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1998 Oct 5 |
In south Lebanon pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas killed 2 Israeli soldiers with a roadside bomb. Links: Israel, Lebanon 
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1998 Oct 7 |
In Israel at the Gaza border Arafat and Netanyahu met with US Sec. Albright and agreed to an Oct 15 summit meeting with Pres. Clinton. Links: USA, Israel
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1998 Oct 8 |
In Israel one man was killed during a clash in Hebron where Palestinians observed a general strike against Israel’s 8-day blockade of the town. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 9 |
In Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu appointed Ariel Sharon (70) as foreign minister. Links: Israel
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1998 Oct 13 |
In the West Bank an Israeli man, Itamar Doron (24) was killed and another wounded by suspected terrorists. The slaying prompted Prime Minister Netanyahu to declare that there was no chance of signing a new peace deal with the Palestinians. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 14 |
The UN for a 7th year called for an end to the US economic embargo against Cuba. Only the US and Israel cast negative votes. Links: USA, UN, Israel, Cuba
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1998 Oct 15 |
Pres. Clinton opened the Mideast summit talks in Maryland between Arafat and Netanyahu in Washington that resulted in the Wye River land-for-peace agreement.. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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1998 Oct 19 |
In Israel an assailant threw 2 hand grenades into the central bus station of Beersheba and injured at least 30 people. 67 people were wounded and the incident cast a pall over the peace negotiations in Washington. A Palestinian from the West Bank, Salem Rajab al-Sarsour (29), was caught and confessed. Israel suspended negotiations with the Palestinians on issues other than security after a bloody attack at an Israeli bus stop. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 20 |
King Hussein of Jordan, at the invitation of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, joined Pres. Clinton to press for the Israeli-Palestinian compromise in Maryland. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, Maryland, Jordan, ClintonB
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1998 Oct 23 |
An American brokered peace deal was reached at the Wye Plantation in Maryland between Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli and Palestinian extremists denounced the deal. Land for the Palestinians was exchanged for security guarantees to the Israelis backed by the American CIA. Pres. Clinton agreed to release Jonathan Pollard, who was jailed 11 years ago on charges of spying for Israel. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, Maryland
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1998 Oct 25 |
In Israel West Bank settlers formally broke ties with Prime Minister Netanyahu over the new peace accord. In Ramallah Wasim Tarifi (17) was killed during a Fatah youth protest. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 26 |
In Israel 2 Palestinian gunmen killed Danny Vargas (28) in Hebron. In retaliation a 69-year-old Palestinian man was killed outside the Jewish settlement of Itamar. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 27 |
Palestinian security forces arrested 2 gunmen in the West Bank who reportedly confessed to the killing of Danny Vargas as well as the murder of another Israeli on Oct 13. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 28 |
In Israel a bomb aimed at a busload of school children exploded in the Gaza Strip and 2 people were killed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Oct 29 |
Palestinian authorities arrested the leader of Hamas, Sheik Yassin, following a suicide bombing aimed at a busload of Jewish settler children. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1998 Oct 31 |
The US and Israel signed a strategic cooperation agreement to protect the Jewish state from ballistic missiles. Links: USA, Israel
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1998 Nov 2 |
Israel and Palestine agreed to delay their interim peace agreement to allow approval by the Israeli cabinet and parliament. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 4 |
Israel announced that the security issue for the new peace agreement was resolved. They demanded the arrest of 30 Palestinian fugitives suspected of violence. Arafat said that 12 of the 30 were already under arrest. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 6 |
In Jerusalem a car bomb exploded at an outdoor market and 2 suicide bombers people were killed and 23 others injured. The peace accord was immediately put on hold by the Israeli cabinet. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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1998 Nov 11 |
Israel’s government narrowly ratified a land-for-peace agreement with conditions that included alteration of the PLO charter to strike calls for Israel’s destruction. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 12 |
Israel gave the go-ahead to a housing project on a Jerusalem hilltop called Har Homa. The area is known as Jabal Abu Ghneim to the Palestinians and was an area under dispute. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 16 |
In southern Lebanon 3 Israeli soldiers were killed when Hezbollah detonated a road bomb. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 Nov 17 |
Israel's parliament overwhelmingly approved the Wye River land-for-peace accord with the Palestinians with a 75 to 19 vote. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 19 |
In Israel the Cabinet voted 7 to 5 to go ahead with a troop withdrawal from Palestinian land in the West Bank, and to free 250 Palestinian prisoners. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 20 |
Israel ceded control of a 200-sq. mile patchwork area, 2 percent of the West Bank, to the Palestinian Authority in the 1st of 3 withdrawals. 250 prisoners were released but 150 of them were common criminals rather than political detainees. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Nov 20 |
Israel carried out its 100th air raid along with ground attacks in southern Lebanon. One Amal fighter was reported killed. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 Nov 26 |
In southern Lebanon 2 Israeli soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb blew up their armored vehicle. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 Dec 2 |
In the West Bank an Israeli soldier was beaten and an Arab man was stabbed to death in Jerusalem. Israel announced the suspension of further troops withdrawals. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Dec 6 |
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel started a hunger strike and demanded to be freed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Dec 9 |
In Israel the Supreme Court ruled that the exemption for rigorously Orthodox Jewish yeshiva students from army service was illegal. Links: Israel
