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Operation Yachin bring Moroccan
Jews to Israel as Morocco leaglizes
immigration to Israel. |
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Israel's first nuclear reactor becomes
operational at Nahal Sorek. |
January 11 |
The Egoz, a ship
bringing Morccan Jews to Israel - sinks. |
March 16 |
IDF raids
Syrian positions east of Sea of Galilee,
following Syrian shelling. |
April 9 |
Security Council condemns
Israel for Galilee raid. |
April 11 |
Eichmann
trial begins at Beit Ha'am in Jerusalem. |
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Israel
Beer, military historian and advisor
to the Minister of Defense, is arrested
for spying for the USSR and is sentenced
to 15 years in jail. |
August 15 |
Elections for the Fifth
Knesset. |
September |
Civil war in Yemen - Egypt and
Saudi Arabia intervene. |
September 28 |
Syrian military
coup d'etat breaks up the UAR. |
December 11 |
Eichmann found
guilty. |
December 15 |
Eichmann sentenced
to death by hanging, the first and only
person in Israel to receive the death
sentence. |
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In a landmark Supreme Court decision,
the Ministry of Interior is ordered to
recognize the marriage of a Jew and a
Christian performed in Cyprus. |
February 8 |
Pro-Egyptian Colonel Arif
overthrows Qassim regime in Iraq |
March 8 |
Officers group connected
with Ba'ath party takes over power in Syria. |
March 20 |
Knesset calls
on West Germany to forbid its scientists
to aid Egyptian missiles and arms development. |
April 17 |
Egypt, Syria and Iraq agree
on new federation; also call for liberation
of Palestine. |
April 23 |
President Yitzchak
Ben-Tzvi dies. |
May 21 |
Zalman
Shazar becomes Israel's third President. |
June 16 |
David
Ben-Gurion resigns as Prime Minister
and Minister of Defense and retires.
He is replaced by Levi
Eshkol. |
June 24 |
Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol presents his government
to the Knesset. |
July 22 |
Nasser renounces Egypt's
federation agreement with Syria and Iraq,
and denounces Syria's Ba'ath party. |
November 18 |
Military coup in Iraq;
Arif becomes President. |
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Arafat's Fatah begins the “armed
struggle” against Israel, undertaking
its first cross-border attack on January
1. |
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Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba
proposes recognition of Israel. |
January 1 |
Palestinian
terrorists attempt to bomb the
National Water Carrier - the first
attack carried out by the PLO's Fatah faction. |
February 12 |
West Germany announces
suspension of arms sales to Israel. |
May 11 |
The Israel
Museum in Jerusalem is founded
as the country's national museum. |
May 12 |
Israel and West
Germany establish diplomatic
relations. |
May 18 |
Eli
Cohen is hanged in Damascus after
being found guilty of spying for Israel. |
May 31 |
Jordanian Legionnaires
fired on the neighborhood of Musara in Jerusalem,
killing two civilians and wounding four. |
June 1 |
Syria declares:
Only solution for Palestine - elimination
of Israel. |
July 5 |
A Fatah cell
planted explosives near Beit
Guvrin, and on the railroad tracks
to Jerusalem near
Kfar Battir. |
July 15 |
Chief of Staff Rabin says
Israel has effectively deterred Arab
States from diverting Jordan River headwaters. |
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Teddy
Kollek becomes Mayor of Jerusalem;
he is re-elected six times and serves
28 years. |
November 2 |
Elections for the Sixth
Knesset. |
December 29 |
U.S. confirms sale of tanks
to Jordan. |
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The new Knesset building
in Jerusalem is inaugurated. |
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The Coca-Cola Company announces it
will open a plant in Israel in defiance
of the the Arab
Boycott. |
May 2 |
Konrad Adenauer visits
Israel. |
May 16 |
Two Israelis killed when
their jeep hit a terrorist landmine
in Northern Galilee. Tracks led into Syria. |
May 18 |
Eshkol declares
in Knesset that Israel will not be first
to introduce nuclear weapons to Middle
East; calls for limitations on regional
arms build-up. |
May 19 |
U.S. confirms sale of jet
fighters to Israel. |
July 13 |
Two soldiers and 1 civilian
killed when their truck struck a terrorist landmine
near Almagor. |
July 25 |
Serious clashes between
Israel and Syria, followed by inconclusive
Security Council debate. |
November 4 |
Syria and Egypt sign
mutual defence treaty providing for joint
command. |
November 13 |
Israel raids Samu village
following incursions from Jordan. |
December 10 |
Israeli writer Shmuel
Yosef Agnon receives the Nobel
Prize in Literature with a German-Jewish
author, Nelly Sachs. |
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Ben
Gurion University of the Negev
is opened. |
January |
Heavy fighting along Israel-Syria borders. |
April 7 |
Israeli aircraft shoot
down 7 Syrian Migs. |
April 11 |
Security Council deplores
Arab attacks on Israel. |
May 7-14 |
Reports circulating in Tel Aviv of
pending Israeli attack against Syria |
May 13 |
UAR recieves intelligence reports,
apprarantly from Soviets, warning of
Israeli attack on Syria. |
May 14 |
Nasser declares alert in Egypt and
bolsters his forces in Sinai. UAR chief-of-staff
flies to Damascus. |
May 15 |
Egyptian forces continue
pouring into Sinai, UAR forces stand
on alert, deployment begins. |
May 16 |
Israeli's begin to show concern over
UAR deployments towards Sinai . Propoganda
campaign begins in UAR and spreads across
the Arab world. |
May 17 |
Egyptian President Nasser
orders UN forces to evacuate the Gaza
Strip and Sinai. Reports of UAR troops
being withdrawn from Yemen to Sinai.
