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2000 May 22 |
In Israel the Supreme Court ruled that women may read out load from the Torah and wear a prayer shawl at the Western Wall. In 2003 the Supreme Court rejected the rule. Links: Israel 
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2000 May 22 |
Israel’s 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon crumbled as Islamic guerrillas and civilians laid claim to disputed lands. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 May 23 |
The South Lebanon Army abandoned its positions and Israel’s 22-year occupation of its "security zone" ended. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 May 24 |
Israeli troops pulled out unilaterally from south Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 May 28 |
In Israel Pres. Weizman announced that he would resign July 10 due to past financial misdealings. Links: Israel
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2000 May 28 |
In southern Lebanon 2 children were killed and 7 people were injured when their car drove over a land mine. In Rmeiche a Hezbollah fighter killed a Christian man. At Kafr Kila Israeli soldiers fired on Lebanese and Palestinian civilians throwing stones across the border. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Land Mines
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2000 Jun 16 |
The Israeli pullout from Lebanon was finished according to UN Sec.-Gen. Kofi Annan. Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss claimed that some Israeli outposts were still present inside their border. Links: UN, Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Jun 24 |
Israeli police fired across the Lebanese border at the Fatima gate at Kfar Kila. 3 Jordanian civilians were wounded. Links: Israel, Lebanon, Jordan
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2000 Jul 10 |
In Israel Pres. Ezer Weizman resigned following his alleged improper acceptance of $453,000 from Edouard Sarousi, a French textile magnate. Links: Israel, Govm’t Scandal
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2000 Jul 11 |
A Middle East summit hosted by President Clinton opened at Camp David between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Jul 12 |
Israel cancelled plans to sell an AWACS-equipped plane to China. Links: China, Israel
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2000 Jul 19 |
President Clinton shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Jul 20 |
The Mideast summit, resurrected only hours after its reported demise, moved forward with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stepping in for President Clinton, who had left for an economic summit in Japan. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB, Summit
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2000 Jul 23 |
President Clinton rejoined the troubled Middle East talks at Camp David after hurrying back from a four-day trip to Asia. Links: China, Israel, Palestine, Labor
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2000 Jul 24 |
President Clinton continued to mediate the Camp David Mideast summit, meeting with Israeli, Palestinian and US negotiators. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Jul 25 |
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended at Camp David with no success due to the difficulty over the issue of Jerusalem. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Jul 28 |
Pres. Clinton warned Yasser Arafat that relations with the US would be harmed if statehood was declared without a peace deal with Israel. Links: USA, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Jul 31 |
In Israel Moshe Katsav of the opposition Likud Party was elected president over Shimon Peres. Prime Minister Barak survived an attempt to oust his government. Links: Israel
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2000 Aug 5 |
UN peacekeeping troops began spreading out along the border between Israel and Lebanon. Links: UN, Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Aug 15 |
In Israel 4 prostitutes died in Tel Aviv when a brothel was set on fire. Police suspected a serial arsonist. Links: Israel, Fire
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2000 Aug 26 |
In Israel 3 Israeli soldiers were killed in a West Bank shootout with Palestinian militants of Hamas. The Israeli raid was an attempt to capture Mahmoud Abu Hanoud near Nablus. Hanoud was wounded and escaped. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Aug 28 |
In Israel Prime Minister Barak said that he planned to complete a peace deal and call for approval by a referendum. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Aug 29 |
President Clinton ended a four-day trip to Africa with a brief visit to Cairo, where he sought the help of President Hosni Mubarak on the Middle East peace process, i.e. a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Links: USA, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Sep 3 |
In Israel Arjey Deri, former leader of the Shas Party, began a 3-year term for bribery and fraud. Links: Israel, Govm’t Scandal, Fraud
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2000 Sep 6 |
Israeli police officers pummeled 3 Palestinian detainees and took pictures of themselves holding their victims by the hair. The officers were later indicted. Links: Israel, Palestine, Hair
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2000 Sep 10 |
The Palestine Central Council in Gaza postponed the Sep 13 deadline for statehood and planned to pursue another round of peace talks. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Sep 17 |
In Israel Prime Minister Barak signed orders to privatize El Al. He had recently pledged public transport on the Sabbath within 2 months and had the cabinet begin the legal process for removing citizens’ religion from identity cards. Links: Israel, Aviation
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2000 Sep 21 |
An Iranian appeals court reduced the prison terms for 10 Jews convicted of "cooperating" with Israel, in a case that had drawn international criticism. Links: Iran, Israel
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2000 Sep 27 |
In Egypt Shereef Fawzi Mohammad el-Falali (35), a civil engineer, was arrested in Heliopolis for providing intelligence information to Israel. Links: Egypt, Israel, Espionage
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2000 Sep 28 |
Ariel Sharon led an armed contingent of supporters to the top of Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of 2 mosques, and incited Arab demonstrations. This marked the beginning of the 2nd Palestinian uprising (Intifada). Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Sep 29 |
Five people were killed in clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police at the Temple Mount. It was the 2nd day of clashes following a visit to the site by Ariel Sharon. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Sep 30 |
Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces across the West Bank and Gaza for a 3rd day and 12 Palestinians were killed with over 500 injured. Mohammed Jamal Aldura (12) was among the dead and French TV showed him clinging to his father as they were caught in gunfire. The Israeli Army later said that Palestinian gunfire may have killed the boy. Links: Israel, Palestine, Tragedy
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2000 Oct 2 |
