Oslo and the Second Intifada

TIMELINE 23

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Oslo and the Second Intifada

1993 to 2004

The Oslo Accords and peace with Jordan raise hopes. Rabin is murdered, the Camp David talks fail and the Second Intifada brings suicide bombings to Israel’s cities.

TURNING POINTS

1993 Sep 13 The Oslo Accords. Israel and the PLO sign the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn. The Palestinian Authority is created.

1994 Oct 26 Peace with Jordan. Rabin and King Hussein sign the treaty and normalize relations.

1995 Nov 4 Rabin is assassinated. A Jewish extremist shoots the prime minister after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Shimon Peres takes over the same day.

1996 Feb The Bus 18 bombings. Suicide bombers kill 45 people on Jerusalem buses in February and March.

2000 May 24 Withdrawal from Lebanon. Israel leaves the security zone in southern Lebanon after 18 years.

2000 Sep 28 The Second Intifada. After the Camp David summit fails, a wave of suicide bombings and fighting lasts until 2005.

2001 Mar 7 Ariel Sharon becomes prime minister. He beats Ehud Barak in the special election of February 6. He withdraws from Gaza in 2005, and a stroke ends his career in January 2006.

2002 Mar 27 The Park Hotel massacre. A suicide bomber kills 30 people at a Passover seder in Netanya.

ALSO IN THIS PERIOD

1993 Jul 25 to 31 Operation Accountability against Hezbollah.

1993 Dec 30 Israel and the Vatican sign the Fundamental Agreement.

1994 Feb 25 Baruch Goldstein kills 29 worshippers in Hebron.

1994 Apr 6 A suicide bomber kills eight on a bus in Afula.

1994 May 4 Territory: Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

1994 Jul 18 A bomb at the AMIA center in Buenos Aires kills 85.

1994 Oct 9 Hamas kidnaps soldier Nachshon Wachsman.

1994 Oct 19 A suicide bomber kills 22 on a bus on Dizengoff Street.

1994 Dec 10 Three share the Nobel Peace Prize. Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat are honored for the Oslo Accords.

1995 Jan 22 Two bombs at Beit Lid kill mostly soldiers.

1995 Sep 28 Territory: the Oslo II agreement divides Judea and Samaria into Areas A, B and C.

1996 Mar 4 A suicide bomber kills 13 at the Dizengoff Center.

1996 Mar 13 Summit: leaders meet at Sharm el-Sheikh against terrorism.

1996 Apr 11 to 27 Operation Grapes of Wrath against Hezbollah.

1996 May 29 Election: Netanyahu narrowly beats Peres.

1996 Jun 18 Benjamin Netanyahu becomes prime minister after beating Shimon Peres in the May 29 election.

1996 Sep 24 to 27 Riots follow the opening of the Western Wall Tunnel exit.

1997 Jan 15 Territory: Israel withdraws from most of Hebron under the Hebron Protocol.

1997 Feb 4 Two helicopters collide and 73 soldiers die.

1997 Jul 30 Suicide bombers kill 16 at the Mahane Yehuda market.

1997 Sep 4 Three suicide bombers kill five on Ben Yehuda Street.

1997 Sep 5 Twelve naval commandos die in an ambush in Lebanon.

1997 Sep 25 A failed Mossad plot against Khaled Mashal in Amman.

1998 Dana International wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

1998 Oct 23 Summit: Netanyahu and Arafat sign the Wye River Memorandum.

1999 May 17 Election: Barak beats Netanyahu.

1999 Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said found the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

1999 Jul 6 Ehud Barak becomes prime minister after beating Netanyahu on May 17.

1999 Dec 15 Summit: Israel and Syria open talks at Shepherdstown.

2000 Jul 11 to 25 Summit: Barak and Arafat meet at Camp David and fail to agree.

2001 Feb 6 Special election: Sharon beats Barak.

2001 Jun 1 The Dolphinarium bombing. A suicide bomber kills 21 people outside a Tel Aviv discotheque, most of them teenagers.

2001 Menashe Kadishman’s Fallen Leaves opens at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

2001 Aug 9 The Sbarro bombing. A suicide bomber kills 15 people, seven of them children, in a Jerusalem pizzeria.

2002 Mar 29 to May 3 Operation Defensive Shield in Judea and Samaria.

2002 Apr 11 A truck bomb at the Djerba synagogue kills 21.

2002 Israel begins building a security barrier.

2002 Daniel Kahneman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics.

2002 Amos Oz publishes A Tale of Love and Darkness.

2002 Nov 28 Attacks at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, kill 13.

2003 Jan 28 Election: Likud wins 38 seats.

2003 Jun 4 Summit: Sharon and Abbas meet President Bush at Aqaba.

2004 Oct 6 Two Technion chemists win the Nobel Prize. Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko are honored for work on how cells break down proteins.

2004 Oct 7 Bombs at Taba and Ras Shitan in Sinai kill 34.

2004 Nov 11 Yasser Arafat dies.