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1994 May 21 |
Israeli commandos swept into Lebanon’s eastern mountains and abducted Mustafa Dirani, a Shiite Muslim guerrilla leader of the Believer's Resistance. In 2000 Dirani sued Israel with charges of torture and sodomy. Dirani was released in Jan 2004, as part of a complex prisoner exchange between Hezbollah and Israel. Links: Israel, Lebanon 
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1994 Jun 15 |
Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations. Links: Vatican, Israel
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1994 Jun 26 |
An Israeli commission found that a Jewish settler had acted alone when he shot and killed 29 Muslims in a Hebron mosque, rejecting Palestinian claims of a conspiracy. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Jun |
An Israeli helicopter gunship at Ein Darbara, Lebanon, killed at least 30 Hezbollah trainees. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1994 Jul 25 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war. Links: USA, Israel, Jordan
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1994 Jul 26 1994 Jul 27 |
A car bomb heavily damaged the Israeli embassy in London, injuring 14; hours later, a second bomb exploded outside a building housing Jewish organizations in north London. Links: Britain, Israel
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1994 Aug 8 |
Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two once warring countries. Links: Israel, Jordan
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1994 Aug 24 |
Israeli and PLO negotiators agreed on an accord to give the Palestinians control of health care, taxation, education and other services in West Bank areas still controlled by Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Sep 1 |
Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations with Israel. Links: Israel, Morocco
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1994 Oct 9 |
Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman (19) was kidnapped in Lod by 4 members of Hamas. Hamas demanded the release of a jailed Hamas leader and 200 other fundamentalist prisoners by Oct 14. Links: Israel
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1994 Oct 14 |
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. Links: Nobel Prize, Israel, Palestine
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1994 Oct 14 |
Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman, kidnapped on Oct 9, was killed when Israeli commandos raided the hideout of Islamic militants in Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier and 3 kidnappers were also killed in the ensuing firefight. In 2006 his family files suit against Iran for providing training and support to Hamas. In 2009 a US judge awarded a $25 million settlement to the family. Links: USA, Iran, Israel, Palestine
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1994 Oct 17 |
Leaders of Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty. Links: Israel, Jordan
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1994 Oct 19 |
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis and wounded 48 in a bus explosion in the heart of Tel Aviv's shopping district. Hamas took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1994 Oct 26 |
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty during an extravagant ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Clinton. Links: USA, Israel, Jordan, ClintonB
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1994 Dec 10 |
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East. Links: Nobel Prize, Israel, Palestine
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1994 Dec 25 |
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem and wounded 12 Israelis. Hamas took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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Israel established the elite squad, Egoz (walnut in Hebrew), to track Shiite guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1995 Jan 22 |
Two Palestinians blew themselves up at Beit Lid junction in central Israel and killed 21 Israelis. Dozens of others were injured and the Islamic Jihad took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1995 Feb 2 |
The leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians held an unprecedented summit in Cairo to try to revive the Mideast peace process. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan
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1995 Mar 19 |
Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Jewish settlers, killing two people. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Apr 9 |
Two Palestinians blew themselves up outside two Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and killed seven Israeli soldiers and an American, Alisa Flatow (20). The Islamic Jihad and Hamas took responsibility. In 1998 a US district court judge ordered the government of Iran to pay $247 million in damages to the family of Flatow. Links: USA, Iran, Israel, Palestine
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1995 Jul 24 |
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a crowded commuter bus in Tel Aviv and killed six Israelis and wounded 28. Hamas took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1995 Aug 21 |
A Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem and killed 4 Israelis, 1 American, and wounded more than 100 people. Hamas took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Sep 24 |
Israel’s Rabin and the PLO under Arafat, signed a pact, Oslo II, in Taba, Egypt, ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. They scheduled a 9/7/97 date for Israel’s departure from the West Bank, except for Jewish settlements and certain military locations. A final accord was scheduled for 5/7/99. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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1995 Sep 28 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Sep |
In Israel Adel Kaadan, an Arab with Israeli citizenship, filed suit when he was not allowed to move into a Jewish cooperative at Katsir. Links: Israel, Arab
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1995 Oct 10 |
Israel began a West Bank pullback and freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Oct 15 |
Six Israeli soldiers were killed in Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon in an ambush blamed on the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah. Links: Iran, Israel, Lebanon
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1995 Oct 26 |
Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shakaki was shot to death on the Mediterranean island of Malta in a killing his supporters blamed on Israel. Links: Malta, Israel, Palestine, Islam
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1995 Oct 29 |
Palestinians burned American and Israeli flags and swore revenge for the assassination of Dr. Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the radical Islamic Jihad and a top architect of terror attacks against Israel. Shakaki was gunned down three days earlier in Malta, reportedly by Israeli intelligence. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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1995 Nov 4 |
