Timeline of Jewish history

c. 1312 BCE (?*)

Moses and the Exodus from Egypt

c. 1250 BCE–c. 1025 BCE

Biblical judges lead the people

c. 1025 BCE–c. 1010 BCE

King Saul

c. 1010 BCE–c. 970 BCE

King David

c. 970 BCE–c. 931 BCE

King Solomon

c. 960 BCE

Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem completed

Rehoboam's Kingdom of Judah

c. 931 BCE

Split between Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and the Kingdom of Judah

c. 931 BCE–c. 913 BCE

King Rehoboam of Judah

c. 931 BCE–c. 910 BCE

King Jeroboam of Israel

840 BCE

Mesha inscription describes Moabite victory over a son of King Omri of Israel.

c. 740 BCE–c. 700 BCE

prophecy of Isaiah

c. 740 BCE–c. 722 BCE

Kingdom of Israel falls to Neo-Assyrian Empire

c. 715 BCE–c. 687 BCE

King Hezekiah of Judah

c. 649 BCE–c. 609 BCE

King Josiah of Judah institutes major reforms

c. 626 BCЕ – c. 587 BCE

prophecy of Jeremiah

c. 600 BCЕ

Ketef Hinnom scrolls

597 BCE

first deportation to Babylon

586 BCE

Jerusalem falls to Nebuchadnezzar and Solomon's Temple destroyed

Main articles: Second Temple period, Yehud (Persian province), Maccabean Revolt, Hasmonean dynasty, Herodian kingdom, and Jewish-Roman Wars

539 BCE

Jews allowed to return to Jerusalem, by permission of Cyrus

Model of the Second Temple

520 BCE

Prophecy of Zechariah

c. 520 BCE

Zerubbabel leads the first group of Jews from captivity back to Jerusalem

516 BCE

Second Temple consecrated

c. 475 BCE

Often associated with Xerxes I of Persia,[1][2] Queen Esther revealed her identity to the king and began to plead for her people, pointing to Haman as the evil schemer plotting to destroy them.

c. 460 BCE

Seeing anarchy breaking out in Judea, Xerxes' successor Persian King Artaxerxes sent Ezra to restore order.

332 BCE

Alexander the Great conquers Phoenicia and Gaza.

332 BCE?

According to Josephus, Alexander visits Judea and seeks out the high priest Jaddus. He shows Alexander the prophecy of Alexander's own life and conquests found in the Book of Daniel. This story is considered apocryphal and created centuries later, perhaps in the early Hasmonean period, though.[3]

167–140 BCE

The Maccabean Revolt against the Greek Syrian Seleucid Empire, led by Judas Maccabeus, resulting in victory and installation of the Hanukkah holiday.

150 BCE–100 CE

At some point during this era the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) is finalized and canonized. Jewish religious works that were explicitly written after the time of Ezra were not canonized, although many became popular among many groups of Jews. Later works that were included in the Greek translation of the Bible (the Septuagint) become known as the deuterocanonical books.

140–63 BCE

The Hasmonean dynasty rules Judea. The Hasmonean kingdom expands outward to Idumea, Samaria, Perea, Galilee, and Gilead due to weakness and dissolution within the Seleucid Empire.

63 BCE

Pompey lay siege to and entered the Temple, Judea became a client kingdom of Rome.

40 BCE–4 BCE

Herod the Great appointed King of the Jews by the Roman Senate, replacing the Hasmonean dynasty with the Herodian dynasty.

1st century CE

4–6 CE

Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem, Herodian Kingdom.

6 CE

Province of Roman Judea created by merging Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea.

10 CE

Hillel the Elder, considered the greatest Torah sage, dies, leading to the dominance of Shammai till 30 CE, see also Hillel and Shammai.

26–36 CE

Sanhedrin trial of Jesus, Roman trial of Jesus, and the crucifixion of Jesus.

30 CE

Helena of Adiabene, a vassal Parthian kingdom in Mesopotamia, converts to Judaism. Significant numbers of Adiabene population follow her, later also providing limited support for Jews during Jewish-Roman wars. In the following centuries the community mostly converts to Christianity.

30–70 CE

Schism within Judaism during the Second Temple era. A sect within Hellenised Jewish society starts Jewish Christianity, see also Rejection of Jesus.

Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans (1850 painting by David Roberts)

66–70

The First Jewish–Roman War ended with destruction of the Second Temple and the fall of Jerusalem. 1,100,000 people are killed by the Romans during the siege, and 97,000 captured and enslaved.[4] The Sanhedrin was relocated to Yavne by Yochanan ben Zakai, see also Council of Jamnia. Fiscus Judaicus levied on all Jews of the Roman Empire whether they aided the revolt or not.

