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1992 Jun 23 |
Israel's Labor Party upset the hard-line Likud bloc in parliamentary elections. Israeli voters elected the Labor Party’s Yitzhak Rabin as prime minister. Links: Israel 
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1992 Jul 19 |
US Secretary of State James A. Baker III opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy, meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other officials. Links: USA, Israel
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1992 Jul 21 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who said afterward that he'd accepted Rabin's invitation to visit Israel. Links: Egypt, Israel
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1992 Aug 10 |
President Bush met at his Kennebunkport, Maine, vacation home with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Afterward, Bush announced that Mideast peace talks would resume in two weeks in Washington, D.C. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, Maine, BushHW
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1992 Oct 4 |
In the Netherlands an Israeli El Al Jumbo Jet transport, enroute from New York to Tel Aviv, crashed into an Amsterdam apartment complex and killed 43 people. Since then scores of people complained of unidentified health problems. In 1998 it was revealed that the jet carried 50 gallons of dimethyl methylphosphonate, a non-poisonous ingredient of sarin nerve gas, destined for Israel. A report on the crash was released in 1999 and said that the plane's ballast included carcinogenic depleted uranium. Links: Netherlands, Air Crash, Israel, Medical
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1992 Dec 13 |
An Israeli border guard was kidnapped near Tel Aviv and later killed by the Hamas fundamentalist organization. The slaying prompted Israel to expel hundreds of Palestinians, sending them into Lebanese territory. Abdel Aziz Rantisi was among the 400 deported members of Hamas. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1992 Dec 17 |
Israel ordered the deportation of 418 suspected Muslim fundamentalists from the occupied territories. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1992 Dec 18 |
The U.N. Security Council unanimously denounced Israel's deportation of more than 400 Palestinians and demanded their immediate return. Links: UN, Israel, Palestine
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1992 Dec 19 |
More than 400 suspected Muslim fundamentalists deported by Israel were confined to a makeshift refugee camp in a "no man's land" in Lebanon because of the Lebanese government's refusal to accept them. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1992 |
Eddie Antar, founder of the Crazy Eddie electronic retail chain was nabbed in Israel and sent to a US prison. Links: USA, Israel, Retail
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1992 |
In Norway the 1993 Oslo I peace accord was begun in 1992 following a research project on Palestinian living conditions by Terje Roed Larsen. Larsen arranged discussions between Uri Savir of Israel and Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) for Palestine. Links: Israel, Palestine, Norway
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1992 |
China established diplomatic relations with Israel. Links: China, Israel
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1993 Jan 9 |
Two Red Cross officials visited a camp of Palestinians who had been deported by Israel to a no man's land in southern Lebanon. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1993 Jan 19 |
Israel recognized the PLO as no longer criminal. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Jan 28 |
The Israeli Supreme Court unanimously upheld the deportations of 400 Palestinians from the occupied territories to Lebanon. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1993 Feb 1 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that his country would repatriate about 100 Palestinians deported to Lebanon, an offer rejected by the deportees. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1993 Mar 15 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met at the White House with President Clinton, after which Rabin offered to negotiate the return of part of the Golan Heights to Syria. Links: USA, Israel, Syria
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1993 Mar 24 |
Ezer Weizman was elected Israel's seventh president. Links: Israel
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1993 Mar 30 |
Israeli authorities barred West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel after two traffic police officers were shot to death. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Apr 16 |
In Israel 20 soldiers and civilians were injured in Hamas's first suicide attack against Israelis. Shahar al-Nabulsi, detonated a car, rigged by bombmaker Yahya Ayyash, between two buses at Mehola Junction. The blast killed al-Nabulsi and a Palestinian who worked in the rest area. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Apr 27 |
After a hiatus of more than four months, Israeli and Arab delegates resumed Middle East peace talks in Washington, D.C. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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1993 Jul 25 |
Israel launched its heaviest artillery and air assault on Lebanon since 1982 in an attempt to eradicate Hezbollah and Palestinian guerrilla threats. Guerrillas fired rockets into Israel. The fighting ended July 31 with a U.S.-brokered cease-fire. Israel and Hezbollah then agreed not to attack civilian targets, but the cease-fire was short lived. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1993 Jul 27 |
Israeli guns and aircraft pounded southern Lebanon in reprisal for rocket attacks by Hezbollah guerrillas. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1993 Jul 29 |
The Israeli Supreme Court acquitted retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk of being Nazi death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," and threw out his death sentence. Demjanjuk was set free. Soviet archives opened after 1991 seemed to prove that he was not Ivan the Terrible. Links: USA, Israel, Ohio, Nazi
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1993 Jul 31 |
A U.S.-brokered truce halted Israel's weeklong military offensive in southern Lebanon, which was launched in retaliation for guerrilla attacks that killed seven Israeli troops. Links: USA, Israel, Lebanon
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1993 Aug 29 |
Negotiations continued between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with Israel reported on the verge of recognizing the PLO. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Aug 30 |
Israel's Cabinet approved a framework for Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Aug 31 |
Mideast peace talks resumed in Washington amid hopes that a historic agreement to establish Palestinian autonomous areas would be concluded within days. Links: Israel, Palestine, DC
