The Six-Day War and Yom Kippur

TIMELINE 13A

The Six-Day War and Yom Kippur

1967 to 1976

In six days Israel reunites Jerusalem and triples its territory. The War of Attrition, terror abroad and the shock of Yom Kippur follow.

TURNING POINTS

1967 Jun 5 to 10 The Six-Day War. Israel takes Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. Jerusalem is united under Israeli control.

1967 Jun 7 Jerusalem reunited. Israeli forces take the Old City, the Western Wall and the rest of Judea and Samaria, Sinai, Gaza and the Golan Heights.

1967 Jun 8 to 1970 Aug 7 The War of Attrition. Egypt shells Israeli positions along the Suez Canal and Israel answers with air raids deep in Egypt. The fighting is heaviest from March 1969 and a ceasefire takes hold on August 7, 1970.

1967 Nov 22 Resolution 242. The UN Security Council calls for Israeli withdrawal from territories and for peace and secure borders. Arab leaders had already declared three refusals at Khartoum.

1969 Mar 17 Golda Meir becomes prime minister. She follows Levi Eshkol, who died in office on February 26. She resigns in April 1974 after the Yom Kippur War.

1972 Sep 5 The Munich massacre. Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games.

1973 Oct 6 to 25 The Yom Kippur War. Egypt and Syria attack on the holiest day of the year and Israel repels them. Ceasefires take hold on October 22 and 25.

1976 Jul 4 Operation Entebbe. Commandos fly to Uganda and rescue the hostages of a hijacked Air France plane. Yoni Netanyahu is killed leading the raid.

ALSO IN THIS PERIOD

1967 May Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.

1967 Jun Moshe Dayan becomes defense minister days before the Six-Day War.

1967 Jun Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attack the American ship USS Liberty.

1967 Jun 28 Territory: Israel extends its law and administration to East Jerusalem.

1967 Naomi Shemer writes “Jerusalem of Gold”.

1967 Aug 29 to Sep 1 Summit: Arab leaders meet at Khartoum and refuse peace, recognition and negotiation with Israel.

1967 Sep Settlers return to Kfar Etzion, the first Israeli settlement after the war.

1967 Oct Egyptian missiles sink the Israeli destroyer Eilat.

1968 Mar Israeli forces fight the PLO at Karameh in Jordan.

1968 Apr A Passover stay in Hebron leads to the founding of Kiryat Arba.

1968 May Israel Television begins regular broadcasts.

1968 Jul Palestinian gunmen hijack an El Al plane to Algiers.

1968 Dec Israeli commandos raid Beirut airport after an attack on an El Al plane in Athens.

1969 Aug A fire damages the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

1969 Oct 28 Election: Alignment wins 56 seats.

1970 Feb 21 A bomb on a Swissair plane kills 47 after takeoff from Zurich.

1972 May 30 Massacre at Lod Airport. Three Japanese gunmen working for a Palestinian group kill 26 people, most of them Puerto Rican pilgrims.

1973 Dec 31 Election: Alignment wins 51 seats.

1974 Jan 18 Territory: Israel and Egypt sign the first Sinai disengagement agreement.

1974 Apr 11 Gunmen kill 18 people in Kiryat Shmona.

1974 May Massacre at Ma’alot. Gunmen seize a school in the north. Twenty-two schoolchildren are among the dead.

1974 May 31 Territory: Israel and Syria sign a disengagement agreement on the Golan Heights.

1974 Jun 3 Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister for the first time.

1975 Jul 4 A bomb in Jerusalem’s Zion Square kills 15.

1975 Sep 4 Territory: the second Sinai agreement returns the Abu Rudeis oil fields and the passes.