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The United Nations Partition a Plan for Palestine. This plan set borders.
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The Palestinians bombed the Gazstrip in Israel
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On May 14, 1948 David Ben Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the sdtablishment ot the state of Isreal.
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The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents
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a set of agreements singed during 1949 between Isreal, Eygpt, Lebonon, Jordan, Syria
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Egypt takes control of Suez Canal
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Israel launches attack on Egypts Sinai Peninsula and drives toward Suez Canal
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The Cairo-born Yasser Arafat forms Fatah to conduct guerrilla warfare operations against Israel.
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In a new wave of Arab socialism, the Ba'ath party takes power in Iraq and Syria. Among the key targets of the Ba'ath is the support of the Palestinian cause.
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization is formed.
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Israel fights the Battle of Karameh against Fatah and Jordanian forces.
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On may 8th a the Palestinian attacked a school bus. 32 children died and 9 get hurt
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A Sabena airplane from Vienna to Tel Aviv was hijacked by four members of Black September and held at Lod airport. The hijackers demanded the release of 100 Palestinian prisoners. Israeli paratroopers disguised as mechanics entered the aircraft, killed two of the hi-jackers and released 90 passengers.
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Ben Yuda Sreet in Jerusalem is bombed
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May 3 - Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem is bombed by Palestinian terrorists. 33 civilians are injured.
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Operation Entebbe. Air France Flight 139, originating in Tel Aviv, took off from Athens, Greece, heading for Paris. It was hijacked by four terrorists (two from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two from the radical German militant group Revolutionary Cells). Israel performed a rescue mission to free the 248 passengers and 12 crew members held hostage at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
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Ali Hassan Salameh, head of Yasir Arafat's security unit, Force 17, killed by an Israeli car bomb in Beirut.
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Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Egypt becomes the first Arab country to officially recognize Israel.
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May15, 1982: Israel launches Operation Peace for Galilee into southern Lebanon. Israel claims the invasion was in order to remove PLO forces after several violations of a cease-fire, most notably an assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, by the Abu Nidal Organization. Israel is allied with the Lebanese Christian army against the PLO, Syria, and Muslim Lebanese. As a result of the war, the PLO leadership is driven from Lebanon and relocates to Tunis
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First Palestinian suicide attack inside Israel's borders: Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 massacre.
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In 1993, Israeli officials led by Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leaders from the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat strove to find a peaceful solution through what became known as the Oslo peace process
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Israel and PLO sign the Hebron account, which calls for the withdrawal of troops from Hebron. Hebron is located in the bottom of the West Bank.
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In July 2000, US President Bill Clinton convened a peace summit between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
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The Israeli negotiation team presented a new map at the Taba Summit in Taba, Egypt in January 2001.
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One peace proposal, presented by the Quartet of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States on 17 September 2002, was the Road Map for Peace.
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In 2007 a majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a number of polls, preferred the two-state solution over any other solution as a means of resolving the conflict.
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The IDF killed four men in a week.
