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| 1964 | Eshkol, Levi |  |
| 17th Jan The PLO Charter is put together with articles that proclaim Israel an illegal state and pledges "the elimination of Zionism in Palestine", the PLO is founded in Egypt |
| 17th Jan The PLO is founded by the Arab League with the aim of overthrowing the state of Israel |
| 31st Dec Fatah, a Palestinian movement for independence, makes the first terror attack on Israel and initiates the armed struggle for a state |
| 31st Dec Syrian-based al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launch their 1st raid on Israel with the aim of provoking a retaliation and sparking an Arab war against Israel |
| 1970 | Meir, Golda | |
| 17th Sep The PLO is driven out of Jordan and forced to move to Lebanon |
| 1982 | Begin, Menachem | |
| 21st April Jerusalem Strikes the PLO in Lebanon as retaliation for PLO guerrilla activities within Israel |
| 6th June Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon orders his forces to invade southern Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country |
| 1993 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| 19th Jan Israel recognizes the PLO as no longer criminal |
| 28th Jan The Israeli Supreme Court unanimously upholds the deportations of 400 Palestinians from the occupied territories to Lebanon |
| 1st Feb Yitzhak Rabin announces that his country would repatriate about 100 Palestinians deported to Lebanon, an offer rejected by the deportees |
| 30th Mar Israeli authorities bar West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel after two traffic police officers were shot to death |
| 25th July Israel launches its heaviest artillery and air assault on Lebanon since 1982 in an attempt to eradicate Hezbollah and Palestinian guerrilla threats |
| 31st July The fighting ended July 31 with a US-brokered cease-fire, Israel and Hezbollah the agree not to attack civilian targets, but the cease-fire is short lived |
| 29th Aug Negotiations continue between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, with Israel reported on the verge of recognizing the PLO |
| 30th Aug Israel's Cabinet approves a framework for Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories |
| 9th Sep PLO leaders and Israel agree to recognize each other, clearing the way for a peace accord |
| 13th Sep Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy, Arafat has control of most of the Gaza Strip and 27% of the West Bank |
| 14th Sep Israel and Jordan sign a framework for negotiations, a day after the signing of a PLO-Israeli peace accord |
| 23rd Sep The Israeli parliament ratifies the Israel-PLO accord |
| 6th Oct Cairo Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat hold their first official meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to begin work on realizing terms of the Israeli-PLO accord |
| 5th Dec A Palestinian boards a bus and opens fire with an assault rifle in the first major attack in Israel since the signing of a peace pact with the PLO; the gunman kills a reservist before being gunned down |
| 1994 | Goldstein, Baruch | |
| 25th Feb Hebron In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and kills 29 people |
| 1994 | Rabin, Yitzhak | |
| 9th Feb PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initial an agreement on security measures that had been blocking a peace accord |
| 25th Feb Hebron In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and kills 29 people |
