Volume No. 1 Issue No. 8  Date: April 2000

Dear Friends: I received several requests to post a history timeline of the State of Israel. I hope this fulfills that request. Please keep your feedback coming! If there are subjects of interest that you would like to appear in future newsletters, don’t hesitate to email me at: IloveIsrl@aol.com…Eliezer Braun-Shuva Israel Director  

November 29, 1947

Creation of the State of Israel. The U.N.approves a plan which partitions the western quarter of Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state, keeping the eastern three quarters of Palestine (now modern day Jordan) exclusively Arab. It was accepted by the Jews, but rejected by the Arabs.

May 14, 1948

The State of Israel declares itself as an independent nation. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's UN ambassador, calls for the UN to accept Israel as a member state. The UN approves. For the first time in 1,900 years the Jews have a free an independent homeland.

May 15, 1948

Syrian, Iraqi, and Egyptian troops invade Israel, publicly stating that they would destroy Israel and all Jews living in it. Israel, outnumbered and unprepared, triumphs. Arabs totally refuse to recognize Israel, offer peace, or even negotiate. Israel unilaterally withdraws from most area captured during the war.

1948 - 1949

Almost 250,000 Holocaust survivors make their way to Israel. "Operation Magic Carpet" brings thousands of Yemenite Jews to Israel.

 1956

Arab terrorism against Israel from Egypt increases. Eventually Egypt blockades the Gulf of Aqaba, and closes the Suez canal to Israeli shipping. Egypt's Pre../side2nt Nassar calls for the destruction of Israel. Terrorism against Israel continues. In response to the closing of the canal, Israel, England, and France go to war and force Egypt to end the blockade of Aqaba, and once again open the canal to all nations. Once again, despite Egypt's refusal to recognize the State of Israel, Israel unilaterally withdraws from Egyptian territory.

1964

Creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization

1959 - 1967 

Arab terrorists infiltrate Israel with approval of Egyptian and Jordanian

governments. Jewish farms in northern Israel are constantly attacked by artillery from Syrian positions on the Golan Heights. The UN refuses to condemn the Arab attacks.

May 17, 1967

Egyptian Pre../side2nt Nasser demands that the UN dismantle the UN Emergency force between Israel and Egypt. Incredibly, the UN complies, leaving Israel open to Egyptian attack.

May 20, 1967

Nasser closes the strategic straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Arab nations now begin to encircle Israel with over 250,000 troops, 2,000 tanks, and 700 fighter planes and bombers.

Nassar and other Arab leaders call for the destruction of Israel and all the Jews living in it. The plan for another Holocaust is evidenced by the motto "Push the Jews into the sea.”                 

June 7, 1967

Nasser states that Egypt is in a state of war with Israel. Egyptian troops mass in the Sinai, ready to invade Israel.

June 5-11, 1967

The “Six Day” War. The Israeli air force undertakes a pre-emptive strike against the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, successfully destroying 391 planes on the ground and 60 more in the air. Israeli diplomats tell Jordan that they have no quarrel with Jordan, and that if they stay out of the war, Israel will not fight their army. King Hussein of Jordan is led by Egypt to believe that the Arabs will certainly prevail, and Hussein orders the Jordanian army to attack.

June 7, 1967

Israeli forces enter and reunify Jerusalem. The Israeli flag is raised over all Jerusalem at;

10:15am. The Temple Mount and the “Kotel” (Western Wall) are again in Jewish hands after 1900 years of exile. By June 11 the Arab forces are routed, and Israel holds territory in the Golan, the Biblical West Bank, and all of the Sinai up to the Suez canal.

As the Jordanians withdraw from Jerusalem, they destroy every synagogue in the city with explosives. It is discovered that during the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem, they had dug up Jewish graveyards, and used the tombstones to line latrines and build roads.

Israel offers a peace agreement to the Arabs, and offers to give up all territory in exchange for a peace treaty. The Arabs reject Israel, refusing to negotiate, compromise, or even accept the existence of the Jewish state.

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