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Mubarak Plan of 1989

History; Israeli history

In 1989, Mubarak came up with a new plan to get Israel and the PLO to negotiate peace. The new plan focused on the Palestinian elections and required Israel to accept the outcome ...

Abdullah Plan

History; Israeli history

In 2002, Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia unveiled a peace initiative that called on Israel to withdraw to pre- 1967 borders and suggested the establishment of ...

Byzantine Period

History; Israeli history

In 313 the Byzantine Empire was established in the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the emperor Constantine adopted Christianity. The Land of Israel had become a ...

Babylonian Exile

History; Israeli history

In 586 BCE Babylonia conquered the Kingdom of Judah. Jerusalem and the First Temple were destroyed, and most Jews were sent into exile.

Cieszanow

History; Israeli history

In August 1940 about 1,000 young men from Czestochowa between the ages of 18 and 25 were sent to the forced labor camp in Cieszanow (Lublin Province); almost none survived.

clergy

History; Israeli history

In Christian contexts, the body of ordained men (and in some churches women) in a church, permitted to perform the priestly and/or pastoral duties, as distinct from the laity to ...