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Biographies

Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937 - 12 July 2025
Biography
Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)
14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963

Events

Event
Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907
1899 - 1907
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Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group
29 September 1907
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18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague
21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933
Event
Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York
6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942
Event
Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah
July 1945
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas
19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948
Event
Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May
12 April 1948
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Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area
8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948
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Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee
13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948
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Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City
2 August 1948
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UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem
17 September 1948
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Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas
21 October 1948
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Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved
20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949
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Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"
January 1949 - December 1956
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Elections in Israel
25 January 1949 - 14 February 1949
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Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)
24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949
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Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital
23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953
Event
Israeli Law of Return
5 July 1950
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Israel and the Lavon Affair
July 1954 - 17 February 1955
Event
With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel
3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955
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David Ben-Gurion Replaces Moshe Sharett as Prime Minister
3 November 1955
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Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez
26 August 1956
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Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai
7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956
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Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza
10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957
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25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961
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Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel
1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000
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The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session
12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000
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Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation
13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000
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Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif
28 September 2000
Event
Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Carries Out Operation Determined Path
18 June 2002 - 16 July 2002
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Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries
17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011
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Settlement Consolidation in the West Bank, Including Jerusalem
6 November 2012 - 12 November 2012
Event
With or Without Negotiations, Israel Continues its Settlement Activities
30 May 2013 - 11 August 2013
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction
20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014
Event
Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev
14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015
Event
Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US
13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019
Event
Creeping Normalization
19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020
Event
Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters
15 June 2021
Event
Israeli Settlers Incite Against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah
12 February 2022 - 24 February 2022
Event
Further Israeli Restrictions on Who Can Travel In and Out of the West Bank
20 February 2022 - 30 April 2022
Event
Israeli Settlers and Forces Attack Palestinians During Annual Flag Day March
29 May 2022
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Netanyahu Forms Radical Right-Wing Israeli Government
29 December 2022

Historical Texts

Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
Document
Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference
30 September 1946
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
Document
Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
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Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948
16 September 1948
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Document
Israel Law of Return and its Amendments
5 July 1950
Document
Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)
16 August 1954
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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement
20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
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Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace
23 December 2000
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
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Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan
7 September 2017
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021

Highlights

Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944
From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Places

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al-'Abbasiyya
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al-Bassa
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al-Birwa
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al-Faluja
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al-Ghabisiyya
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al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
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al-Haditha
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al-Kabri
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al-Kafrayn
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al-Khisas
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al-Latrun
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al-Manshiyya
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al-Nahr
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al-Qubab
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al-Ras al-Ahmar
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al-Safiriyya
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al-Sumayriyya
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al-Tall
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al-Tantura
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'Arab al-Zubayd
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al-Barriyya
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Bayt Dajan
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Bayt Nabala
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Bayt Thul
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Bayt Jiz
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Biyar 'Adas
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Daliyat al-Rawha'
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Daniyal
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Dayr Ayyub
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Dayr Muhaysin
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Fajja
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'Iraq al-Manshiyya
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al-Ja'una
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Jimzu
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Kafr 'Ana
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al-Qubayba
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Lifta
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Miska
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al-Nabi Rubin
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Qaytiyya
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Qira
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Qula
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Salama
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Umm al-Faraj
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Zakariyya
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al-Zib
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Deir Yasin
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Yibna
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Bayt Jibrin