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Biographies

Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Events

Event
Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British
January 1944 - March 1944
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946
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Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
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France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War
22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956
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Israel and Refugee Camps in Gaza and West Bank
18 February 1970
Event
Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel
11 April 1974
Event
Yitzhak Shamir Succeeds Menachem Begin as Prime Minister
2 September 1983
Event
Hussein-Peres London Secret Agreement
11 April 1987
Event
US Secretary of State Shultz Negotiations Plan
4 March 1988
Event
Elections in Israel
1 November 1988
Event
Israel Proposes Elections in the West Bank and Gaza
30 March 1989
Event
Israel's "Peace Initiative"
14 May 1989
Event
Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered
1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990
Event
Israel's National Unity Government Collapses
13 March 1990 - 11 June 1990
Event
President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference
1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991
Event
6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington
24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992
Event
Multilateral Talks
29 October 1992 - 12 November 1992
Event
Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles Signed in Washington
13 September 1993
Event
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres's Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem
11 October 1993
Event
Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations
12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994
Event
Final Chapter of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations
31 March 1994 - 1 May 1994
Event
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area Is Signed in Cairo
4 May 1994
Event
Status of Orient House in Jerusalem
29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994
Event
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Is Assassinated; Replaced by Shimon Peres
4 November 1995 - 22 November 1995
Event
Redeployment from Hebron Delayed
28 March 1996
Event
Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Is Elected Prime Minister
29 May 1996 - 18 June 1996
Event
US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation
12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001
Event
Timid Diplomatic Efforts
2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001
Event
Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?
16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001
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Hightened Tension over Attempts to Evict Palestinian Families from Sheikh Jarrah
15 February 2021 - 9 May 2021

Highlights

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III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
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The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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October 1973 War
A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results
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Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992
Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality
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The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure
1993-2000

Historical Texts

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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference
1 June 1991
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Shimon Peres's Letter Concerning Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem
11 October 1993
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Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
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Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
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Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016