Modern Israel & the Diaspora
(1970 - 1979)
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Israel participates in the Soccer World
Cup finals. |
February 2 |
Heavy fighting on Golan
Heights |
February 22 |
Palestinian
terrorists blow up Swissair jet
in mid air |
March |
USSR steps up missile shipment
to Egypt |
April |
Israel announces
Soviet pilots are flying operational
missions for Egyptian airforce |
May 9 |
Israel warns against installation
of Soviet missiles close to Suez Canal |
May 22 |
Terrorists attack schoolbus,
killing 12 (9 of whom were children),
and wounding 24 in Avivim, Israel. |
| June 25 |
Secretary Rogers discloses
U.S. initiative to end war
of attrition along Suez Canal for
90 days and resumption of stalled Jarring
mission |
July 23 |
Egypt,
after Nasser visit
to Moscow, accepts U.S. initiative |
July 26 |
Jordan accepts
U.S. initiative |
August 4 |
Israel accepts
U.S. initiative, is assured of continued military
and economic aid from the U.S. |
August 7 |
Cease-fire goes into effect
on Suez Canal |
August 7 |
Egypt violates
cease-fire by moving missiles into “stand-still” zone.
Israel protests to U.S. |
August 8 |
American-brokered cease-fire
ends War
of Attrition with Egypt |
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Refusenicks are sentenced
to death in the USSR for hijacking an
airplane. |
September |
Heavy fighting between
Jordanian army and Palestinian terrorists.
Syria invades Jordan. U.S. moves Sixth
Fleet to Eastern Mediterranean |
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Black
September: clashes between Jordanian
forces and the PLO, in an attempt by
the PLO to take control of the country,
end in Jordanian victory; the PLO regroups
in Lebanon. |
September 6 |
Three airliners holding
over 400 passengers were hijacked, and
taken to the Jordanian airport by the
PFLP. The hostages were released in exchange
for terrorists held in Germany, Switzerland,
and England |
September 16 |
Hussein proclaims
martial law in Jordan and installs military
governments to fight terrorists |
September 18 |
Prime Minister Meir meets
President Nixon. Israel refuses to return
to Jarring talks until Egyptian missiles
are withdrawn |
September 27 |
Arab heads of state agree
on formula to end hostitilies in Jordan |
September 28 |
President Nasser dies,
succeeded by Anwar
Sadat |
November 5 |
UN General Assembly calls
for 90 day extension of cease-fire and
resumption of Jarring talks |
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The Black Panthers movement
becomes active in Israel among North
African Jews, and begins protesting against
social conditions; violent demonstrations
erupt in Jerusalem. |
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The three millionth citizen arrives
in Israel. |
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Demands of Soviet Jews to immigrate
to Israel continue to intensify. |
February 15 |
Sadat formally
informs Jarring Egypt willing
to envisage peace arrangement with Israel
- on his conditions. |
February 26 |
Israel informs Jarring it
is keen to negotiate peace arrangements
with Arab states but cannot give prior
committments on borders and other items
to be negotiated. Jarring mission deadlocked |
April |
Fighting erupts again in Jordan between
the King's forces and Palestinian terrorists |
April 17 |
Egypt,
Syria and Libya sign agreement to form
Federation of Arab Republics |
May 27 |
Egypt and
USSR sign 15-year treaty of friendship
and co-operation. |
| July 23 |
Sadat is
granted full powers by Arab Socialist
Union to take action to recover Arab
lands from Israel. |
August 12 |
Syria breaks
off diplomatic ties with Jordan following
border clashes |
November 28 |
Jordanian Premier Wasfi
Tal assassinated in Cairo by Palestinian
terrorists. |
December 2 |
Prime
Minister Golda Meir meets President
Nixon in Washington |
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Ordination of first (Reform) Jewish woman
rabbi in U.S. |
March 15 |
Hussein announces plan
to make Jordan federal
state. Israel, Egypt, Jordan,
Libya reject the plan |
April 6 |
Egypt breaks
off diplomatic relations with Jordan because
of Hussein's federal plan. |
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Special paratrooper unit
of the IDF,
dressed as Arabs, free hostages on a
hijacked Sabena plane in Lod. |
May 9 |
Palestinian-inspired Japanese
terrorists murder 27 people (including
21 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico)
at Lod Airport. |
July 18 |
Sadat terminates services
of Soviet military advisers |
August 31 |
Anti-Semite Bobby Fischer wins the World Chess Championships |
September |
Stepped up Soviet military
shipments to Jordan,
including misiles for the defense of
Damascus |
September 5 |
Eleven Israeli athletes
are murdered at the Munich
Olympic Games by Black September,
a terrorist group affiliated with Fatah.
