On July 20, 1949, the Syrian-Israeli Armistice was signed. Syria was the last of the Arab countries that had attacked the newly established State of Israel to sign an armistice agreement.
It took Israeli commandos minutes to conduct one of the greatest and most daring rescue missions in modern history in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976, after an Air France flight was hijacked by terrorists and a group of Jewish passengers was taken hostage.
On June 21, 1936, approximately 60 armed Arabs in British Mandate Palestine attacked a convoy of Jewish-owned buses traveling from Haifa to Tel Aviv. The modern State of Israel had not yet come into existence, so what were the Arabs fighting against?
The Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq was a pogrom, or "violent dispossession" carried out against the Jewish community on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1 and 2, 1941.
On May 16, 1916, Britain and France divided the former Ottoman Empire territory in the Middle East , including the Land of Israel, which came under British rule.
On April 4, 1920, before the establishment of the State of Israel and before any so-called "occupation," a Muslim festival attended by tens of thousands of Arabs erupted into violence against Jews in Jerusalem.
On March 18, 1975, the US undertook a “reassessment” of its relationship with Israel, creating enormous tension between the executive branch and the Israeli government.
On March 6, 1948, Truman Adviser Clark Clifford Opposed the State Department on Partition, calling to divide Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.
On March 3, 1939, the powerful Mufti of Jerusalem rejected the creation of a majority Palestinian-Arab state in the Land of Israel, staunchly opposing any Jewish presence whatsoever.
On February 22, 1948, Palestinian Arab terrorists, with the help of British deserters, bombed Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. It was the first of many that would occur over the years in that location.
On February 13, 1931, the Passfield White Paper, which threatened the development of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, was rejected by the British cabinet.
On January 26, 1919, British Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, who later became the first president of the State of Israel, warned that unless world Jewry secures a place of their own, they will be faced by a terrible catastrophe.
On January 23, 1950, the Israeli Parliament declared Jerusalem – the eternal capital of the Jewish People – to be the capital of the modern Jewish state.
Holding on to the strategic Golan Heights was even more imperative than Israelis had realized at the time, considering the Syrian civil war and the regional instability.
On January 3, 1919, Emir Faisal, son of Sharif Husayn of Mecca, and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, an accord of mutual respect and cooperation.
On January 1, 1837, the city of Safed in the Upper Galilee suffered a devastating earthquake that killed thousands of people and caused almost total destruction.
On Dec. 24, 1969, Israeli commandos smuggled five missile boats out of Cherbourg. Israel had paid for the boats, which weren't delivered due to a French arms embargo.
On December 11, 1947, Arthur Creech Jones, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, announced at the House of Commons that the Mandate in Palestine would end on May 15, 1948.
Exactly 68 years ago, the UN approved the partition of the Land of Israel, then Mandatory Palestine under British rule, into two states - one Jewish and one Arab.
Shortly after Israel's stunning Six Day War victory, UN Resolution 242 was unanimously adopted as the basis for a Middle East peace treaty based on land for peace.
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was the first Arab leader to visit the State of Israel. His brave initiative eventually led to the peace treaty signed between the two countries.
On Nov. 2, 1917, Lord Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, affirming British support for the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.
On Sept. 28, 1995, the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement was signed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat at a White House ceremony.
According to several historical sources, the ancient Jewish community in Yemen preceded the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the year 586 BCE.
At a meeting in Washington that year, Olmert told Bush that if the US did not destroy the reactor, Israel would, even if it lacked support from the Americans.
The Internet has helped to spread its anti-Jewish doctrine, apparently contributing to the global rise of anti-Semitism and hostility towards the State of Israel.
Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann sends a letter to British Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, citing disappointment with Britain's pro-Arab position, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat invites Israel's foreign minister to a meeting in Austria.
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