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1500 BC |
Abraham, the father of the
Jewish People, lived during this era |
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63 BC |
The Romans conquered the
region |
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66 AD |
66-70 AD the Jews stage a
rebellion against the Roman rule |
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132 |
132-135 AD The Romans forced
the Jews to leave the region of Israel when it then
became known as Palestine
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600s |
The Arabs conquered the region |
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1000s -1200s The Crusades when
Christians tried to claim the area and particularly
Jerusalem |
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1800s |
The Zionists start a movement
to set up a Jewish state in Palestine |
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1900s |
Conflict between the Jewish
and Arab populations |
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1914 |
1914 - 1918 WW1 |
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1917 |
The Balfour Declaration issued
by Great Britain supporting the idea of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine
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1939 |
1939-1945 World War II and the
Holocaust when approximately 6 million Jews were
killed by the Nazis
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1945 |
August: The United States
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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1947 |
The United Nations divided the
region into an Arab and a Jewish state |
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1948 |
17 May: The Nation of Israel
was established |
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1949 |
Israel take half of the Arab
state |
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1950 |
The Law of Return was passed
allowing any Jew, with just a few exceptions, to
settle in Israel
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1967 |
Six-Day War, Jerusalem
reunited.
Israel occupies the Gaza Strip and the West bank at
the end of one of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts
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1968 |
1968-1970 Egypt's War of
Attrition against Israel |
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1973 |
Yom Kippur War |
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1979 |
Israel-Egypt Peace
Treaty |
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1984 |
Operation Moses, immigration
of Jews from Ethiopia |
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1992 |
New government headed by
Yitzhak Rabin |
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1995 |
Prime Minister Rabin
assassinated at peace rally and Shimon Peres becomes
prime minister |
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2000 |
September 28: Palestinians
initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader
Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount |