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Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo I Accord in Washington, D.C. The accords provided for the withdrawal of some IDF forces from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and for the establishment of a self-governing authority for the Palestinians, the Palestinian National Authority. 1994: 26 October: Israel and Jordan signed the Israel–Jordan peace treaty ...
The Maccabees founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 168 BCE – 37 BCE, reasserting the Jewish religion and expanding the boundaries of the Land of Israel by conquest. [3] In the post-Maccabean period the high priest was looked upon as exercising in all things, political, legal, and sacerdotal, the supreme authority.
The siege of Toron is abandoned after news of the death of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, reaches the crusaders' camp. [418] June 1. A new truce with Al-Adil. [415] [417] August 15. Pope Innocent III proclaims the Fourth Crusade in the bull Post Miserabile. [420] [421] 1200. February. Al-Adil takes control of Egypt. [414] [421]
28 June: Israel declares Jerusalem unified and announces free access to holy sites of all religions. 1968: Israel starts rebuilding the Jewish Quarter, confiscating 129 dunams (0.129 km 2) of land which had made up the Jewish Quarter before 1948. [89] 6000 residents and 437 shops are evicted. [90]
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.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates sign a peace treaty. [61] 30 April 2021 45 people are killed in the 2021 Meron stampede during Lag BaOmer. [62] 7 October 2023 In the day considered the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust, as well as deadliest day in Israel's history, 1,390 people are killed in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. [63]
Today, approximately 43 percent of the global Jewish population resides in Israel. In 1979, the Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed, based on the Camp David Accords. In 1993, Israel signed the Oslo I Accord with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was followed by the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority.
The prime minister of Israel is the head of government and chief executive of the State of Israel.. Since the adoption of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, 14 people have served as the prime minister of Israel, five of whom have served on two or three non-consecutive occasions.