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1998 Dec 9 |
A Palestinian teenager was killed as Israeli forces and Palestinian protestors clashed. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Dec 10 |
Leaders of the PLO voted to annul passages of their 1964 constitutional charter that called for Israel’s destruction. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Dec 11 |
Israeli troops fired on hundreds of protesting Palestinians killing 2 and wounding dozens. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Dec 13 |
With a grave impeachment threat looming, President Clinton told a news conference in Jerusalem he would not resign, and insisted he did not commit perjury. Links: USA, Israel, ClintonB
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1998 Dec 14 |
In Gaza City Pres. Clinton watched as hundreds of Palestinian leaders raised their hands to renounce a call for the destruction of Israel. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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1998 Dec 15 |
Pres. Clinton met with Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu without achieving any tangible results to move the Peace Talks forward. President Clinton concluded his three-day Middle East journey on a disappointing note as Israel refused to resume the West Bank troop withdrawals called for under the Wye River peace accord; nevertheless, Clinton declared his trip a success. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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1998 Dec 21 |
Israel's parliament voted 81-30 for early elections, signaling the demise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ailing hard-line government. Peace policies were rejected 56-48. Links: Israel
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1998 Dec 22 |
In Lebanon an Israeli rocket killed woman and her 6 children. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 Dec 23 |
In Lebanon Hezbollah guerrillas retaliated against Israel with Katyusha rockets at Kiryat Shemona on Israel's northern border in retaliation for an Israeli air raid a day earlier.. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 Dec 23 |
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat freed Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin from house arrest, a move denounced by Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 Dec 24 |
In Israel Gen'l. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak left the armed forces and said he would help lead new centrist political party against Prime Minister Netanyahu in spring elections. Links: Israel
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1998 Dec 29 |
In Lebanon the Israeli army assassinated Zahi Naim Hadr Ahmed Mahabi, a top Hezbollah explosives expert. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 |
Israel fired a rocket from a helicopter into Lebanon that killed guerrilla leader Hossam al-Amin. Lebanese guerrillas then fired Katyusha rockets into Israel and injured at least 19 civilians. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1998 |
Efraim Halevy became head of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service. Links: Israel, Espionage
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1998 |
The West Bank was populated by about 1.5 million Palestinians and about 150,000 Israelis. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1998 |
Yossi Vardi (b.1942), Israeli entrepreneur, sold Mirabilis Ltd., the creator of the ICQ instant messaging service, to American Online for over $400 million. Links: Israel, Internet, M&A
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1999 Jan 3 |
Israeli warplanes attacked Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon and wounded 6 people including a woman (55) and her 4 daughters. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Jan 3 |
In Israel police detained 8 adults and 6 children belonging to the Concerned Christians sect from Denver, Colo. Police said the group under Monte Kim Miller planned violent acts to hasten the 2nd coming of Christ. 11 of the members were ordered to be deported. Links: Israel, Colorado, Religion
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1999 Jan 6 |
In Israel former military chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak announced his candidacy for prime minister. Separately a man with a toy gun was killed by soldiers. Links: Israel
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1999 Jan 26 |
A Palestinian man was killed by an Israeli rubber bullet when he threw stones to protest the demolition of an Arab-owned home in East Jerusalem. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1999 Feb 14 |
In Israel some 250,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to protest the supreme court's supposed anti-religious judicial "tyranny." Some 50,000 gathered for a counter rally. Links: Israel
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1999 Feb 17 |
In Berlin Israeli security guards shot and killed 3 Kurds who forced their way into the Israeli consulate. The protesters were enraged by reports that Israel aided in the arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. Links: Germany, Israel, Kurds
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1999 Feb 18 |
Israeli troops seized the southern Lebanon village of Arnoun to prevent guerrilla attacks from the Crusader Castle of Beaufort. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Feb 23 |
In Lebanon Hezbollah guerrillas ambushed an Israeli commando squad and killed the commander and 2 officers. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Feb 25 |
In a move that threatened to revive a strain on U.S.-Israeli relations, Israel's Supreme Court blocked the extradition of American teenager Samuel Sheinbein to the United States to face charges stemming from a slaying in Maryland. Links: USA, Israel, Maryland
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1999 Feb 27 |
Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon detonated 2 roadside bombs and killed Israeli Brig. Gen'l. Erez Gerstein, 2 soldiers and a reporter. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Feb 28 |
Israel sent warplanes against guerrilla targets in Lebanon in retaliation for the death of Brig. Gen'l. Erez Gerstein and 3 others. Guerrillas had detonated two bombs beside a military convoy in southern Lebanon, killing a brigadier general and three other Israelis. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Mar 2 |
Israeli leaders made campaign promises to leave Lebanon within a year. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Mar 17 |
In Israel Rabbi Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party of religious Sephardim, was convicted on bribery charges. Links: Israel
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1999 Mar 21 |
Israel's Supreme Court rejected a final effort to have American teenager Samuel Sheinbein returned to the United States to face murder charges. Under a plea agreement with Israeli prosecutors, Sheinbein was later sentenced to 24 years in prison for the murder of Alfred Tello Jr. Links: USA, Israel
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