Israel begins mobilization. |
May 18 |
UAR calls for the United Nations Emergency
Force to withdraw from Egyptian territory. |
May 19 |
UN Emergency Force withdrawn
at Egypt's request. Israel declares partial
mobilization. |
May 20 |
Nasser declares alert in Egypt and
state of emergency in Gaza. Unites with
111 other Arab nations two of which (Syria
and Iraq) openly called for the destruction
of Israel. Sixth fleet carrier task groups
directed to move eastward towards Crete. |
May 21 |
UAR mobilizes reserves. |
May 22 |
Egypt declares
the Straits
of Tiran closed to Israeli shipping. |
May 23 |
Eshkol warns Egypt of
gravity of blockade. |
May 23 |
Security Council adjourns,
having failed to take any action on Middle
East crisis. |
May 30 |
Egypt and Jordan sign
mutual defence pact in Cairo. |
June 1 |
National Unity Government
formed; Moshe
Dayan appointed Defense Minister. |
June 2 |
Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff permits Sixth
Fleet to commence in-port upkeep periods,
reflecting relaxation of tensions. |
June 3 |
Iraq joins UAR-Jordan defense pact. |
June 4 |
UAR and Iraq forces enter Jordan |
June 5 |
Israeli air force pre-emptively
attacks Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian
and Iraqi air force bases; efectively
neutralizing them. IDF ground forces
attack Egyptian forces in Sinai and
the Gaza
Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol conveys message to King Hussein
of Jordan through UN Chief of Staff
in Jerusalem that
Israel has no intentions of attacking Jordan.
At 10:20 Jordan launches
attack on Israel.Following Jordanian
artillery and small arms attacks
and a Jordanian incursion into the
DMZ in Jerusalem, IDF forces commence
operations against Jordanian military
positions in Judea, Samaria, and
Jerusalem.
MOLINK exchanges with Soviet leaders
begins. UAR and Jordan begin concocting
and disseminating false intervention
charge. Crisis in Benghazi where British
troops rescue trapped Americans. Crisis
at Wheelus AB. |
June 6 |
Egyptian forces continue pouring into
Sinai. Initial U.S. military moves negative,
to avoid giving impression of U.S. intervantion.
JCS disapproves movement of Amphibious
Force from Malta,. Algeria, UAR, Syria,
Sudan, and Yemen break relations with
the U.S. Algeria and Kuwait ban all shipments
to the U.S. and the U.K. |
June 7 |
Jerusalem reunited. |
June 8 |
IDF
completes deployment in Sinai (including
the Gaza
Strip). Cease-fire declared with Egypt and Jordan as
fighting continues with Syria. USS
Liberty mistankenly attacked by Israeli
Air Force. |
June 9 |
IDF forces move against
Syrian forces on the Golan
Heights. |
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President Nasser resigns,
withdraws resignation some hours later. |
June 10 |
IDF completes deployment
in the Golan
Heights; cease-fire declared with
Syria. USSR and other East European nations,
except Rumania, sever diplomatic ties
with Israel. |
June 12 |
Israel announces it will
not withdraw to 1949 armistice lines
before peace is achieved by direct negotiations. |
June 19 |
President
Johnson Outlines 5
point U.S. peace plan. |
June 27 |
Knesset passes
the Protection
of Holy Places Law. |
June 28 |
Israel proclaims
unification of Jerusalem. |
June-June |
Draft resolutions
denouncing Israel as aggressor, calling
for evacuation of liberated territory
are rejected by the General Assembly. |
August |
Arab
summit in Khartoum state: No negotiations
with Israel, no peace with Israel and
no recognition of Israel. |
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Open Bridges
policy across the Jordan River bridges,
for goods and people, is instituted. |
September 1 |
Arab summit
conference in Khartum proclaims policy
of no peace, no recognition and no negotiations
with Israel. |
October 21 |
Sea-to-sea
missiles fired from Egyptian missile
boats sink Israeli destroyer "Eilat," killing 47 Israelis. |
October 25 |
Israeli artillery
destroys Egyptian oil refineries in Suez. |
November 22 |
UN
General Assembly Resolution 242 is
adopted. |
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Egypt's
War of Attrition against Israel: 1968-70. |
