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1948

  • State of Israel proclaimed. 600,000 Jews in the land. (5 Iyar 5708 – – 14 May 1948)
  • End of British Mandate – 14 May
  • Israel invaded by five Arab states (15 May)
  • War of Independence (May 1948 – July 1949)
  • Israel Defence Forces (IDF) established
  • Armistice agreements signed with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
  • Jerusalem divided under Israeli and Jordanian rule.

State of Israel Proclamed

1949

  • First Government — David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister (7 Adar 5709 — 8 March 1949)
  • Israel admitted to United Nations as 59th member.

1st Government

1950

  • Jordan Annexes the West Bank — (7 Iyar 5710 — 24 April 1950)
  • Second Government — David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (20 Heshvan 5711 – – 30 October 1950)

2nd Government

1951

  • Third Government — David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (8 Tishrei 5712 — 8 October 1951)

3rd Government

 

1952

  • Fourth Government David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (4 Tevet 5713 — 22 December 1952)

4th Government

1954

  • Fifth Government Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister — (22 Shevat 5714 — 26 January 1954)

5th Government

 

1955

  • Sixth Government Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister — (9 Tammuz 5715 — 29 June 1955)
  • Seventh Government David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (18 Heshvan 5716 — 3 November 1955)

6th Government

7th Government

 

1956

  • Suez Crisis (Sinai Campaign)

 

1958

  • Eighth Government David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (15 Tevet 5718 — 7 January 1958)

8th Government

 

1959

  • Ninth Government David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (16 Kislev 5720 — 17 December 1959)

9th Government

 

1961

  • Tenth Government David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister — (23 Heshvan 5722 — 2 November 1961)

10th Government

 

1962

  • Adolf Eichmann tried and executed in Israel for his key part in the Holocaust.

 

1963

  • Eleventh Government Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister — (4 Tammuz 5723 — 26 June 1963)
  • Twelveth Government Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister — (17 Tevet 5725 — 22 December 1963)

11th Government

12th Government

 

1964

  • National Water Carrier completed, bringing water from Lake Kinneret in the North to the semi-arid South.

 

1966

  • Thirteenth Government Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister — (20 Tevet 5726 — 2 January 1966)
  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize in Literature.

13th Government

 

1967

  • Six Day War – Jerusalem libreated and reunited.

 

1969

  • Fourteenth Government Golda Meir, Prime Minister — (27 Adar 5729 — 17 March 1969)
  • Fifteenth Government Golda Meir, Prime Minister — (6 Tevet 5730 — 15 December 1969)

14th Government

15th Government

 

1973

  • Yom Kippur War

 

1974

  • Sixteenth Government Golda Meir, Prime Minister — (16 Adar 5734 — 10 March 1974)
  • Seventeenth Government Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister — (13 Sivan 5734 — 3 June 1974)

16th Government

17th Government

 

1975

  • Israel becomes an associate member of the European Common Market.

 

1974

  • Eighteenth Government Menahem Begin, Prime Minister — (4 Tammuz 5737 — 20 June 1977)

18th Government

 

1978

  • Camp David Accords & framework
  • Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed

 

1979

  • Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

 

1981

  • Ninteenth Government Menahem Begin, Prime Minister — (5 Av 5741 — 5 August 1981)
  • Israel Air Force destroys Iraqi nuclear reactor just before it is to become operative
  • Israel’s three-stage withdrawal from Sinai completed.

19th Government

 

1982

  • Operation Peace for Galilee removes PLO terrorists from Lebanon

1983

  • Twentieth Government — Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister — (3 Heshvan 5744 — 10 October 1983)

20th Government

 

1984

  • Twenty-First Government — Shimon Peres, Prime Minister — (16 Elul 5744 — 13 September 1984)
  • Operation Moses – Immigration of Jews from Ethiopia

21st Government

 

1985

  • Free Trade Agreement signed with United States

 

1986

  • Twenty-Second Government — Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister — (17 Tishrei 5747 — 20 October 1986)

22nd Government

 

1988

  • Twenty-Third Government — Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister — (14 Tevet 5749 — 22 December 1988)

23rd Government

 

1990

  • Twenty-Fourth Government — Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister — (18 Sivan 5750 — 11 June 1990)

24th Government

 

1991

  • Israel attacked by Iraqi Scud missiles during Gulf War
  • Operation Solomon – airlift of Jews from Ethiopia
  • Diplomatic relations established with China and India

 

1992

  • Twenty-Fifth Government — Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister — (12 Tammuz 5752 — 13 July 1992)

25th Government

 

1993

  • Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements for the Palestinian Arabs signed by Israel and PLO
  • Implementation of Palestinian Arab self-government in Gaza Strip and Jericho area
  • Full diplomatic relations with the Holy See
  • Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty signed

 

1994

  • Rabin, Peres, Arafat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
  • Prime Minister Rabin assassinated at peace rally

 

1995

  • Twenty-Sixth Government — Shimon Peres, Prime Minister — (29 Heshvan 5756 — 22 November 1995)
  • Operation Grapes of Wrath, retaliation for Hezbollah terrorists’ attacks on northern Israel.
  • Trade representation offices set up in Oman and Qatar

26th Government

 

1996

  • Twenty-Seventh Government — Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister —
    (1 Tammuz 5756 — 18 June 1996)

27th Government

 

1999

  • Twenty-Eighth Government — Ehud Barak, Prime Minister — (3 Sivan 5759 — 18 May 1999)

28th Government

 

2001

  • Twenty-Ninth Government — Ariel Sharon – Prime Minister — (12 Adar 5761 — 7 March 2001)

29th Government

 

2003

  • Thirtieth Government — Ariel Sharon – Prime Minister — (26 Adar I 5763 — 28 February 2003)

30th Government

 

2005

  • Israel evacuates all Jewish communities in Gaza
  • Palestinian infighting starts
  • Kassam rockets from Gaza attack Israel on regular basis

 

2006

  • PM Sharon incapacitated by massive stroke, Olmert takes over as PM
  • Hamas terrorists win election for the Palestinian Arabs
  • Hezbollah war in Lebanon, massive rocket attacks on Israeli civilians in Northern Israel
  • Thirty-First Government — Ehud Olmert – Prime Minister — (6 Iyar 5766 — 4 May 2006)

31st Government

 

2008

  • Operation Hot Winter launched on February 29, 2008 in response to Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian Arabs

 

2009

  • Thirty-Second Government — Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister —
    (6 Nisan 5768 — 31 March 2009)

32nd Government

 

2013

  • Thirty-Third Government — Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister —
    (8 Nisan 5773 — 18 March 2013)

33rd Government

2015

  • Thirty-Fourth Government — Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister —
    (25 Iyar 5775 — 14 May 2015)

34th Government

 
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