(The same group also hijacks a plane
en route to Tel Aviv and holds the passengers
and crew hostage for 23 hours. The hostages
are rescued by IDF counterrorism commandos.) |
October 15 |
Israel strikes at terrorist
bases in Jordan and
Lebanon |
October 29 |
West Germany releases Munich
killers after German airliner is hijacked |
November 1 |
USSR agrees to restore
missiles to Egypt's
air defence system |
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Conservative Movement's
Committee on Jewish Laws and Standards
(CJLS) of the Rabbinical Assembly approves
minority opinion allowing women to count
in a minyan; by 1996, fully 83% of Conservative
synagogues counted women in their minyan. |
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Saudi government buys 25%
participation interest in Aramco. |
March 1 |
Prime Minister Meir meets
President Nixon in Washington |
| March 1 |
Palestinian terrorists
kill U.S. Ambassador, his deputy head
of mission, and Belgian diplomat in Khartum |
March 28 |
Sadat proclaims
himself military governor of Egypt,
and declares martial law |
May 24 |
Ephraim
Kazir becomes Israel's fourth president. |
September 13 |
Thirteen Syrian
MIG-21 planes downed in aerial battle
off Syrian coast. |
October 6 |
The
Yom Kippur War begins with Egyptian
and Syrian forces attacking across
1967 ceasefire lines (Egypt crosses
Suez Canal, Syrian forces attack Golan
Heights |
October 6-7 |
First naval
battle in history fought with only missiles
between Israel and Jordan.
All Syrian ships sunk; no Israeli losses. |
October 7 |
Syrian attack
contained |
October 8 |
Israeli counter-offensive
in Sinai fails |
October 10 |
Syrian forces
driven back in Golan. Israel stablizes
new line in Sinai |
October 12 |
IDF advances
to within 28 miles from Damascus |
October 13 |
IDF repels
Jordanian and Iraqi forces fighting with
Syrians in the Golan Heights |
October 14 |
Operation Nickel Grass: U.S. covertly delivers weapons and supplies to Israeli positions during the Yom Kippur War. |
October 15 |
First IDF forces
cross Suez Cana |
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Countering
massive sea and air lift of Soviet arms
to Egypt and Jordan,
U.S. starts air lift to Israel |
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Israel's military
attache in Washington is killed by terrorists. |
October 17 |
Arab Oil Embargo
announced. Arab oil producing states
announce 10 percent reduction in oil
production and impose total embargo on
U.S. and Netherlands. |
| October 17 |
Sadat proposes
a cease-fire |
October 19 |
President Nixon
asks Congress to appropriate $2.2 billion
for emergency aid to Israel |
October 20 |
Israel expands
its bridgehead on West Bank of Suez Canal,
besieging Third Egyptian Army |
October 22 |
UN
Resolution 338 is passed. First
cease-fire declared on southern front.
Fighting continues |
October 24 |
Second cease-fire
declared on southern front; cease-fire
on northern front. |
October 25 |
President Nixon
orders world-wide alert as fear of Soviet
military intervention on Egypt's behalf
mounts. |
October 25 |
Security Council
establishes UNEF to supervise cease fire. |
October 31 |
Premier Meir
arrives in Washington for talks with
President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger |
November 11 |
Truce agreement
(6 point agreement for the stabilisation
of the cease-fire) signed with Egypt at "Kilometer
101." |
November 15 |
Exchange of
POWs with Egypt. |
November 18 |
Governement
decides to set up state commission of
inquiry (Agranat Commission) into the
beginnning of the war. |
December 1 |
David
Ben-Gurion dies and is buried at
his home in Kibbutz Sde Boker in the
Negev. |
December 21 |
Geneva
Peace conference on Middle East
opens. |
December 31 |
Election of
the Eighth
Knesset. |
January |
Shuttle diplomacy by Dr.