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1993 Aug |
Norwegian academic Terje Roed-Larsen and other Norwegian mediators helped broker a secret peace accord in which the Palestinians formally recognized Israel's right to exist and Israel agreed to establish self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza. The accord allowed thousands of PLO guerrillas to return to Palestine without Israeli interference. Links: Israel, Palestine, Norway
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1993 Sep 4 |
The Fatah faction of the PLO endorsed a peace accord with Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Sep 9 |
PLO leaders and Israel agreed to recognize each other, clearing the way for a peace accord. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Sep 13 |
In a historic scene at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy. It gave Arafat control of most of the Gaza Strip and 27% of the West Bank. In 2002 Neal Kozodoy edited ""The Mideast Peace Process: An Autopsy." Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, DC
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1993 Sep 14 |
Israel and Jordan signed a framework for negotiations, a day after the signing of a PLO-Israeli peace accord. Links: Israel, Jordan
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1993 Sep 23 |
The Israeli parliament ratified the Israel-PLO accord. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Sep 24 |
The 1st Israeli was killed by Islamics after PLO signed the peace accord. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Oct 6 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat held their first official meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to begin work on realizing terms of the Israeli-PLO accord. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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1993 Oct 11 |
Yasser Arafat won endorsement for his peace accord with Israel from the Palestine Central Council. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Nov 15 |
The US State Department announced that Secretary Warren M. Christopher would travel to the Mideast to try to mediate differences between Israel and the PLO. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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1993 Nov 25 |
Violence broke out in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli undercover soldiers killed Imad Akel, the head of the military wing of Hamas. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Dec 5 |
A Palestinian boarded a bus and opened fire with an assault rifle in the first major attack in Israel since the signing of a peace pact with the PLO; the gunman killed a reservist before being gunned down. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1993 Dec 19 |
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and senior PLO officials ended two days of closed-door talks in Oslo, Norway, in which they sought to break a deadlock over Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories. Links: Israel, Palestine, Norway
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1993 Dec 30 |
Israel and the Vatican agreed to recognize one another. Pope John Paul II normalized relations between the Vatican and Israel. Links: Vatican, Israel
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1993 Dec |
Wars were in Serbia, Algeria, S. Africa, Morocco, Haiti, Israel, and elsewhere. Links: Algeria, Haiti, Serbia, South Africa, Israel, Morocco
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1993 |
Abdel Wahab al Miseri, author of an encyclopedia on Zionism, authored "Secret Societies of the World: the Protocols, Masonism, and Bahaism," in which he debunked "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Links: Israel, Books, Religion
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1993 |
In Israel Benjamin Netanyahu won the leadership of the Likud party. He appointed his aid, Avigdor Lieberman, to manage Likud. Links: Israel
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1993 |
In Israel Yoram Skolnick fired 9 bullets and killed a captured and bound Arab militant, Moussa Abu Sabha (21), who had been caught stabbing a Jewish settler. Skolnick was sentenced to life in prison but was released in 2001. Links: Israel
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1993 |
Erel Margalit (32) founded Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), an Israeli venture capital firm. Links: Israel
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1993 |
Tel Aviv began hosting an annual gay pride parade. Links: Israel, Gays
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1994 Jan 10 |
Talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed in Taba, Egypt. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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1994 Jan 16 |
President Clinton held marathon talks in Geneva with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who offered Israel "normal, peaceful relations" in exchange for land. Links: USA, Switzerland, Israel, Syria, ClintonB
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1994 Feb 9 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initialed an agreement on security measures that had been blocking a peace accord. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Feb 25 |
In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and killed 29 people. Some 100 others were wounded. Surviving Palestinians killed him before he could reload. Links: Israel, Palestine, Murder
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1994 Mar 13 |
The Israeli Cabinet outlawed two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives, branding them terrorist organizations. Links: Israel
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1994 Mar 18 |
The U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned the Hebron mosque massacre. Links: UN, Israel
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1994 Mar 31 |
The PLO and Israel agreed to resume talks on Palestinian autonomy, more than a month after the Hebron mosque massacre. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Apr 6 |
A car rigged with explosives detonated next to a bus in Afula, Israel. 8 Israelis were killed and 45 wounded in Hamas's 1st car bombing. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Apr 13 |
A Palestinian blew himself up on a bus in Hadera in central Israel. Six Israelis were killed and 25 wounded. Hamas took responsibility. Islamic militants bombed an Israeli bus, killing six people and wounding 28. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1994 Apr 20 |
Israeli and PLO negotiators wrapped up an agreement transferring civilian government powers to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Apr 29 |
Israel and the PLO signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 May 1 |
Israeli and PLO delegates opened a final round of talks in Cairo, Egypt, on Palestinian autonomy prior to the signing of an agreement on self-rule. Links: Israel, Palestine
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