Israeli history

Israeli history

The history of Israel encompasses the history of the modern State of Israel, as well as that of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

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Camp David meeting between U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in 2000 to try and negotiate the final status of the Oslo ...

Oslo

History; Israeli history

Capital of Norway, site of secret talks in 1993 between Israel and the PLO that led to mutual recognition and the signing of the Declaration of Principles. Refers generally to the multi-stage ...

Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg

History; Israeli history

Career officer, after being seriously wounded in Africa, Stauffenberg found himself disillusioned by Hitler's war objectives. He joined up with the resistance in Berlin and volunteered to plant a ...

Shoah

History; Israeli history

Catastrophe. Denotes the catastrophic destruction of European Jewry during World War II. The term is used in Israel, and the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) has designated an official day, called ...

Michael von Faulhaber

History; Israeli history

Catholic Bishop who actively protested Nazi intimidation of the Churches. Gave a series of sermons condemning the "German Christian's" efforts to remove the Old Testament from Christian teaching.

Center for Jewish Culture

History; Israeli history

Center established at the Jaegollonlan University, in Cracow, on the site of the oldest synagogue in Poland, to document the history of the Jews in Poland.