Israeli troops fired on protesting Arabs. 19 people were killed in the West Bank and Gaza and another 7 in Arab towns of northern Galilee. The 4 day toll rose to 48 dead and over 1,300 wounded. In 2003 the Or Commission blamed the government of PM Barak for not paying attention to rising discontent among Israel’s Arabs. In 2005 Israeli authorities, citing lack of evidence, said they would not file charges against any police officers for the killings of 13 Ar-abs during the October, 2000, riots. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 3 |
A cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians quickly crumbled and the death toll climbed to at least 54. Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat planned to meet in Paris to seek an end to the conflict. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 4 |
In Israel Barak agreed to withdraw heavy arms from the West Bank and Gaza in a bid to halt violence. Amid fresh bloodshed in the West Bank and Gaza, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat together for talks in Paris. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 5 |
Israeli tanks pulled back from forward positions and Palestinian security forces cleared stone throwers from the streets in the 1st steps of a US-brokered cease-fire. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 6 |
Israel pulled troops from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in an effort to ease tensions. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 7 |
Three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped on the Lebanon border. Un peacekeepers made a film 18 hours later that showed Hezbollah guerrillas, the vehicles used and other evidence of the abduction. Links: Israel, Lebanon
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2000 Oct 7 |
Palestinians tore up Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus and Hezbollah guerrillas captured 3 Israeli soldiers. Prime Minister Ehud Barak threatened to use force and to halt the peace process unless the violence stopped. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 9 |
Israel backed from a deadline against the Palestinians to stop violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 12 |
A mob of Palestinians beat at least 2 Israeli reserve soldiers to death. Israeli helicopters fired missiles at targets in Gaza in retaliation. Two reservist soldiers, Cpl. Vadim Norjitz (33) and Yossi Avrahami (38) were on their way to their army base in the West Bank in October 2000 but took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. Israel later arrested at least four suspects in the killing. In 2007 a 5th suspect, Ayman Zaban, was caught in an upscale neighborhood of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 15 |
President Clinton left Washington for emergency talks in Egypt with Israeli and Arab leaders. Links: USA, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, ClintonB
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2000 Oct 15 |
The Palestinian Hezbollah seized an Israeli colonel, Elchanan Tennenbaum, in Switzerland. Links: Switzerland, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 16 |
President Clinton launched a fresh effort to try to cool Middle East tensions at an emergency summit in Egypt that included Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as well as the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Links: USA, UN, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, ClintonB
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2000 Oct 16 |
A Middle East summit was planned to begin at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Violent demonstrations continued in the West Bank and Gaza and 2 Palestinians were killed. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 16 |
Israel announced the kidnapping by Hizbullah of Elchanan Tannenbaum (b.1946), a colonel in Israel’s reserves. He was kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Lebanon. Tannenbaum was released in January 2004 as part of a prisoner swap with Hezbollah. The swap exchanged 435 prisoners held by Israel in return for Tannenbaum's release and the return of the bodies of 3 soldiers killed during an ambush along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Links: Israel, Lebanon, Dubai
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2000 Oct 17 |
Ending an emergency summit in Egypt, Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to publicly urge an end to a burst of bloody conflict and to consult within two weeks on restarting the ravaged Mideast peace process. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 18 |
In Israel undercover agents captured as many as 8 Palestinians believed to have taken part in the lynching death of 2 Israeli soldiers. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 19 |
Israeli soldiers fought with Palestinian militiamen in the West Bank and 2 people were killed with 18 wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 20 |
Israeli troops killed at least 9 Palestinians and wounded dozens in numerous West Bank clashes. The Israeli-Palestinian truce brokered by President Clinton collapsed in a hail of gunfire, with Israeli troops killing nine Palestinians and wounding 67. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 21 |
Fifteen Arab leaders met in Cairo for a 2-day summit, their first summit in four years. They condemned Israel for violence and made proposals to deal with Israel. The Libyan delegation walked out, angry over signs the summit would stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel. Links: Libya, Egypt, Israel, Arab, Summit
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2000 Oct 22 |
Arab nations demanded a UN war crimes tribunal for Israelis responsible for Palestinian deaths and formally ended economic cooperation with Israel. Ehud Barak suspended Israeli participation in the peace process. He called for a "timeout" to decide whether negotiations can be salvaged. Arab leaders meeting in Egypt wrapped up a two-day summit on Israeli-Palestinian violence with a declaration that stopped short of an outright call for cutting ties with Israel. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Arab
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2000 Oct 23 |
In Israel Prime Minister Barak opened negotiations with Ariel Sharon and the Likud Party for a broad-based emergency government. Links: Israel
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2000 Oct 26 |
In Israel a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at an Israeli army outpost. 129 people, mostly Palestinians, were reported killed in over four weeks of fighting. Links: Israel, Palestine, Suicide
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2000 Oct 27 |
Palestinians clashed with Israelis in a "Day of Rage" and 4 were killed with 150 people injured. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 28 |
Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops and at least 29 were wounded. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 29 |
Israeli tanks rolled through Gaza to secure free movement for Jewish settlers. 5 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, Nablus and Jenin. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 30 |
Israel fired rockets from helicopter gunships in the West Bank and Gaza as a warning against the use of guerrilla tactics. The death rose to 133 Palestinians and 10 Israelis. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Oct 31 |
In Jerusalem Yasser Arafat called for renewed resistance. At least 4 Palestinians were killed along the eastern Gaza Strip. Links: Israel, Palestine
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2000 Nov 1 |
3 Israelis and 6 Palestinians were killed in West Bank clashes. Links: Israel, Palestine
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