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1999 Nov 23 |
In Nazareth, Israel, a cornerstone for a mosque was laid next to the Basilica of the Annunciation. Shihab el-Din, a 12th-century anti-Crusader cleric, was believed to be buried there. Links: Israel 
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1999 Dec 8 |
Israel and Syria agreed to resume peace negotiations following a visit by Madeleine Albright to Damascus. Links: USA, Israel, Syria
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1999 Dec 13 |
In his first major test on the road to peace with Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak won parliamentary backing for opening negotiations with Damascus. Links: Israel, Syria
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1999 Dec 13 |
Israeli troops killed 2 men in Beit Awa in the West Bank and captured 3 others during a search for Hamas activists. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1999 Dec 15 |
With President Clinton’s close mediation, Syria reopened peace talks with Israel in Washington. Links: USA, Israel, Syria, ClintonB
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1999 Dec 16 |
Israel and Syria ended two days of inconclusive peace talks and scheduled a resumption for Jan 3. Links: Israel, Syria
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1999 Dec 16 |
In Lebanon shelling by the Israeli allied South Lebanon Army his an elementary school and 20 children were wounded. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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1999 Dec 29 |
Israel released 26 Palestinian security prisoners as part of the interim peace accord. It was the first time Israel had released Palestinians who had killed Israelis or tourists. Links: Israel, Palestine
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1999 Dec 31 |
In Iran Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the destruction of Israel during demonstrations for "Al-Quds Day." Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Links: Iran, Israel
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1999 |
Abu Daoud first acknowledged having a role in the 1972 Munich operation in the book: "Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich." Links: Germany, Israel, Palestine, Olympics, Books
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1999 |
In Israel Boaz Wachtel (40) established the Green Leaf Party. The party did not promote drug use, only its decriminalization, like in the Netherlands. Links: Israel
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1999 |
Scientists announced that Y-chromosome tests had turned up a genetic link between southern Africa’s Lemba tribe (Zimbabwe) and the Jewish Cohanim, a priestly clan going back to biblical times. Links: Israel, Jews, Zimbabwe, DNA
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1999 |
Yair Klein, a former lieutenant colonel in the Israeli army, began a prison term in Sierra Leone. He spent 16 months in prison on charges that he was smuggling arms to rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). Klein, through his private mercenary company, Spearhead Ltd., had provided arms and training to armed forces in South America, Lebanon, and Sierra Leone. Links: Colombia, Sierra Leone, Israel
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2000 Jan 3 |
Pres. Clinton opened peace talks between Syria and Israel in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Links: USA, Israel, Syria, West Virginia, ClintonB
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2000 Jan 4 |
Israel and Palestine agreed on an Israeli troop pullback and the transfer of an additional 5% of West Bank land. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Jan 9 |
Pres. Clinton had dinner with Israeli PM Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. It was the 1st time in half a century that the Israeli and Syrian leaders had shared a meal but no agreement on peace talks was expected. Links: USA, Israel, Syria, ClintonB
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2000 Jan 10 |
Peace talks between Israel and Syria recessed in West Virginia without agree-ment on new borders or any other major elements of a land-for-peace treaty. Links: Israel, Syria, West Virginia
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2000 Jan 14 |
In Israel Lafi al-Rajabi (20), a Palestinian, died while under Israeli detention near Ariel. His body bore wounds, cuts and bruises. He had been arrested 7 months earlier for ties to criminal defendants and not carrying an ID card. An Israeli official said Lafi hanged himself and dismissed claims that he was abused. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Jan 17 |
The Clinton administration announced that talks between Israel and Syria had been postponed indefinitely. Links: USA, Israel, Syria, ClintonB
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2000 Jan 20 |
In Israel the attorney general called for a criminal investigation into possible tax evasion by Pres. Ezer Weizman. Weizman was reported to have accepted $453,465 from Edouard Saroussi, a French executive, from 1988 to 1993. Links: Israel, Govm’t Scandal
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2000 Jan 30 |
In Lebanon Col. Akl Hashem, 2nd in command of the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army, was killed in a Hezbollah bomb at his home attack in Dibel village. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Jan 31 |
In southern Lebanon a Hezbollah rocket attack killed 3 Israeli soldiers. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 2 |
In Israel an Israeli Arab legislator, Issam Mahoul, announced that the country possessed up to 300 nuclear warheads and that 3 new German-made submarines would be fitted with nuclear weapons. Links: Israel, Nuclear, Submarine
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2000 Feb 2 |
In southern Lebanon a roadside bomb killed one man and injured 2 Israeli militiamen. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 4 |
In southern Lebanon Israeli forces attacked targets for the 7th straight day. A guerrilla commander and 7 civilians were killed. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 6 |
In southern Lebanon a roadside bomb and attack killed one Israeli soldier and injured 7 others. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 7 |
Israeli jets launched air attacks deep into Lebanon. Power was knocked out at Baalbek, headquarters of the Hezbollah, and at Beirut and Tripoli. 18 civilians were injured. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 8 |
In Lebanon Hezbollah guerrillas killed another Israeli soldier and Israeli war-planes retaliated with attacks on Tyre and Iqlim al-Tuffah. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 9 |
Israeli jets struck targets in southern Lebanon for the 11th day and Foreign Minister David Levy threatened that it would set Lebanon on fire if militants retaliated with rockets. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 10 |