Kissinger to bring about Israel-Egypt
separation of forces agreement |
January 18 |
Israel-Egypt separation
of forces agreement is signed in kilometer
101 on the Cairo-Suez road |
January 18 |
Sinai
Disengagement Agreement signed
between Israel and Egypt. |
March |
Continued war of attrition
along the Israel-Syria cease-fire line |
March 4 |
Israeli army deployed along
new lines in Sinai in accordance with
disengagement agreement |
| March 18 |
Arab states lift oil embargo
on the U.S. |
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Saudi government incesases
its participation interest in Aramco
to 60%. |
April 11 |
In Kiryat Shemona, Israel,
18 are killed, 8 of whom were children,
by PFLP terrorists who detonated their
explosives during a failed rescue attempt
by Israeli authorities. |
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Golda
Meir’s government resigns,
including Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
and Foreign Minister Abba Eban, after
the criticism of the government's handling
of the Yom Kippur War. |
May 15 |
Terrorists murder 26 people
(22 of them children) at a school in
Ma'alot. |
May 31 |
Golan
Heights Disengagement Agreement signed
between Jordan and
Israel. |
June 3 |
Yitzhak
Rabin becomes Prime Minister. |
June 16 |
U.S. President Nixon visits
Israel. First visit from U.S. president. |
June 18 |
IDF completes its withdrawal
from the “Syrian bulge” in
the framework of the Israel-Syria Disengagement
of Forces agreement |
July 1 |
Rabin proclaims
there is no room for another state between
Israel and Jordan |
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U.S.-Israel Binational
Science Foundation is founded. |
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Ordination of first Reconstructionist Jewish woman
rabbi, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. She
serves a joint Conservative-Reconstructionist-affiliated
congregation, making her the first
woman rabbi to serve a Conservative
congregation. |
August 10 |
President Ford assures
Israel the U.S. will honor its committments |
September 10-13 |
Prime Minister Rabin pays
an official visit to Washington, holds
talks with President Ford and senior
administration officials. |
October 14 |
The General
Assembly votes 105 against 4 to invite
the PLO to participate in the debate
on the “Palestine question.” |
October 26-30 |
Arab summit conference
in Rabat determines that the PLO is the
sole representative of the Palestinian
Arabs and removes Jordan from
a future role in the West Bank |
November 1 |
Reacting to the Rabat decisions,
Israel announces there will be no talks
with the PLO |
November 13 |
Arafat before
the General Assembly calls for the liquidation
of Israel and the establishment of a “secular
democratic Palestine” |
November 14 |
Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff comments that Jews exert too much influence in the U.S., because Jews “own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers.” |
November 18 |
An IAF helicopter crashes
in Haifa bay. The crew survives. |
November 20 |
UNESCO condemns Israel
for its archaeological digs in Jerusalem. |
November 22 |
PLO receives
observer status at the UN. |
December 10 |
71 Senators condemn recent
UN resolutions against Israel |
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Good Fence Policy instituted between Israel and Lebanon. |
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Israel unveils its first locally manufactured
figher jet, the Kfir, on Independence
Day. |
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The 100,000th immigrant from the USSR
arrives. |
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The West Bank city of Ma'ale Adumim
is founded. |
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Settlers establish the town of Elon
Moreh without the authorization of the
government, which evacuates them. |
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Saudi, Kuwaiti, and Venezuelan concessions
come to an end. |
March 6 |
Terrorists murder 18 civilians
and three IDF soldiers
in an attack on a Tel
Aviv hotel |
March 22 |
Talks with Secretary Kissinger
are suspended. President Ford announces
a review of U.S. arms deliveries to Israel |
March 29 |
Sadat announces the opening
of the Suez Canal on June 5 |
April 10 |
President Ford pledges
another effort for peace in the Middle
East |
April 13 |
The start of the 1975-76
civil war in Lebanon |
May 11 |
Israel and
the European Economic Community sign
an agreement giving Israel Associate
Membership |
July 4 |
Terorist bomb kills 15
people (including two children) at Zion
Square in Jerusalem. |
June 5 |
The Suez Canal is reopened
for navigation |
June 10-11 |
Rabin holds talks in Washington
with President Ford |
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“Black Muslims” in
America cultivate Sunni recognition. |
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President Gerald Ford signs
legislation including the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment, which ties U.S. trade
benefits to the Soviet Union to freedom
of emigration for Jews. |
September |
First residents move into Yamit |
September 1 |
Second Sinai agreement
signed with Egypt.
