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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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2001 Jan 7 |
Pres. Clinton told the people of Israel that "there is no choice for you but to divide this land into two states for two people." Links: Israel, ClintonB
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2001 Jan 11 |
Israeli and Palestinian high level peace talks resumed as Israel lifted the blockade of West Bank towns of Qalqilyah and Jenin and reopened the Palestinian airport in Gaza. Palestinian travel from the West Bank to Jordan and from Gaza to Egypt was opened. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 13 |
The Palestinian Authority executed the 1st 2 Palestinians ever convicted of collaborating with Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 15 |
The Palestinian authority offered amnesty to suspected collaborators with Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 18 |
Ofir Rafum (16) of Israel was murdered in the West Bank after being lured over by a woman via an internet relationship. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 19 |
The US and Israel signed an agreement to phase out economic aid by 2008. half the aid would be replaced by military aid. Separately $80 million was pledged to a UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 20 |
In Israel Prime Minister Barak agreed to a Palestinian proposal for a fresh round of peace negotiations in Taba, Egypt. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 20 |
In the West Bank Israeli soldiers captured Mona Najar (25), suspected in the Jan 18 luring and murder of Ophir Rakhum. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 22 |
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met in Taba, Egypt. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 23 |
In Egypt Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were suspended after Palestinian gunmen executed 2 Israelis, alleged Shin Bet security agents, in Tulkarem. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 25 |
Israel and Palestine continued talks in Egypt as an Israeli motorist was killed in an ambush by the "Thabet Thabet Brigade." Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 27 |
Israel and Palestine ended 6 days of talks in Egypt. They failed to reach a peace accord but declared that they were never closer. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Jan 28 |
In Israel state workers under the Histadrut labor federation expanded their strike with a walkout by workers at Ben-Gurion airport over pay demands. Links: Israel, Labor
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2001 Jan 29 |
An Israeli motorist was killed in the West Bank as Yasser Arafat reversed earlier rhetoric and sent a message for peace. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 6 |
In Israel Ariel Sharon won the elections over Ehud Barak 62.6 to 37.2% with a record low turnout of 62%. Links: Israel
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2001 Feb 7 |
In Israel Ariel Sharon signaled an end to the peace process begun in 1993 in Oslo and planned something in the spirit of Oslo on an interim level. Links: Israel
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2001 Feb 8 |
In Israel 2 blasts from an explosives rigged car injured one woman in Jerusalem. Ehud Barak announced that he would take over Labor Party negotiations to join the Sharon government. Links: Israel
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2001 Feb 9 |
In Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Ehud Barak to serve as defense minister. A Palestinian shepherd was killed by an Israeli bullet. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 10 |
Israel said it would not cooperate with the newly arrived UN human rights mission for a fact-finding tour of Palestinian areas. Links: UN, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 12 |
Israeli soldiers shot and killed 2 Palestinians in the West Bank and dozens of Palestinians were wounded in a gun battle in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 13 |
Israeli gunships killed Massoud Ayyad (57), a Palestinian security official, with anti-tank missiles fired at his car in Gaza. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 14 |
Khalil Abu Olbeh (35), a Palestinian bus driver, drove his bus into a group of Israelis in Tel Aviv and killed 8 people. The dead included 3 male and 4 female soldiers and 1 civilian woman. Olbeh, was later sentenced to eight life terms. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 15 |
In Israel Ehud Barak agreed to become the defense minister under Ariel Sharon. Links: Israel
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2001 Feb 19 |
In the West Bank Mahmoud Madani (25), a Hamas activist, was shot to death from long range. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 20 |
In Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew from a proposed position as Defense Minister under Ariel Sharon. Links: Israel
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2001 Feb 23 |
Palestinians demonstrated against the visit of Colin Powell and one was killed in clashes with Israeli security forces. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 24 |
US Sec. of State Colin Powell met [in Jerusalem, in Cairo] with Igor Ivanor, the Russian foreign minister, and pledged a constructive approach to dealing with Iraq, missile defenses and other points of policy discord. Links: Iraq, Russia, USA, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 25 |
US Sec. of State Colin Powell met separately with Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat seeking to re-establish Middle East cooperation. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 26 |
The US State Dept. issued its annual report on the status of human rights and cited "unconfirmed but credible" reports from China of continued use of torture by police to obtain coerced confessions. Links: USA, China, Israel, Palestine
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2001 Feb 26 |
