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2000 Nov 6 |
Israel rejected a plan for international observers in its conflict with the Palestinians. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 7 |
Pres. Clinton named George Mitchell to head a fact-finding team in the Israeli-Palestinian upheaval. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Nov 8 |
Israeli troops killed 4 Palestinian teenagers and Palestinian gunmen ambushed and killed an Israeli woman (24). Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 9 |
Pres. Clinton met with Yasser Arafat in Washington in an effort to end the bloodshed between Israel and Palestine. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Nov 9 |
Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle and killed Fatah militia leader Hussein Abayat along with 2 nearby women. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 10 |
Israel sealed Bethlehem and Ramallah. Israeli troops killed 5 Palestinians in clashes in the West Bank and Gaza. One Israeli soldier was killed in shooting following a funeral for militia commander Hussein Abayat. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 11 |
A Dagestan Airlines jet was hijacked. The Russian plane was forced to and in Israel with 58 people aboard. Pres. Barak, enroute to Washington, returned to handle the crises. The hijacker surrendered and the plane was returned to Moscow. Links: Russia, Israel, Dagestan, Hijacking
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2000 Nov 11 |
Fighting in the West Bank left 8 Palestinians dead along with 1 Israeli soldier. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 12 |
Pres. Clinton met with Ehud Barak in an effort to end Arab-Israeli fighting. Meanwhile one Palestinian youth was killed in Gaza. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Nov 12 |
Leah Rabin, an outspoken campaigner for Mideast peace following the 1995 assassination of her husband, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, died at age 72. Links: Israel
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2000 Nov 13 |
Palestinian gunmen attacked inside Israeli controlled areas of the West Bank and Gaza and killed 4 Israelis. Elsewhere 4 Palestinians were also killed over the day. Fatah called for the expulsion of Israelis from Gaza and the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 14 |
Israeli troops shot dead 3 Palestinian teenagers (13-19) and a man was killed after settlers threw rocks at his car. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 15 |
On Palestinian Independence Day many processions turned into clashes with Israeli forces and 8 Palestinians were killed. Israeli troops entered 3 Palestinian villages and captured 15 men suspected in recent shootings. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 16 |
Israeli forces attacked 4 targets associated with Fatah. 2 Palestinians were killed in clashes. Israel also reported a freeze on tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 17 |
In Jerusalem Yasser Arafat announced that he had given orders for Palestinian gunmen to halt their shooting. Barak noted the possibility for int’l. supervisors in a peace agreement. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 18 |
A Palestinian police officer sneaked into a Jewish settlement in Gaza and shot dead an Israeli soldier. He wounded 2 others before he was killed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 19 |
Israeli troops killed a 14-year-old stone thrower in Gaza. One other Palestinian was killed and 9 wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 19 |
In Jordan an Israeli envoy was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt. Links: Israel, Jordan
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2000 Nov 20 |
Israel fired a barrage of missiles on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for an attack on a school bus that killed 2 Jewish settlers and wounded 9 others including 3 siblings who lost limbs. At least 35 people were reported wounded in the missile attack. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 21 |
Egypt recalled its envoy from Israel to protest the bombings in Gaza. Links: Egypt, Israel
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2000 Nov 21 |
An Israeli motorist was wounded and a Palestinian was killed in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 22 |
In Hadera, Israel, a car bomb killed at least 2 Israelis and wounded dozens. A Palestinian militia leader and 3 others were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 23 |
The Israeli army ordered Palestinian police to leave liaison offices after 2 soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip. A Hamas member was killed in a car explosion in Nablus. A Palestinian court later sentenced to death a man convicted of helping Israeli security agents assassinate the Hamas bomber. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 24 |
From Russia Vladimir Putin arranged for Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to agree by telephone to reopen 10 joint security offices in the West Bank and Gaza. Links: Russia, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 25 |
Israeli soldiers killed 4 Palestinians and wounded over 30 in a series of clashes that undermined field level cooperation. 2 students and 2 bakers were killed by Israeli soldiers, who claimed Jamal Abdel Razek was a leader of the Tanzim militia traveling with 3 bodyguards. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 26 |
Israel attacked targets in southern Lebanon after a roadside bomb killed one Israeli soldier and wounded 2 others near the border. 4 armed Palestinians were killed as they left Qalqilya into an area on Israeli control. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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2000 Nov 28 |
In Israel Prime Minister Barak agreed to call for early elections. Links: Israel
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2000 Nov 30 |
Palestinians rejected a scaled-back peace plan proposed by Ehud Barak. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 1 |