70–200

Period of the Tannaim, rabbis who organized and elucidated the Oral Torah. The decisions of the Tannaim are contained in the Mishnah, Beraita, Tosefta, and various Midrash compilations.[5]

73

Final events of the First Jewish–Roman War – the fall of Masada. Christianity starts off as a Jewish sect and then develops its own texts and ideology and branches off from Judaism to become a distinct religion.

Banner from the first issue of the Jidische Folkschtime (Yiddish People's Voice), published in Stockholm, 12 January 1917.

1800–1900

The Golden Age of Yiddish literature, the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, and the revival of Hebrew literature.[30]

1808–1840

Large-scale aliyah in hope of Hastening Redemption in anticipation of the arrival of the Messiah in 1840.[31]

1820–1860

The development of Orthodox Judaism, a set of traditionalist movements that resisted the influences of modernization that arose in response to the European emancipation and Enlightenment movements; characterized by continued strict adherence to Halakha.

1830

Greece grants citizenship to Jews.

1831

Jewish militias take part in the defense of Warsaw against Russians.

1834–1835

Muslims, Druze attack Jews in Safed, Hebron & in Jerusalem.[32][33][34][35][36][37] (See related: Safed plunder).

1837

Moses Haim Montefiore is knighted by Queen Victoria

1837

Galilee earthquake of 1837 devastates Jewish communities of Safed and Tiberias.

1838–1933

Rabbi Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen (Chofetz Chaim) opens an important yeshiva. He writes an authoritative Halakhic work, Mishnah Berurah.

Mid-19th century

Beginning of the rise of classical Reform Judaism.

Mid-19th century

Rabbi Israel Salanter develops the Mussar Movement. While teaching that Jewish law is binding, he dismisses current philosophical debate and advocates the ethical teachings as the essence of Judaism.

Mid-19th century

Positive-Historical Judaism, later known as Conservative Judaism, is developed.

1841

David Levy Yulee of Florida is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first Jew elected to Congress.

1851

Norway allows Jews to enter the country. They are not emancipated until 1891.

1858

Jews emancipated in England.

1860

Alliance Israelite Universelle, an international Jewish organization is founded in Paris with the goal to protect Jewish rights as citizens.

1860–1875

Moshe Montefiori builds Jewish neighbourhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem starting with Mishkenot Sha'ananim.

1860–1864

Jews are taking part in Polish national movement, that was followed by January rising.

1860–1943

Henrietta Szold: educator, author, social worker and founder of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.

1861

The Zion Society is formed in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

1862

Jews are given equal rights in Russian-controlled Congress Poland. The privileges of some towns regarding prohibition of Jewish settlement are revoked. In Leipzig, Moses Hess publishes the book Rome and Jerusalem, the first book to call for the establishment of a Jewish socialist commonwealth in Palestine. The book is also notable for giving the impetus for the Labor Zionist movement.

1867

Jews emancipated in Hungary.

1868

Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Though converted to Christianity as a child, he is the first person of Jewish descent to become a leader of government in Europe.

1870–1890

Russian Zionist group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and Bilu (est. 1882) set up a series of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, financially aided by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In Rishon LeZion Eliezer ben Yehuda revives Hebrew as spoken modern language.

1870

Jews emancipated in Italy.

1871

Jews emancipated in Germany.

1875

Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College is founded in Cincinnati. Its founder was Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the architect of American Reform Judaism.[38]

1877

New Hampshire becomes the last state to give Jews equal political rights.

1878

Petah Tikva is founded by religious pioneers from Jerusalem, led by Yehoshua Stampfer.

1880

World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces.

1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920

Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.

1881

On December 30–31, the First Congress of all Zionist Unions for the colonization of Palestine was held at Focșani, Romania.

1882–1903

The First Aliyah, a major wave of Jewish immigrants to build a homeland in Palestine.[39]

1886

Rabbi Sabato Morais and Alexander Kohut begin to champion the Conservative Jewish reaction to American Reform, and establish The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as a school of 'enlightened Orthodoxy'.

1890

The term "Zionism" is coined by an Austrian Jewish publicist Nathan Birnbaum in his journal Self Emancipation and was defined as the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

1895

First published book by Sigmund Freud.

1897

In response to the Dreyfus affair, Theodor Herzl writes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), advocating the creation of a free and independent Jewish state in Israel.

1897

The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund) is formed in Russia.

