The 2000s

TIMELINE 17 · THE 2000S

The 2000s

2000 to 2009 Conflict Rule and borders Diplomacy and law Settlement Faith and learning Literature and arts

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The Second Intifada begins, and the suicide bombings of 2001 and 2002 lead to Operation Defensive Shield. Israel leaves Gaza in 2005.

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TURNING POINTS ALSO IN THIS DECADE

2000 May 24 Withdrawal from Lebanon. Israel leaves southern

Lebanon. The Second Intifada begins on

September 28. MAP 28

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.

2001 Jun 1 The Dolphinarium bombing. A suicide bomber

kills 21 people outside a Tel Aviv discotheque,

most of them teenagers.

2001 Aug 9 The Sbarro bombing. A suicide bomber kills 15

people, seven of them children, in a Jerusalem

pizzeria.

2002 Mar 27 The Park Hotel massacre. A suicide bomber kills

30 people at a Passover seder in Netanya.

Two Technion chemists win the Nobel Prize.

Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko are honored for work on how cells break down

proteins.

2005 Aug 15 to Sep 12 Disengagement from Gaza. Israel removes all its

soldiers and communities from the Strip. MAP 23

2006 Jul 12 to Aug 14 The Second Lebanon War. It follows a cross-

border Hezbollah attack and ends with a UN

ceasefire. MAP 28

2007 Jun 14 Hamas takes control of Gaza. Hamas drives out the Palestinian Authority after winning elections in

January 2006.

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

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

2001 Feb 6 Special election: Sharon beats Barak. 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 Apr 11 A truck bomb at the Djerba synagogue kills 21.

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

2000 Sep 28 to 2005 Feb 8 The Second Intifada.

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 7 Bombs at Taba and Ras Shitan in Sinai kill 34. 2004 Nov 11 Yasser Arafat dies. 2005 Robert Aumann wins the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on game theory. 2005 Feb 8 Summit: Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas meet at Sharm el- Sheikh.

2006 Jan Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.

2006 Mar 28 Election: Kadima wins 29 seats. 2006 Apr 14 Ehud Olmert becomes prime minister after Kadima wins on March 28.

2007 Nov 27 Summit: the Annapolis Conference relaunches talks.

2008 Waltz with Bashir wins the Golden Globe for best foreign film.

2008 Dec 27 to 2009 Jan 18 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. 2008 Nov 26 Gunmen attack the Chabad House in Mumbai.

2009 Ada Yonath wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 2009 Feb 10 Election: Kadima 28 seats, Likud 27.

2009 Mar 31 Benjamin Netanyahu returns as prime minister.

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