| 01/01/64 | Fatah Day. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded at a meeting in Jerusalem. |
| 01/15/91 | Abu Iyad, the second-ranking PLO leader, and two other high-ranking PLO officials are assassinated by a guard suspected of working for the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). |
| 02/21/70 | Suspected members of the PFLP-GC place a bomb on a Swissair passenger jet enroute from Zurich to Tel Aviv, resulting in the death of all 47 passengers. |
| 03/16/78 | Israeli forces invade Lebanon. |
| 03/21/49 | Palestinian Solidarity Day. Arab solidarity day with the Palestinian people against Israel. |
| 03/26/79 | Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. |
| 04/10/96 | Israel invades Hamas positions and cities within Lebanon after a Hezbollah rocket attack on northern Israel injures 40 people. |
| 04/14/49 | Holocaust Memorial Day. |
| 05/07/48 | Israeli Independence Day, as observed by Arabs in the Occupied Territories. |
| 05/14/48 | The first Arab-Israeli war begins shortly after the State of Israel was proclaimed. |
| 05/15/48 | Israel is proclaimed a state, as the British mandate in Palestine expires. Arab armies launch attacks on Israel immediately following the proclamation. |
| 05/15/91 | Palestinian Struggle Day. |
| 05/17/83 | Israel signs an accord with Lebanon for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from most of south Lebanon. |
| 05/20/90 | A lone Israeli gunman kills eight Arab laborers in Rishon le Ziyyon, south of Tel Aviv. Nine workers are injured. The gunman was identified as a discharged Israeli soldier. |
| 05/30/72 | Members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) kill 26 people in a massacre at Lod Airport. |
| 05/31/67 | Israeli troops capture East Jerusalem in the Six Day War. |
| 06/04/82 | Israeli planes bomb Beirut. |
| 06/05/67 | The Six Day War ends. |
| 06/06/82 | Israel invades Lebanon. |
| 07/04/76 | The Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda freeing 103 hostages from a hijacked Israeli airliner. |
| 07/22/68 | Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked an El Al flight enroute to Tel Aviv and forced it to land in Algiers. The attack marks the first aircraft hijacking by a Palestinian group. The hijackers are said to have believed Israeli General Ariel Sharon was on the flight. The passengers and crew are detained by Algeria for six weeks. |
| 07/28/89 | Israeli commandos seize Shaykh Obeid from a village in southern Lebanon and detain him in Israel on allegations of involvement in terrorist activity on behalf of Hezbollah. |
| 07/30/97 | Fifteen people are killed in two suicide bomb blasts in Jerusalem. |
| 09/06/72 | Palestinian Black September terrorists massacre Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. |
| 09/09/93 | The PLO and Israel sign a mutual recognition agreement. |
| 09/13/94 | Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization sign a peace agreement in Washington, D.C., outlining a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli Occupied Territories. |
| 09/17/78 | Camp David accords signed. |
| 09/23 | Yom Kippur. |
| 10/01/85 | The Israeli Air Force bombs the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Tunis. |
| 10/06/73 | The Yom Kippur War begins. |
| 10/08/90 | Eighteen Arabs died during clashes with police at the Temple Mount religious site. |
| 10/11/94 | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council approves Chairman Yasir Arafat's peace deal with Israel by a vote of 63 to eight, with 11 members abstaining or absent. |
| 11/02/17 | Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which promised a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Demonstrations in the Occupied Territories and the Gaza Strip area have occurred on this date. |
| 11/04/96 | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by right-wing extremist. |
| 12/09/87 | Date used to mark the beginning of the intifada, or uprising on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. |
| 12/16/91 | The United Nations General Assembly repeals the 1975 resolution which said Zionism is a form of racism. |
| 12/17/92 | More than 400 suspected members of Hamas are forcibly expelled from Israel into Lebanon, following the kidnap-murder of an Israeli border policeman. The expellees are refused entry into Lebanon and forced to camp in the Israeli-controlled security zone in south Lebanon. |
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