Israel-Egypt interim agreement is signed
in Jerusalem and Alexandria. An Israel-U.S.
protocol is also signed. |
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Israel becomes
an associate member of the European Common
Market. |
October 10 |
Israel signs
the military protocol after U.S. Congress
approves U.S. presence in Sinai. Abu
Rudeis oil field handed to Egypt |
October 22 |
Joint Israel-Egypt military
commission meets for the first time in
Sinai |
November 10 |
UN
General Assembly passes a resolution
declaring Zionism
to be a form of racism. |
November 13 |
Terrorist bomb in Jerusalem kills
seven. |
January 12 |
The Security Council opens
Middle East debate. PLO invites, Israel
boycotts the sessions. |
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The U.S. vetoes a draft
resolution in the Security Council. The
discussion ends with no resolution being
adopted. |
January 26-29 |
Prime Minister Rabin pays
an official visit to the U.S., addresses
a joint session of Congress |
February 22 |
IDF completes withdrawl
under the Interim Agreement |
March 22 |
The U.S. vetoes an anti-Israel
draft resolution at the conclusion of
a Security Council discussion on the
situation in the West Bank |
March 30 |
Land
Day is marked by Israeli
Arabs for the first time. |
April 12 |
Elections are held in 24
municipal and local councils in the West
Bank |
June 27 |
Air France airliner enroute
from Tel Aviv to Paris is hijacked after
a stop over in Athens. It is flown to Entebbe. |
July 3-4 |
IDF troops mount dramatic
rescue of hostages taken to Entebbe,
Uganda. Three passengers and the commander
are killed during the operation. |
July 11 |
Israeli Rina Mor wins the Miss Universe
competition. |
August 5 |
Israel and the U.S. initial
an agreement for the supply to Israel
of two nuclear reactors. |
August 11 |
Terrorists attack El Al
passengers in Istanbul airport |
September |
At its sixty-sixth session
held in Cairo, the Arab
League Council accepts Palestine,
as represented by the PLO, as a full
member of the Arab League equal to all
other members |
October 21 |
Jewish novelist Saul Bellow is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. |
December 10 |
The General Assembly adopts
a resolution for a nuclear free zone
in the Middle East |
December 21 |
Prime Minister Rabin submits
his government's resignation, after controversy
erupted when F-15 fighters landed after
the onset of Shabbat. |
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The first Jewish civilian settlement in Gaza is built |
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U.S. Israel Binational
Agricultural Research and Development
Fund (BARD) and the Binational
Industrial R&D
(BIRD) Foundation are established. |
March 7-9 |
Prime Minister Rabin visits
Washington for talks with President Carter |
March 9 |
President Carter announces
new U.S. policy for the Middle East |
April 7 |
Yitzchak
Rabin announces his resignation
as Labor
Party leader following allegations
of foreign currency violations. |
April 7 |
Maccabi
Tel Aviv basketball team wins European
championship for the first time. |
May 10 |
A Yassur helicopter crashes
during exercise near Jericho and
54 paratroops are killed. |
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The United States adopts anti-boycott
legislation. |
May 17 |
Likud party wins elections
held for the Ninth
Knesset. This markes the first loss
of power for the Labor Party. |
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Likud forms
government after Knesset elections, end
of 30 years of Labor rule. Menachem
Begin becomes Prime Minister. |
July 6 |
The U.S. rejects Israeli
request to sell 24 Kfir fighter-bombers
to Ecuador. |
July 13 |
Sadat says he will end
the state of war with Israel only after
complete Israeli withdrawl and will consider
a peace treaty 5 years after last Israeli
soldier leaves the territories. |
July 19-21 |
Prime Minister Begin and
President Carter confer in Washington
and reach agreement on the need for Israel
to negotiate with the Arab states in
the framwork of a Geneva conference in
the fall of 1977. |
August 8 |
Carter says that if PLO
accepts Resolution 242 in its entirety,
the U.S. would then start discussions
with this organization. |
August 9 |
Israel rejects any idea
of PLO participation in the peace negotiations
even if it accepts Resolution 242. |
August 9 |
Jewish serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, is caught. |
October 1 |
U.S. and the Soviet Union
issue a joint communique on the Middle
East, which is welcomed by Arabs and
criticized by Israel. |
October 13 |
Jewish-American physicist Rosalyn Yalow wins the Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine for her work dealing with insulin research and diabetes.