1897

First Russian Empire Census: 5,200,000 of Jews, 4,900,000 in the Pale. The lands of former Poland have 1,300,000 Jews or 14% of population.

1897

The First Zionist Congress was held at Basel, which brought the World Zionist Organization (WZO) into being.

1902

Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter reorganizes the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and makes it into the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism.

1903

St. Petersburg's Znamya newspaper publishes a literary hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Kishinev Pogrom caused by accusations that Jews practice cannibalism.

1905

1905 Russian Revolution accompanied by pogroms.

1915

Yeshiva College (later University) and its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Seminary is established in New York City for training in a Modern Orthodox milieu.

1916

Louis Brandeis, on the first of June, is confirmed as the United States' first Jewish Supreme Court justice. Brandeis was nominated by American President Woodrow Wilson.

The Balfour Declaration which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and protected the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities.

1917

The British defeat the Turks and gain control of Palestine. The British issue the Balfour Declaration which gives official British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Many Jews interpret this to mean that all of Palestine was to become a Jewish state.[40]

1917 February

The Pale of Settlement is abolished, and Jews get equal rights. The Russian civil war leads to over 2,000 pogroms with tens of thousands murdered and hundreds of thousand made homeless.

1918–1939

The period between the two World Wars is often referred to as the "golden age" of hazzanut (cantors). Some of the great Jewish cantors of this era include Abraham Davis, Moshe Koussevitzky, Zavel Kwartin (1874–1953), Jan Peerce, Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Gershon Sirota (1874–1943), and Laibale Waldman.

1919

February 15: Over 1,200 Jews killed in Khmelnitsky pogrom.

March 25: Around 4,000 Jews killed by Cossack troops in Tetiev.

June 17: 800 Jews decapitated in assembly-line fashion in Dubova.[41]

1920

At the San Remo conference Britain receives the League of Nations' British Mandate of Palestine.

April 4–7: Five Jews killed and 216 wounded in the Jerusalem riots

1920s–present

A variety of Jewish authors, including Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich and Philip Roth, sometimes drawing on Jewish culture and history, flourish and become highly influential on the Anglophone literary scene.

1921

British military administration of the Mandate is replaced by civilian rule.

1921

Britain proclaims that all of Palestine east of the Jordan River is forever closed to Jewish settlement, but not to Arab settlement.

1921

Polish–Soviet peace treaty in Riga. Citizens of both sides are given rights to choose the country. Hundred thousands of Jews, especially small businesses forbidden in the Soviets, move to Poland.

1922

Reform Rabbi Stephen S. Wise established the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. (It merged with Hebrew Union College in 1950.)

1923

Britain gives the Golan Heights to the French Mandate of Syria. Arab immigration is allowed; Jewish immigration is not.

The First World Congress of Jewish Women is held 6–11 May in Vienna.

1924

2,989,000 Jews according to religion poll in Poland (10.5% of total). Jewish youth consisted 23% of students of high schools and 26% of students of universities.

1926

Prior to World War I, there were few Hasidic yeshivas in Europe. On Lag BaOmer 1926, Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Hacohen Rabinowicz, the fourth Radomsker Rebbe, declared, "The time has come to found yeshivas where the younger generation will be able to learn and toil in Torah", leading to the founding of the Keser Torah network of 36 yeshivas in pre-war Poland.[42]

1929

A long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalates into the 1929 Palestine riots. The riots included attacks by Arabs on Jews, resulting in massacres in Hebron and Safed, and violence against Jews in Jerusalem.

1930

World Jewry: 15,000,000. Main countries USA (4,000,000), Poland (3,500,000 11% of total), Soviet Union (2,700,000 2% of total), Romania (1,000,000 6% of total). Palestine 175,000 or 17% of total 1,036,000.

1933

Hitler takes over Germany; his anti-Semitic sentiments are well-known, prompting numerous Jews to emigrate.

1935

Regina Jonas became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi.[43]

1937

Adin Steinsaltz born, author of the first comprehensive Babylonian Talmud commentary since Rashi in the 11th century.

1939

The British government issues the 'White Paper'. The paper proposed a limit of 10,000 Jewish immigrants for each year between 1940 and 1944, plus 25,000 refugees for any emergency arising during that period.

1938–1945

The Holocaust (Ha Shoah), resulting in the methodical extermination of nearly 6 million Jews across Europe.

1940s–present

Various Jewish filmmakers, including Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and the Coen Brothers, frequently draw on Jewish philosophy and humor, and become some of the most artistically and popularly successful in the history of the medium.

