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Wailing Wall Incident
A series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 when a long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. During the week of riots 116 Arabs and 133 Jews were killed and 232 Arabs and 198 Jews were injured and treated in hospital. -
MacDonald White Paper
British offical papers that PROPOSED a limit of 75,000 Jewish immigrants over 5 years. After this cut-off date,immigration would depend on the permission of the Arab majority. Restrictions were also placed on the rights of Jews to buy land from Arabs. Approved in May 1939. -
Zionist Movement
STARTS AT BEGINING OF TIME TO NOW. But after WWII it was strictly a call to go back to the homeland for Jews (Israeal) and and extream love for one's religion and life style. -
Harrison Report
SUMMER 1945. Was a report of the displaced persons camps along with former concentration camps by a US offical who was to look at the state of things in post WWII Europe and propose a solution to "The New Jewish Question" -
Operation Paperclip
Program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States after WWII.Truman offically order it to be put into action in Aug. 1945. -
Nuremberg Trials
Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces of WWII, Most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. -
Palestinian Diaspora
SINCE 1948, Palestinian Diaspora is basically all those who live out side of the Holy Land. There are some where between 9-11 million in total. About half make up the diaspora. -
Creation of Isreal
a homeland for the Jewish people. Israeli independence has been marked by immigration of Jews to the state, conflict with the Palestinians and by wars with neighbouring Arab states. -
Israeli War for Independance
Upon the termination of the Mandate on 14 May 1948, the Yishuv declared the formation of the State of Israel. Turning the civil war into a war between sovereign states. The fighting took place mostly on the former territory of the British Mandate and for a short time also in the Sinai Peninsula and southern Lebanon. -
Suez Canal Crisis
An attack that followed the President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal, after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam. -
Eichmann Trial
German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and a major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard Heydrich with the task of managing the mass deportation. He was captured by Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial on 15 criminal charges. He was hung on May 31,1962. -
Yom Kippur War
War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The war began when the coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which happened to occur that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. -
Oslo Accords
officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, An attempt to resolve the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Held at the Madrid Conference of 1991, in Oslo, Norway, Compleated in 1993 -
Second Intifada
Second Palestinian uprising and was a period of intensified Palestinian–Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended roughly around 2005. -
Babylonian Exile
287-238 BC. Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon.