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73 years old, was killed by a right-wing, 27 year old Israeli law student, Yigal Amir, at a Tel Aviv peace rally. Shimon Peres assumed the post of acting Prime Minister. His wife, Leah, published "Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy in 1997." It was later revealed the Amir was working under the influence of Avishai Raviv, an agent of the Shin Bet security service. Links: Israel, Biography
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1995 Nov 5 |
An endless procession of Israelis filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who’d been assassinated the night before. Links: Israel
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1995 Nov 6 |
Funeral services were held in Jerusalem for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. President Clinton led the US delegation; Arab dignitaries also attended, including Jordan’s King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Links: USA, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, ClintonB
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1995 Nov 9 |
Yasser Arafat made a secret trip to Israel to offer condolences to the widow of assassinated PM Rabin. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Nov 12 |
Israel’s ruling Labor Party unanimously approved Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Links: Israel
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1995 Nov 21 |
Israel granted citizenship to jailed US spy Jonathan Jay Pollard. Links: USA, Israel, Espionage
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1995 Nov 30 |
Israeli soldiers fired on hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinians in the West Bank district of Nablus. In another incident 2 Israeli soldiers were wounded near the town of Jenin. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Nov |
Lebanese guerrillas of the Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. Israeli warplanes retaliated by hitting rebel strongholds. Hezbollah or Party of God is the Iranian-backed political and military group that is fighting to dislodge Israeli soldiers from southern Lebanon. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1995 Dec 19 |
Yigal Amir, the confessed assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, went on trial. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Dec 21 |
The city of Bethlehem passed from Israeli to Palestinian control. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 Dec 26 |
Israel turned dozens of West Bank villages over to the Palestinian Authority in a smooth transfer of power. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1995 |
Binjamin Wilkomirski published in Switzerland the memoir "Fragments," which purported to be about his survival at the Majdanek concentration camp. In 2002 Blake Eskin authored "A Life in Pieces" that told the story of how Bruno Doessekker (b.1941) fabricated the story. Links: Israel, Writer, Jews, Holocaust
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VocalTec, an Israeli company, was the first company to release commercial PC-to-PC calling software, which it called Internet Phone. However, many competitors soon followed. In 2010 VocalTec merged with YMax Corp, maker of magicJack, an Internet phone gadget. Links: Israel, Technology, Computer, Internet
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1995 |
Miriam Ben-Porat, Israeli comptroller, issued a report that said Shin Bet security routinely mistreated Palestinian detainees between 1988 and 1992. The report was not made public until 2000. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1996 Jan 6 |
In Gaza Yehiyeh Ayyash, a Hamas bomb-maker known as "the engineer" was assassinated by an explosives-rigged cellular phone. The operation was attributed to Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1996 Feb 2 |
The leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians held an unprecedented summit in Cairo to try to revive the Mideast peace process. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan
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1996 Feb 25 |
In separate attacks 2 Palestinian suicide bombers blew up a bus in Jerusalem and a soldiers hitchhiking post in the coastal city of Ashkelon. 23 Israelis were killed, as well as 2 Americans and a Palestinian. More than 80 people were wounded. Hamas took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1996 Feb 26 |
In Israel an Arab American drove a rental car into a Jerusalem bus stop and killed one Israeli while wounded 23. The driver appeared to be acting on his own but Hamas took responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1996 Feb |
The Gaza Strip, sealed off by Israel for 333 days due to Palestinian attacks, was re-opened. The closure drove up adult unemployment and forced many children to seek work. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1996 Feb |
A military cooperation agreement was signed between Israel and Turkey. The agreement allows for joint military training, exchanges between military academies and participation of observers in each other’s exercises. Links: Turkey, Israel
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1996 Mar 3 |
Israel declared all-out war on the militant group Hamas after a bus bomb in Jerusalem killed 19 people, including the bomber, the third such suicide attack in eight days. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1996 Mar 4 |
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Tel Aviv shopping center, killing 13 people in the fourth deadly attack in nine days. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1996 Mar 10 |
Hezbollah guerrillas launched a wave of bomb and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1996 Mar 13 |
World leaders, including President Clinton, held a summit in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, where they vowed unequivocal support for the Mideast peace process. Links: USA, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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1996 Mar 14 |
During a visit to Israel, President Clinton pledged $100 million to the fight against terrorism. Links: USA, Israel, ClintonB
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1996 Mar 21 |
In Israel a suicide bomber killed himself and 3 Israeli women in Tel Aviv. Links: Israel, Suicide
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1996 Mar 27 |
An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison. Links: Israel, Assassin
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1996 Mar 30 |
Hezbollah guerillas fired 30 Katyusha rockets across the Lebanon border into northern Israel. Israel responded by shelling 15 Shiite Muslim villages. Israel contended that responsibility for the attacks lies with Lebanon and Syria, which occupies Lebanon with 35,000 troops and exercises dominion over government decisions. Links: Israel, Syria, Lebanon
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1996 Apr 11 |
Israeli aircraft attacked a Hezbollah command center in Beirut in retaliation for recent rocket attacks on northern Israel. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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