Founding of Israel Zionism The Balfour Declaration: 1917 The British Mandate United Nations Partition Plan: 1947 Founding of the State of Israel:1948 Nakba Israel-Arab / Israeli-Palestinian Conflict W [..]

Israel's establishment as an independent, sovereign state was officially declared in Tel-Aviv on Friday May 14, 1948 by Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion, the day the British Mandate over Palestine [..]

Palestinians refer to the event surrounding the establishment of the State of Israel as the Nakba, or catastrophe, and hold Nakba commemorations on May 15, the day of the start of the 1948 War of Inde [..]

The Arab Economic Boycott was initiated in 1946 by the newly formed League of Arab States. The boycott was aimed at preventing the continued growth of the Jewish community in Mandate-era Palestine by [..]

On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an effort to force Israel to surrender the land gained in 1967. The attack was on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.  Caught by [..]

In December 1987, collective Palestinian frustration erupted in the popular uprising against Israeli rule known as the Intifada, or “shaking off.” At first a spontaneous outburst, the Intifada develop [..]

Widespread Palestinian violence erupted on Friday, September 29, 2000 in the Old City of Jerusalem and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grassroots protests and violence soon turned to a campaign o [..]

The security barrier (or fence) is a defensive measure first approved by the Israeli government in 2002 to prevent Palestinian terrorists from reaching their civilian targets inside Israel.  The decis [..]

On December 27, 2008, in response to eight years of barrages of rockets and missiles launched by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Gaza, Israel began a ground military operation.  In light of [..]

In response to intensifying rocket attacks from Gaza, on November 14, 2012 Israel launched an aerial military operation in Gaza, code named Operation Pillar of Defense, targeting Hamas and Islamic Jih [..]