Israelis killed 2 Palestinians and injured over 20 in clashes in the West Bank and Gaza. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 4 |
Israeli soldiers wounded 25 people in the West Bank village of Husan. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 5 |
The Israeli and Palestinian violence was reported to have cost the Palestinians over $500 million in lost wages and sales since late September. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 6 |
The Israeli Betselem human-rights group condemned the Israeli army for excessive force in combating the Palestinian intifada. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 8 |
In Jerusalem and the West Bank 7 Palestinians and 3 Israelis were killed in the ongoing violence. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 9 |
In Israel Prime Minister Barak announced that he would submit his resignation and call for new elections. Links: Israel
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2000 Dec 10 |
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak submitted his resignation, starting the countdown toward a special election. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intent to unseat Ehud Barak. Links: Israel
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2000 Dec 12 |
Israeli soldiers killed Yousef Abu Swayeh (27), a West Bank Palestinian leader. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 13 |
Fighting in Gaza left 4 Palestinian policemen dead. A Fatah activist was killed in the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 15 |
In Israel Ehud Barak made a bid to restart peace talks as 6 more Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 17 |
Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed to hold talks in Washington prior to the departure of Pres. Clinton. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 19 |
In Israel Benjamin Netanyahu dropped from the election race after the Knesset voted not to disband itself. Links: Israel
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2000 Dec 21 |
In Israel the legislature blocked an attempt by Shimon Peres to run for prime minister. The Feb 6 election pits Ariel Sharon against Ehud Barak. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 21 |
Israeli officials acknowledged a "liquidation" policy for hunting down and killing Palestinian militants. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 22 |
Israel announced that it is prepared to surrender sovereignty over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as part of a peace agreement. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 23 |
Negotiators from Israel and Palestine left Washington without an agreement on critical issues. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 25 |
Pres. Clinton laid down a new set of proposals for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The proposals included a Palestinian concession for some 3.7 million refugees to give up the right of return and for Israelis to cede sovereignty over the Temple Mount. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Dec 28 |
In Israel bombs exploded in Tel Aviv and Gaza shortly after a peace summit was cancelled. 2 Israeli soldiers were killed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec 29 |
In Gaza a Palestinian police officer was killed in a shootout as Israeli soldiers bulldozed a grove of trees. Links: Israel, Palestine, Trees
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2000 Dec 31 |
In the West Bank Binyamin Kahane, son of Jewish extremist Meir Kahane, and his wife Talia were killed in an ambush by Palestinian gunmen. Israeli military soon after killed Thabet Thabet, a Fatah leader. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Dec |
The Holy Land Greek Orthodox Patriarch, Diodorus I, died. Links: Israel, Palestine, Greece
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2000 |
Barry Chamish authored “The Last Days of Israel.” Links: Israel, Books
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2000 |
Samuel G. Freedman authored "Jew vs. Jew," an attempt to illuminate some of the controversy over the question: "who is a Jew." Links: Israel, Jews, Books
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2000 |
Yoram Hazony authored "The Jewish State." Links: Israel, Jews, Books
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2000 |
Vol. 1 of the 4-volume "The Jewish Political Tradition" was edited by Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar and Yair Lorberbaum. Links: Israel, Jews, Books
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2000 |
Ruth R. Wisse authored "The Modern Jewish Canon," an examination of modern Jewish literature. Links: Israel, Jews, Books
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2000 |
Amos Gitai, Israeli film maker, directed “Kippur,” a drama about the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. Links: Israel, Arab, Film
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2000 |
Ilana Pardes authored “The Biography of Ancient Israel.” Links: Israel, Historian, Books
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2000 2001 |
Israeli and Arab hackers vandalized and crashed each others’ websites over a 4-month period. Attacks also occurred against telecom films supplying internet connections. Links: Israel, Internet, Arab
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2000 |
The so-called Gabriel Stone was reportedly found in Jordan. It features an unknown prophetic text from the time of the Second Jewish Temple. In 2013 it went on exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Links: Israel, Jordan
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2001 Jan 1 |
In Israel a car bomb wounded at least 40 people in Netanya and gunfire killed 4 Palestinians in the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 3 |
Yasser Arafat accepted "with reservations" Pres. Clinton’s outline for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement. Links: Israel, Palestine
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