1941

The Muslim residents of Baghdad carried out a savage pogrom against their Jewish compatriots. In this pogrom, known by its Arabic name al-Farhud, about 200 Jews were murdered and thousands wounded, on June 1–2. Jewish property was plundered and many homes set ablaze.

1941

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, arrives in New York after escaping Nazi Europe. Along with his father-in-law, the previous Rebbe, he builds one of the largest worldwide movements (Chabad-Lubavitch) aimed at inspiring Jews to return to their heritage and Torah observance.

1945–1948

Post-Holocaust refugee crisis. British attempts to detain Jews attempting to enter Palestine illegally.

1946–1948

The violent struggle for the creation of a Jewish state in the British mandate of Palestine is intensified by Jewish defense groups: Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi (group).

November 29, 1947

The United Nations approves the creation of a Jewish State and an Arab State in the British mandate of Palestine.

David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence on May 14, 1948, below a portrait of Theodor Herzl

May 14, 1948

The State of Israel declares itself as an independent Jewish state hours before the British Mandate is due to expire. Within eleven minutes, it is de facto recognized by the United States. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's UN ambassador, calls for the United Nations to accept Israel as a member state. The UN approves.

May 15, 1948

1948 Arab–Israeli War: Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon and Egypt invade Israel hours after its creation. The attack is repulsed, and Israel conquers more territory. A Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim lands results, as up to a million Jews flee or are expelled from Arab and Muslim nations. Most settle in Israel. See also 1949 Armistice Agreements.

1948–1949

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

1956

The 1956 Suez War Egypt blockades the Gulf of Aqaba, and closes the Suez canal to Israeli shipping. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser calls for the destruction of Israel. Israel, England, and France go to war and force Egypt to end the blockade of Aqaba, and open the canal to all nations.

1964

Jewish-Christian relations are revolutionized by the Roman Catholic Church's Vatican II.

1965

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax refuses to pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.[44][45]

1966

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970) becomes the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

May 16, 1967

Egyptian President Nasser demands that the UN dismantle the UN Emergency Force I (UNEF I) between Israel and Egypt. The UN complies and the last UN peacekeeper is out of Sinai and Gaza by May 19.

1967 May

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closes the strategic Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Egyptian troops replace the United Nations in the Sinai Peninsula.

June 5–10, 1967

The Six-Day War. Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. Israeli aircraft destroy the bulk of the Arab air forces on the ground in a surprise attack, followed by Israeli ground offensives which see Israel decisively defeat the Arab forces and capture the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights.

September 1, 1967

The Arab Leaders meet in Khartoum, Sudan. The Three No's of Khartoum: No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel. No peace with Israel.

1968

Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan formally creates a separate Reconstructionist Judaism movement by setting up the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia.[46][47]

1969

First group of African Hebrew Israelites begin to migrate to Israel under the leadership of Ben Ammi Ben Israel.

Mid-1970s to present

Growing revival of Klezmer music (The folk music of European Jews).,[48]

1972

Sally Priesand became the first female rabbi ordained in the US, and is believed to be only the second woman ever to be formally ordained in the history of Judaism.[49]

1972

Mark Spitz sets the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven) in the 1972 Summer Olympics. The Munich massacre occurs when Israeli athletes are taken hostage by Black September terrorists. The hostages are killed during a failed rescue attempt.

October 6–24, 1973

The Yom Kippur War. Egypt and Syria, backed up by expeditionary forces from other Arab nations, launch a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur. After absorbing the initial attacks, Israel recaptures lost ground and then pushes into Egypt and Syria. Subsequently, OPEC reduces oil production, driving up oil prices and triggering a global economic crisis.

1975

President Gerald Ford signs legislation including the Jackson–Vanik amendment, which ties US trade benefits to the Soviet Union to freedom of emigration for Jews.

1975

United Nations adopts resolution equating Zionism with racism. Rescinded in 1991.

1976

Israel rescues hostages taken to Entebbe, Uganda.

September 18, 1978

At Camp David, near Washington D.C., Israel and Egypt sign a comprehensive peace treaty, The Camp David Accord, which included the withdrawal of Israel from the Sinai.

1978

Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer receives Nobel Prize

1979

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

1979–1983

Operation Elijah: Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry.

1982 June–December

The Lebanon War. Israel invades Southern Lebanon to drive out the PLO.

1983

American Reform Jews formally accept patrilineal descent, creating a new definition of who is a Jew.

