President Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Gantz Meet in Ramallah; Palestinians Added to Population Registry

7 July 2022 - 12 July 2022

President Biden Visits Israel; Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

13 July 2022 - 14 July 2023

EU and Israel Revive the EU-Israel Association Council

Netanyahu Forms Radical Right-Wing Israeli Government

29 December 2022

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

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)

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

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)

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance

26 December 2018

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019

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

12 January 2021

US-Israel Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

Historical Media

Highlights

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

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

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Algerians of Palestine

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

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

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Places

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ras al-Ahmar

'Arab al-Zubayd

Daliyat al-Rawha'

'Iraq al-Manshiyya