Israeli jets fired 20 missiles in 8 raids in the Zillaya Valley following Hezbollah attacks on Israeli troops and militia. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 11 |
In Lebanon Hezbollah launched another rocket attack that killed an Israeli soldier. Israel responded with warplanes and attacks in southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley to which Hezbollah responded with fresh hits. Israel cancelled an urgent US-led meeting called to diffuse the widening war. Links: USA, Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Feb 16 |
In Israel German Pres. Johannes Rau spoke before the parliament and gave an apology for WW II Nazi genocide. Links: Germany, Israel, Nazi
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2000 Feb 29 |
Israel released the 1961 prison memoir of Adolph Eichmann. Links: Israel, Nazi
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2000 Mar 2 |
In Israel commandos killed as many as 3-4 Palestinian Hamas militants at Taibeh. They said that 4 simultaneous bombings were scheduled in crowded areas of major cities. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Mar 5 |
In Israel the government voted to back Prime Minister Barak's plan to withdraw troops from southern Lebanon by July. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Mar 8 |
In Israel the supreme court ruled that the government may no longer allocate land based on religion or ethnicity and may no longer prevent Arab citizens from living where they choose. Links: Israel
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2000 Mar 15 |
In Israel the security cabinet approved a troop pullout from 6.1% of the West Bank as Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli positions in southern Lebanon and northern Israel. The areas to be ceded included several Palestinian villages and towns near Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Mar 21 |
Israel withdrew from 6.1% of the West Bank. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Mar 21 |
Pope John Paul II landed in Tel Aviv and began his official visit to Israel with a welcome from Pres. Ezer Weizman. It was the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel. Links: Vatican, Israel
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2000 Mar 23 |
Pope John Paul II paid his respects at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial. Links: Vatican, Israel
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2000 Mar 24 |
In Israel Pope John Paul II delivered a sermon from the Mount of Beatitudes before some 100,000 people. Links: Vatican, Israel
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2000 Mar 25 |
In Israel Pope John Paul II said Mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, where Catholics believe that archangel Gabriel told Mary that she would bear the son of God. Links: Vatican, Israel
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2000 Mar 26 |
Pres Clinton met with Pres. Assad of Syria in Geneva but failed to get an agreement to revive peace talks with Israel. Links: USA, Switzerland, Israel, Syria, ClintonB
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2000 Mar 26 |
Pope John Paul II ended his Holy Land tour with a message of contrition at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a visit to Al Aqsa Mosque and a Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the traditional site for the resurrection of Jesus. Links: Vatican, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Apr 3 |
US defense chief Cohen said that the US would join an int’l. force in south Lebanon when Israel pulls out. Links: USA, Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Apr 11 |
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with President Clinton at the White House in what a senior US official described as a good, productive, serious discussion. Links: USA, Israel, ClintonB
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2000 Apr 12 |
In Israel the Supreme Court ruled that the detention of Lebanese men for more than a decade was illegal. A release was scheduled for 13 men on Apr 17. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Apr 12 |
China’s Pres. Jiang Zemin arrived in Israel to support commercial defense rela-tions between the two countries. Links: China, Israel
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2000 Apr 19 |
In Israel 13 Lebanese prisoners, held as bargaining chips for an Israeli airman, were released. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Apr 28 |
In southern Lebanon guerrillas attacked the Aramta outpost with a car bomb and killed 3-4 Israeli-allied militiamen. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 May 1 |
In Iran Hamid Tefileen, one of 13 Jewish men arrested for espionage, was displayed on TV and admitted to being paid $500 a month by Israeli intelligence, Mossad. Links: Iran, Israel, Espionage
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2000 May 2 |
In Israel the Day of the Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was observed. The date was fixed by Israel to commemorate the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising of 1943. Links: Israel, Jews
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2000 May 3 |
In Iran 2 more Iranian Jews admitted, while on trial, that they had spied for Israel. Links: Iran, Israel, Espionage
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2000 May 4 |
It was reported that Israel planned to deploy a laser shield named THEL, Tactical High Energy Laser (TRW Inc.), to shoot down rockets fired by guerrillas following its withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Links: Israel, Technology, Lebanon
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2000 May 4 |
Lebanese guerrillas fired some 20 Katyusha rockets into Kiryat Shemona, a town in northern Israel. One Israeli soldier was killed and over 24 people were injured. Israel retaliated with heavy air strikes. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 May 5 |
Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon agreed to a cease-fire. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 May 8 |
In Iran 2 more Iranian Jews confessed to spying for Israel. Links: Iran, Israel, Espionage
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2000 May 15 |
Palestinian police and Israeli soldiers fought gun battles across the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 4 people were killed and hundreds were wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 May 16 |
Palestinian demonstrators continued to fight Israeli forces for a 5th day but Palestinian authorities appeared to contain most of the violence. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 May 20 |
Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian targets in Lebanon and destroyed 10 tanks. Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian demonstrators for the 9th day in Palestinian territories within Israel. Links: Israel, Palestine
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