timeline - Jewish National Fund

Zion Mule Corps
1
9
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1914 - 1918
World War I
1
9
1
0
1921
British Mandate
begins
1
9
2
0
Hehalutz
1901
Fifth Zionist Congress,
Jewish National Fund
founded
Suez Canal
Refugee ship Exodus
1939 - 1945
World War II
1933 - 1945
Holocaust
(1933: Nazi control of
Germany
1945: end of WWII)
1
9
4
0
1
9
3
0
1948
State of Israel
begins,
Israel’s War of
Independence
1
9
5
0
British Paratroops
1956
Sinai Campaign
Ariel Sharon near the Suez Canal
1982 Lebanon War
1
9
7
0
1
9
8
0
1976 Rescue at
Entebbe Airport
Ammunition Hill
1
9
6
0
November 1984 January 1985
Operation Moses
1973
Yom Kippur
War
1967 Six-Day War
Reunification of
Jerusalem
1978
Camp David
Accords signed
(Egypt/Israel)
Menachem Begin
and Anwar Sadat
are awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize
Operation Solomon
2003
Ilan Ramon
First Israeli Astronaut
in fatal mission
on the space shuttle
Columbia
2008
Israel celebrates
60 years of
independence
2006
Second Lebanon
War
1991
Operation
Solomon
2
0
0
0
1992 Israel
wins first
Olympic
medals,
silver and
bronze,
in Judo
1994
Peace
Treaty
with
Jordan
1995
Prime Minister
Yitzchak Rabin
assassinated
2
0
1
0
December 2008 January 2009
Operation Cast Lead
(Gaza)
Ilan Ramon
1
9
9
0
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