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October 28 |
Israel government launches
new economic program, floats the pound
and makes it freely convertible, controls
on foreign currency abolished. |
November 9 |
Israeli jets attack PLO
base near Tyre. President Sadat announces
his readiness to come to Jerusalem to
address the Knesset. |
November 11 |
Begin broadcasts to the
Egyptian people and invites Sadat to
Jerusalem for peace talks. |
November 15 |
Begin sends written invitation
to Sadat to come to Jerusalem. Sadat
says his trip is a holy mission. |
November 19 |
Visit of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem. |
November 20 |
After praying at the al
Aksa mosque Egyptian President Sadat addresses
the Knesset calling for Israeli withdrawal
and the establishment of a Palestinain
state. |
November 21 |
Sadat meets with Knesset
factions and in a press conference with
Begin calls on Israel to make drastic
decisions to reciprocate his visit. Begin-Sadat
agreed communique says “no more
wars.” Sadat leaves
for Cairo. |
December 5 |
Egypt severs
diplomatic relations with Jordan,
Iraq, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen
in retaliation for their decision to
suspend relations with Egypt in
protest against Sadat's initiative. The “rejectionist” Arab
states conclude a 5-day summit meeting
in Tripoli. |
December 14 |
Cairo conference opens.
PM Begin arrives in U.S. for talks with
President Carter on the Israel peace
plan. |
December 16-17 |
Begin and Carter confer
in Washington. Sadat invites Begin for
talks with him in Egypt |
December 25 |
Prime
Minister Menachem Begin confers
with Egyptian
President Sadat in Ismailiya, Egypt. |
December 26 |
Ismaliya summit concluded
with a joint Begin-Sadat press conference.
Disagreement over the Palestinian issue
prevented a joint communique. |
December 28 |
Carter praises Begin peace
plan, but prefers a Palestinian homeland
or entity linked to Jordan. |
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Israel wins the Eurovision Song Contest. |
January 1 |
Karnei Shomron settled
by Gush
Emunim. |
January 4 |
Carter and Sadat meet in
Aswan, issue the “Aswan proclamation” calling
for the recognition of the legitimate
rights of the Palestinian people and
their participation in the determination
of their future. |
February 2 |
Carter administration will
propose to Congress a package deal for
the sale of jet plans to Israel, Egypt and
Saudi Arabia. |
February 15 |
U.S.
threatens to withdraw Israel request
for jet planes if Congress blocks sale
to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. |
March 11 |
Coastal Road Massacre:
Arab terrorists hijack buses on the Haifa-Tel
Aviv road leaving 37 civilians dead and
scores injured. Begin postpones his U.S.
visit and Weizman returns home. |
March 13 |
PLO forces flee Southern
Lebanon. Beirut calls on UN to ward off
an Israeli attack, U.S. declines to cite
PLO as responsible for the bus attack. |
March 14 |
Israel
Defense Force crosses the Lebanese
border, seizes a strip of 7 miles along
the border. Begin says IDF will remain
in Lebanon until an agreeement reached
ensuring the area no longer serve as
terrorist base. |
March 16 |
Operation
Litani launched in southern Lebanon |
March 19 |
IDF takes
over entire Southern Lebanon to the Litani
River as U.S. seeks Security Council
Resolution that will dispatch an international
force to replace the IDF. Security Council
adopts Resolution 425 calling for immediate
withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon
and the stationing of a UN force there. |
March 21-22 |
Begin and Carter hold two
days of talks in White House. U.S. and
Israel are in disagreement over a number
of issues. UN forces arrive in Southern
Labnon. |
April 11 |
IDF starts
withdrawl from Lebanon |
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Peace Now is founded. |
April 19 |
Yizhak
Navon become Israel's fifth president. |
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Yiddish writer Isaac
Bashevis Singer receives Nobel
Prize. |
May 15 |
The Diaspora Museum opens
in Tel
Aviv |
May 16 |
Senate approves the sale
of warplanes to Israel, Egypt and
Saudi Arabia. Israel expresses its regret,
Arab leaders are pleased. |
July 9 |
Egypt transmits
to Israel its Six Point Peace Plan based
on the return of Gaza to Egypt and
the West Bank to Jordan.
Israel rejects the plan. |
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Camp
David Accords include framework
for comprehensive peace in the Middle
East and proposal for Palestinian self-government. |
September 6-17 |
The Camp David conference
ends in the signing, at the White House,
of two agreements:
the first dealing with an Israel-Egypt
peace treaty and the restoration of Sinai
to the latter; the second, a framework
agreement establishing a format for negotions
on a five-year autonomy regime in the West
Bank and Gaza region.