1984–1985

Operations Moses, Joshua: Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry by Israel.[50]

1986

Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize

1986

Nathan Sharansky, Soviet Jewish dissident, is freed from prison.

1987

Beginning of the First Intifada against Israel.

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall between East and West Germany, collapse of the communist East German government, and the beginning of Germany's reunification (which formally began in October 1990).

1990

The Soviet Union opens its borders for the three million Soviet Jews who had been held as virtual prisoners within their own country. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews choose to leave the Soviet Union and move to Israel.

1990–1991

Iraq invades Kuwait, triggering a war between Iraq and Allied United Nations forces. Israel is hit by 39 Scud missiles from Iraq.

1991

Operation Solomon: Rescue of the remainder of Ethiopian Jewry in a twenty-four-hour airlift.

October 30, 1991

The Madrid Peace Conference opens in Spain, sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union.

April 22, 1993

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated.

Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords, with Bill Clinton behind them, 1993

September 13, 1993

Israel and PLO sign the Oslo Accords.

1994

The Lubavitcher (Chabad) Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, dies.

October 26, 1994

Israel and Jordan sign an official peace treaty. Israel cedes a small amount of contested land to Jordan, and the countries open official diplomatic relations, with open borders and free trade.

December 10, 1994

Arafat, Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize.[51]

November 4, 1995

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.

1996

Peres loses election to Benyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu (Likud party).

1999

Ehud Barak elected Prime Minister of Israel.

May 24, 2000

Israel unilaterally withdraws its remaining forces from its security zone in southern Lebanon to the international border, fully complying with the UN Security Council Res. 425.

2000 July

Camp David Summit.[52]

2000, Summer

Senator Joseph Lieberman becomes the first Jewish-American to be nominated for a national office (Vice President of the United States) by a major political party (the Democratic Party).

September 29, 2000

The al-Aqsa Intifada begins.

2001

Election of Ariel Sharon as Israel's Prime Minister.

2001

Jewish Museum of Turkey is founded by Turkish Jewry

2004

Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast builds its first synagogue, Birobidzhan Synagogue, in accordance with halakha.[53] Uriyahu Butler became the first member of the African Hebrew Israelite community to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

March 31, 2005

The Government of Israel officially recognizes the Bnei Menashe people of Northeast India as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, opening the door for thousands of people to immigrate to Israel.

2005 August

The Government of Israel withdraws its military forces and settlers from the Gaza Strip.

2005 December

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon falls into a coma; Deputy Premier Ehud Olmert takes over as Acting Prime Minister

2006 March

Ehud Olmert leads the Kadima party to victory in Israeli elections, becomes Prime Minister of Israel.

2006 July–August

A military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel started on July 12, after a Hezbollah cross-border raid into Israel. The war ended with the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 after 34 days of fighting. About 2,000 Lebanese and 159 Israelis were killed, and civilian infrastructure on both sides heavily damaged.

2008 December

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launches Operation Cast Lead (מבצע עופרת יצוקה) against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

2009 March

Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel (also, continues as the Chairman of the Likud Party).

2014 January

Ariel Sharon dies, after undergoing a sudden decline in health, having suffered renal failure and other complications, after spending 8 years in a deep coma due to his January 2006 stroke, on January 11, 2014.

2016 March

The Jewish Agency declares an end to immigration from Yemen, following the successful conclusion of a covert operation that brought 19 people to Israel over several days. The last 50 Yemenite Jews refuse to leave Yemen.

2017 December

The United States extends formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

2019 March

The United States became the first country to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan heights territory which it held since 1967.[54]

2020 August

Israel and the United Arab Emirates sign a peace treaty.[55]

30 April 2021

45 people are killed in the 2021 Meron stampede during Lag BaOmer.[56]

This is a timeline of events in the State of Israel since 1948.

• 1940s: 1948 – 1949
• 1950s: 1950 – 1951 – 1952 – 1953 – 1954 – 1955 – 1956 – 1957 – 1958 – 1959
• 1960s: 1960 – 1961 – 1962 – 1963 – 1964 – 1965 – 1966 – 1967 – 1968 – 1969
• 1970s: 1970 – 1971 – 1972 – 1973 – 1974 – 1975 – 1976 – 1977 – 1978 – 1979
• 1980s: 1980 – 1981 – 1982 – 1983 – 1984 – 1985 – 1986 – 1987 – 1988 – 1989
• 1990s: 1990 – 1991 – 1992 – 1993 – 1994 – 1995 – 1996 – 1997 – 1998 – 1999
• 2000s: 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009
• 2010s: 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2018 – 2019
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