HELP US BUILD A TIMELINE OF ISRAELI HISTORY!
Come into our Social Hall, and you’ll see our new Israeli History Timeline. It’s “bare” right now! So we need everyone - our congregants, religious school kid and teens – to fill it with projects describing all the great events & people in Israel’s history!
Have fun, get involved and learn about Israel’s remarkable history! Write – and help your child or grandchild write –
- An essay
- A Play, or Poem or Song
- An “I was there….” Or a pretend autobiography of one of Israel’s great figures
- Or draw or find pictures of events or people!
Our kids – and teens – will be reading, or performing or displaying their completed works at our upcoming Family Shabbat Service on October 28th , or our next Friday Night Shabbat Dinner on November 3rd , or both!
Select a topic from below, or pick any topic of interest, and submit it on the form below!
KIDS WILL WIN PRIZES FOR THEIR WORKS!
Submit Your Choice of Timeline Topic
Use the form to submit your topic choice from the list below or create your own topic and time period.
Timeline Topics
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1877 |
Eliezer Ben Yehuda hears Hebrew for the first time and decides to transform ancient Hebrew into a modern-day language to be spoken by all Jews in Palestine |
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1882-1903 |
First Aliya (large-scale immigration), mainly from Russia |
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1896 |
Theodor Herzl publishes the Jewish State |
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1897 |
First Zionist Congress, convened by Theodor Herzl |
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1909 |
First kibbutz – Degania – founded |
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First modern all-Jewish City – Tel Aviv – founded |
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1917 |
Britain begins its rule of Palestine, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule |
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The Balfour Declaration: British Foreign Minister Balfour pledges support for establishment of the “Jewish National Home” in Palestine |
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1920 |
The Haganah – a Jewish Defense organization – is founded |
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1936 – 1939 |
Riots by Arab terrorists against Jews |
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1939 |
Jewish immigration to Palestine severely limited by British White Paper |
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1939 – 1945 |
World War II. The Holocaust in Europe. |
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1947 |
November 29th: The United Nations Partition Plan (proposing the establishment of an Arab and a Jewish State) |
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ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION |
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1948 |
May 14th: End of British Rule |
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May 14th: State of Israel Proclaimed |
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May 14th: David Ben Gurion becomes the first Prime Minister of Israel |
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May 15th: Israel invaded by 5 Arab states |
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The Israel Defense Forces (the IDF) established |
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May 1948 – July 1949 |
ISRAEL’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE |
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1949 |
Israel signs “Armistice Agreements” with Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon |
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Jerusalem divided under Israeli and Jordanian Rule |
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The First Knesset (Parliament) elected |
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Israel admitted to the United Nations as 59th member |
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1948 – 1952 |
Mass immigration to Israel from Europe & Arab countries |
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1956 |
The SINAI CAMPAIGN (WAR) |
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1962 |
Adolph Eichman is tried and executed in Israel for his part in the Holocaust |
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1963 |
Levi Eshkol elected 3rd Prime Minister of Israel |
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1967 |
THE SIX DAY WAR |
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1969 |
Golda Meir elected 4th Prime Minister of Israel |
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1973 |
The YOM KIPPUR WAR |
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1974 |
Yitzhak Rabin elected 5th Prime Minister |
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1977 |
Menachem Begin elected 6th Prime Minister of Israel. The Likud party forms government after Knesset elections, ending 30 years of Labor party rule |
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Visit of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem |
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1978 |
The Camp David Accords are signed: First framework for a comprehensive peace in the Middle East |
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1979 |
The Israel – Egypt Peace Treaty |
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Prime Minister Begin and Anwar Sadat awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
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1981 |
The Israeli air force destroys an Iraqui nuclear reactor before it becomes operational |
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1982 |
Israel’s 3 stage withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula completed |
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The First Lebanon War (Operation Peace for Galilee) removes Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorists from Lebanon |
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1983 |
Yitzhak Shamir elected 7th Prime Minister of Israel |
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1984 |
Operation Moses – first Ethiopian Jewish airlift |