Israel-Egypt peace talks to begin shortly
with the aim of signing the treaty no
later than 17 December. |
September 9 |
Jewish film pioneer Jack Warner dies. |
September 25 |
The Israeli Government
approves the Camp David agreements by
an 11-2 vote. Commerce and Industry Minister
Hurwitz resigns. |
September 27 |
The Knesset approves the
Camp David agreement by a vote of 84
for, 19 against, 17 abstentations. |
October 12 |
Opening of the talks at
Blair House on the Israel-Egypt peace
treaty. Talks run into difficulties over
teh linkage between the treaty and developments
in teh West Bank and Gaza; oil supply
for Israel, a target date for teh establishment
of the autonomy and Egypt's demands for
early Israeli withdrawal. |
November 21 |
The Israel Government adopts
the text of the Peace Treaty, but Egypt introduces
new demands regarding teh stages of withdrawal
from Sinai and the oil rights Israel
is to have on wells it discovered and
developed in Sinai. |
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American neo-Nazis receive
permission to march in Skokie. After
Supreme Court denies Skokie's request
to cancel the march, the Nazis hold a
rally in Marquette Park, Chicago instead. |
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Natan
Sharansky is convicted of espionage
and receives a 13 year sentence. |
December 10 |
Prime
Minister Begin and Egyptian
President Sadat are awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize. |
December 14 |
Funeral of Golda Meir. |
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The Hebrew University returns to its
rebuilt pre-1948 campus on Mount Scopus. |
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JTS Faculty Senate tables
issue of ordaining women because of “provoking
unprecedented divisions . . . . The bitter
divergence of opinion threatens to inflict
irreparable damage.” |
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A revolution in Iran forces
the Shah to flee and an Islamic Republic
is created under Ayatollah Khomeini.
Americans are taken hostage and held
for 444 days in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. |
March 1-4 |
Begin-Carter talks in the
White House. After initial serious disagreement,
a last minute solution is reached on
some remaining issues. |
March 10-13 |
President Carter visits
Israel and wins additional concessions
from Israel. |
March 14 |
President Sadat accepts
the last minute changes brought from
Jerusalem by President Carter, thus paving
the way for teh signing of the peace
treaty. |
March 19 |
The Israel Government approves
the text of the peace treaty. |
March 22 |
The Knesset approves the
Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, by a vote
of 95 for, 18 against, 2 abstentations,
3 absent. |
March 26 |
Peacy treaty between Egypt
and Israel signed in Washington, D.C. |
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Israel-Egypt
Peace Treaty signed and Arab relations
with Egypt are
severed. |
April 2-3 |
Prime Minister Begin pays
an official visit to Cairo, meets with
President Sadat. |
April 30 |
The first Israeli vessel
flying the Israeli flag sails through
the Suez Canal. President Carter again
terms Israeli settlements in Judea and
Samaria an obstacle to peace and contrary
to international law. |
May 25 |
El Arish is handed over
to Egypt within
the implementation of the first phase
of Israeli withdrawal from Sinai. Israeli
and Egyptian negotiators meet in Beersheva
for the first round of the autonomy talks
in the presence of Secretary of State
Vance. |
June 27 |
In an air battle over Lebanon,
Israeli air force plans down six Syrian
MIG 21's. |
July 2-3 |
Newly appointed U.S. special
envoy for the autonomy talks, Robert
Strauss, meets with Prime Minister Begin
in Jerusalem and President Sadat in Alexandria. |
July 10-12 |
Prime Minister Begin and
President Sadat meet
for two days of talks in Alexandria. |
July 19 |
The U.S. and the USSR agree
to replace UNEF in Sinai by UNTSO. Three
days later Israel announces its objections
to the plan. |
July 24 |
The Security Council terminates
the mandate of UNEF. Members of this
force will be replaced by UNTSO. Israel
opposes the plan saying it is not an
acceptable alternative multi-national
force. Israel's objections are termed
by the U.S. as “misconceptions.” |
August 3 |
The IDF destroys
three terrorist bases in southern Lebanon. |
September 24 |
Israel air force planes,
on a reconnaissance flight over Lebanon,
clash with and down four Syrian MIG 21's. |
November 7 |
Ambassador Sol Linowitz
succeeds Robert Strauss as the U.S. special
envoy for the autonomous talks. |
November 15 |
Mt. Sinai and the Saint
Catharine region are returned to Egypt two
months ahead of schedule. |
November 25 |
Israel returns the Alma
oil field in A-Tour to Egypt. |
December 31 |
Following a meeting between
President Carter and Defense Minister Weizman,
the U.S. announces the addition of $200
million to the $2.2 billion loan included
in the special aid to
Israel in teh wake of the Israel-Egypt
peace treaty |
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Saddam
Hussein becomes Iraq's head
of state. |
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