In Israel the labor party voted reluctantly to join the incoming government of Ariel Sharon. Links: Israel
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2001 Mar 1 |
In Israel a Palestinian in a taxi detonated a bomb that killed one passenger, injured 9 and blew off his own legs. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 2 |
In Israel the Labor Party chose 8 members to serve in the Cabinet of Ariel Sharon. Shimon Peres was named foreign minister and Benjamin Ben-Eliezer as defense minister. Links: Israel
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2001 Mar 4 |
In Israel a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and 3 Israelis in Netanya. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2001 Mar 7 |
In Israel Ariel Sharon took office as the nation’s 11th Prime Minister. He insisted that Palestinians must reduce violence before he would resume negotiations for peace. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 12 |
Israel sealed off the city of Ramallah, the unofficial seat of the Palestinian Authority. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 15 |
Israel arrested 3 members of an elite Palestinian security force who allegedly planned a bomb attack on Israeli West Bank military headquarters. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 20 |
Pres. Bush met with Israel’s Ariel Sharon and urged him avoid provocative acts. Links: USA, Israel, BushGW
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2001 Mar 21 |
In Israel Yitzhak Mordecai, a former defense minister, was convicted for sexual assault and harassment of two women. Links: Israel, Sex
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2001 Mar 23 |
It was reported that the Bush administration had removed the CIA as a broker between Israeli and Palestinian security services. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, CIA, BushGW
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2001 Mar 26 |
In Hebron a Palestinian sniper shot and killed a 10-month-old Jewish girl. A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and wounded in Gaza. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 27 |
Two bombings in Jerusalem wounded some 35 people. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 28 |
Two Israeli teenagers were killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber. Israeli gunships followed up with missile strikes at Arafat’s personal security forces (Force 17) and at least 3 Palestinians were killed. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2001 Mar 28 |
In Jordan an Arab summit convened. Delegates had already approved a draft resolution for the UN to allow Baghdad to fund the Palestinian uprising. Links: Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Arab
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2001 Mar 29 |
Pres. Bush urged Israel to use restraint in military actions and instructed Sec. of State Colin Powell to call Yasser Arafat with the message to stop Palestinian violence. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, BushGW
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2001 Mar 30 |
Israeli Arabs observed Land Day with peaceful marches. Israeli soldiers shot to death 6 Palestinians and wounded over 100. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Mar 30 |
SAP, a large German software firm, announced that it would buy bought Top Tier, a small Israeli software firm founded by Shai Agassi, for $400 million. Top Tier enabled business partners to access SAP applications using a web interface. In 2007 Agassi left SAP and founded Better Place, a company dedicated to building a global network of charging and battery-exchange stations to make electric cars a mass-market proposition. Links: Germany, Israel, M&A, Cars, Software
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2001 Apr 2 |
An Israeli helicopter rocketed a truck and killed an Islamic Jihad militant. In Bethlehem a sniper killed an Israeli soldier. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 3 |
Israel fired rockets at 4 Gaza Strip targets after a 10-year-old boy was injured in a mortar assault on a Jewish settlement. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 4 |
In Israel an armored personnel carrier accidentally overturned in the West Bank and 5 soldiers were killed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 5 |
Iyad Hardan, head of Sarai al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, was killed in the explosion of a booby trapped pay phone in the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 10 |
Israeli rockets were fired at a Palestinian police post next to the Khan Yunis refugee camp. At least 25 Palestinians were wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 11 |
Israel sent tanks and bulldozers into the Khan Yunis refugee camp and demolished over 2 dozen homes. 2 Palestinians were killed and 25 injured in ground fighting. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 16 |
Israeli warplanes struck deep in Lebanon and attacked a Syrian radar site. 3 Syrians were killed. In the evening Israeli helicopters hit Palestinian positions in Gaza in retaliation for a mortar attack on an Israeli town. Bulldozers were sent to tear up farmland near Beit Hanoun, the suspected source of the mortar fire. Links: Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon
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2001 Apr 17 |
Israeli tanks, bulldozers and ground troops seized Palestinian territory but withdrew under US pressure after 18 hours. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 18 |
Israel raided southern Gaza and leveled a Palestinian police station in response to mortar attacks. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 19 |
Israel removed road blocks to Palestinian travel in the Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2001 Apr 20 |
Yasser Arafat proposed that he and Ariel Sharon simultaneously call for an end Israeli-Palestinian violence. Links: Israel, Palestine
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