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Israel TV transmits its
first broadcast, the 20th Independence
Day military parade. |
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Jews return to Gush
Etzion, abandoned after its capture
by the Jordanians in 1948. |
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Jews return to Hebron,
abandoned after the Jewish massacres
in 1929. |
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Polish government outlaws
Jewish language and institutions. |
January 27 |
The Israeli Navy submarine
Dakar and crew disappear at sea en route
from England. |
February 7 |
Eshkol ends two days of
talks with President Johnson in Texas. |
March 12 |
Nasser proclaims
three stage doctrine of struggle against
Israel. |
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Israeli
army attack on PLO base
at Karameh, Jordan. |
May 26 |
First Jerusalem
Day celebrated. |
June 22 |
Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol declares that the Jordan
River is Israel's security border. |
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Labor
party is formed from the union
of Mapai, Ahdut
Ha'avodah and Rafi. |
July 17 |
PLO's
Palestinian National Council adopt covenant calling
for Israel's destruction. |
July 22 |
The Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP) carries out the first hijacking,
diverting an El Al flight to Algiers.
32 Jewish passengers were held hostage
for 5 weeks. |
July |
Ba'thists seize power in
Iraq. |
September 4 |
One killed and seventy-one
wounded by three bombs that exploded
in Tel Aviv. |
October |
Hijacking
for El Al aircraft en route to Algeria. |
October 8 |
Foreign Minister Eban offers
nine point peace plan at UN General Assembly. Egypt rejects
plan and demands that Ambassador Jarring
work out a timetable for Israeli withdrawl
from disputed areas. |
October 27 |
Fighting breaks out again
along Suez Canal, Suez oil refineries
again hit. |
November 19 |
Israel allows return to
disputed areas thousands of refugees
who fled to Jordan in
the Six
Day War. |
November 22 |
Twelve killed and fifty-two
injured by a car bomb in the Mahaneh
Yehuda market, Jerusalem. |
December 2 |
Heavy fighting erupts on
Israel-Jordan borders. |
December 4 |
Israel aircraft attack
Iraqi artillery units in Jordan. |
December 26 |
Arab terrorists attack
Israeli airliner in Athens. |
December 27 |
U.S. announces
sale of Phanton jets to Israel. |
December 28 |
IDF raids Beirut airport,
destroying 13 airliners without loss
of life. |
February 18 |
Israeli airliner attacked
in Zurich. |
February 21 |
Two killed and twenty injured
by a bomb detonated in a crowded market
in Jerusalem. |
February 26 |
Levi
Eshkol dies suddenly. |
February 4 |
Yasser
Arafat elected chairman of the PLO. |
March 7 |
Golda
Meir becomes Prime Minister after Eshkol's death. |
April 19 |
Soviet missiles installed
in Egypt,
following announcement by Nasser that Egypt has
completed rehabilitation of its army
and is moving to stage of active defense. |
April 23 |
Egypt repudiates
cease-fire along Suez Canal. |
May 11 |
Jordan forbids
terrorist raids against Israel from its
territory, following Israel warning and
raids. |
July 7 |
UN Secretary
General U Thant proclaims that war
of attrition is taking place along
Suez Canal. |
July 20 |
Israel airforce begins
bombing targets inside Egypt. |
July 31 |
Israel repels Syrian attack
in Golan
Heights. |
August 21 |
Al-Aqsa
Mosque damaged by arson. |
August 23 |
Nasser calls for all out
war against Israel. |
August 29 |
American airliner hijacked
to Damascus; two Israeli passengers detained
. |
September 1 |
Coup d'etat in Libya overthrows
monarchy. Moammer Qaddafi heads Revolutionary
Command Council. |
October |
Secret U.S.-USSR talks
on Middle East peace. Talks fail when
Nasser rejects plan. |
October 13 |
Israel proposes home rule
for West
Bank, retaining responsibility for
security. |
October 22 |
Four killed and twenty
wounded by terrorist bombs in five apartments. |
| October 28 |
Elections to the Seventh
Knesset. |
December 9 |
U.S. Secretary of State
Rogers announces American
Plan for peace in the Middle East. |
| December 12 |
Israel rejects Rogers
plan. |