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1987 |
The First Intifada (Arab violence against Israelis) begins (1987 – 1993) |
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1989 |
Start of Mass immigration of Jews from Soviet Union |
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1991 |
Operation Solomon covertly airlifts 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours |
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1992 |
Yitzhak Rabin re-elected Prime Minister of Israel |
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1993 |
The Oslo Accords are signed |
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1994 |
Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Yasser Arafat awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
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1995 |
Yitzhak Rabin assassinated at peace rally |
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1996 |
Operation Grapes of Wrath begins – responding to Hezbollah terrorists’ attacks from Lebanon on Northern Israel |
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Benjamin Netanyahu elected 9th Prime Minister of Israel |
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1999 |
Ehud Barak elected 10th Prime Minister of Israel (left-wing One Israel party) |
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2000 |
Israel withdraws from the security zone in southern Lebanon |
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The Second Intifada |
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2001 |
Ariel Sharon elected 11th Prime Minister of Israel (Likud Party) |
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2002 |
Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield in West Bank in response to massive Palestinian terrorist attacks |
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Israel begins building the anti-terrorist fence / wall to stop West Bank terrorists from killing Israelis |
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2005 |
Israel ends its presence in the Gaza Strip by evacuating 17 Gaza settlements and 4 in West Bank |
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2006 |
After Prime Minister Sharon suffers a stroke, Ehud Olmert becomes the 12th Prime Minister of Israel |
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Israel launches Operation Summer Rains against terrorists in Gaza after kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit |
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The Second War in Lebanon begins, following missile attacks and kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers |
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2007 |
Israel bombs a nuclear reactor in Syria |
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2008 |
Israel launches Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in response to a barrage of over 10,000 rockets and mortars fired from the Gaza strip |
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2010 |
Israel launches a raid on 6 Turkish ships and clashes occur on the MV Mavi Mamara |
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2011 |
Israel gets Gilad Shalit released after 5 years, in exchange for 1,021 Palestinians |
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2012 |
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza |
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2014 |
Israel launches another round of fighting in Gaza |
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2016 |
Israel begins Operation Good Neighbor to provide assistance to injured Syrians |
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2017 |
The U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel |
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2020 |
Israel and the United Arab Emirates & Bahrain agree to the Abraham Accords. Morocco and then Sudan join the Abraham Accords (in Dec 2020 and Jan 2021). |
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2021 |
Naftali Bennett elected Israel’s 13th Prime Minister (Yamina Party) (in June 2021) |
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2022 |
Yair Lapid becomes Israel’s 14th Prime Minister (Yesh Atid party) (in July 2022) |
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Benjamin Netanyahu re-elected Prime Minister (in Dec. 2022) |
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Timeline Contributions
Operation Moses
(By Steven Schwarz)
On 18 November 1984, the State of Israel launched Operation Moses, a seven-week covert operation airlifting thousands of Ethiopian Jews in refugee camps to safety in Israel. While the Jewish community in Ethiopia has a rich Jewish history dating back well over two thousand years, by the mid-1980s the community was endangered by the Ethiopian Civil War and widespread famine.
Thousands trekked through the deserts in Ethiopia and Sudan, where they would eventually meet Israeli officials and be airlifted to Israel. Nearly a third of Ethiopian Jews traveling to Sudan died on the way. The unprecedented mission was coordinated by the Mossad, in cooperation with the CIA and Sudanese State Security (SSS). By the time the mission concluded, approximately 8,000 Ethiopian Jews had been brought to Israel aboard 30 flights. The ancient Jewish community in Ethiopia, called Beta Israel (House of Israel), had lived in relative isolation from the rest of the Jewish world for centuries.
The operation came to a halt on 5 January 1985, when news of the activity leaked to the international media. Several days later, Prime Minister Shimon Peres addressed the Knesset saying, “We here, have been born within the ongoing, never-ending hope of the unification of our people. Neither economic difficulty nor internal distress, nor geographical distance, nor political obstacle shall halt or postpone the rescue and immigration effort…there are no black Jews and white Jews: There are Jews. History and faith bind us together forever.”
While the operation was a resounding success, over 15,000 Jews - many of whom were infants, or old and infirm - were left in Ethiopia.
In May 1991, the Israeli government orchestrated a follow-up mission, known as Operation Solomon. Over the course of the 36-hour mission, 14,325 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to safety in Israel.