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In 1908 the World Zionist Organization set up the Palestine Bureau (also known as the "Eretz Israel Office") in Jaffa and began to adopt a systematic Jewish settlement policy. [185] In 1909 residents of Jaffa bought land outside the city walls and built the first entirely Hebrew-speaking town, Ahuzat Bayit (later renamed Tel Aviv ).
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. This history unfolds within the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
Timeline of Israel history List of years in Israel This is a timeline of modern Israeli history , comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Israel and its predecessor entities from 1882 onward, along with important events in Jewish history and the history of Zionism from that year on.
1973: Yom Kippur War: A coalition of Arab states surprise attacks Israel in an attempt to regain the territories they lost in the Six-Day War. 1979: Egypt–Israel peace treaty which leads to Israel's complete withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. 1993: Oslo accords, Palestinian Authority is created. 1994: Israel–Jordan peace treaty.
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
This is a timeline of major events in the history of Jerusalem; a city that had been fought over sixteen times in its history. [1] During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
The Gaza Strip, a mere 25 miles long and six miles wide, located on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Israel and home to approximately two million Palestinians, holds a prominent place in ...