The Midnight Cry

2002.05.D.07 The Midnight Cry

"Sound the Shofar in Zion and sound the alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the Land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, it is nigh at hand" (Joel 2:1)

“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.  Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.  Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,  but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.  But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

And at midnight a cry was heard: "Behold, the bridegroom is coming,  go out to meet him!'  Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.  And the foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'  But the wise answered, saying, "No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' ¹⁰And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us!'  But he answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.'   Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. (Matt. 25:1-13)”

“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.  The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.  Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.  But put on King Messiah YahShua, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. (Rom. 13:11-13)”

^“The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven ^and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer,  but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of YAHWEH would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets. (Rev. 10:5-7)”

^“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,  not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.  But the day of YAHWEH will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.  Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, (2 Peter 3:8-11)”

The End-Time Clock Moves Ahead

After the 9-11 attack on the United States the Endtime prophetic clock moved two minutes closer to midnight.  For some years it stood at 11:51, none minutes till midnight or the End.

With the result of global Islamic terrorism so visible and committed, students of Scriptural prophecy believes we have moved two minutes closer to the “Time of the End.”

Even non-believing secular humanists feel that we are rapidly approaching the final cataclysmic events at the end of mankind’s age.

For years Israel and its Arab neighbors have been locked into a war of survival.  Recently a severe “intifada” has been raging in the land of Israel.  And on September 11^th it was brought to our shores.  Several of the militant Islamic fundamentalist factions have been evangelizing terror all over the globe.  This is called “jihad” a Holy War to convert or exterminate the infidel.  These Terror groups go by the names Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Force 17, Tanzim, Al Asqa Martyrs Brigade, Hezbollah, Fatah, PLO, Party of Allah, and the Democratic Front.  What Arafat is saying in English is the violence from these factions will stop when  Israel pulls back to the 1948 Green Line that runes in a north to south line 15miles from the Mediterranean Sea.  But in Arabic he says they intend to drive every Israeli into the sea.

Here is a timeline of the Arab aggression against Israel:

132: Bar Kokhba organized a revolt against Roman rule, but was killed in a battle in Bethar in Judean Hills. Subsequently the Romans decimated the Jewish community, renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and

Judea as Palaestina to obliterate Jewish identification with the Land of Israel (the word Palestine, and the Arabic word Filastin originate from this Latin name).The remaining Jewish community moved to northern towns in the Galilee.

611: Mohammed begins receiving the Quran which is a revision of the Hebrew & Messianic Scriptures making the Arabs the focal point instead of Israel; ultimate replacement theology.

622 24-Sep: In the Hegira Muhammed left Mecca for Medina (aka Yathrib) with 75 followers. This event marked the beginning of the Islamic lunar calendar. The new faith was called "Islam," which means submission to Allah. Believers in Islam are called Muslims-- "Those who submit to Allah's will." In Medina Mohammad tried to unite the Jews and Arabs and initially faced Jerusalem to pray. The Jewish leaders did not accept Mohammad as a prophet and so Mohammad expelled from the city the Jews who opposed him. From then on he commanded the Muslims to face the Kaaba in Mecca when praying.

630: Mohammad raised an army of 10,000 killed all the Jews that did not leave Medina and took over Mecca. He immediately set out to destroy all the idols at Kaaba. The black stone remained embedded in the corner. The area around became the first mosque, or Muslim house of worship.

632: Muhammed, the founder of Islam and unifier of Arabia & killer of Arabian Jews, died. His companions compiled his words and deeds in a work called the Sunna. Here are contained the rules for Islam.  One of the last things he said was a prophecy. This prophecy in fact is documented in Mohammed's Book of Traditions which states the following: "The Day of Judgment shall not come to pass until a tribe of Muslims defeat a tribe of Jews".

When Mohammed was asked of the place this will take place he said: "In Jerusalem and the surrounding nations".

636-1099: Arab Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd el-Malik on the grounds of the destroyed Jewish Temple so as to obliterate any memory of a Hebrew Temple.

644-656: The Quran is written years after Mohammed dies.

1095-1270: Catholic Crusades invade the Holy Land with motto: “Kill a Jew for Jesus!”  This is the birth of Terrorism.

1516-1918: Turkish Ottoman Empire under the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent

1520-1566: The Turks rebuild the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem causing the population of the Jewish community in Jerusalem to increase.

1881: Economic and political instability and pogroms shake Eastern Europe. Some Jews go to Palestine but 2.5 million-move west, 2.0 million to the US by World War I.

1894-1906: Dreyfus Affair in France exposes deep anti-Semitism. Trial is covered by Viennese journalist Theodor Herzl.

1895:

The total population of Palestine is approximately 500,000. Of this population, around 47,000 are Jews, some of which are part of the indigenous population and the remainder of which represents small groups which had immigrated to Palestine for purely religious reasons.

1896:

Theodore Hertzl, founder of the Zionist movement, writes in Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) that “the idea which I have developed in this pamphlet is a very old one: it is the restoration of the Jewish state.” Hertzl mentions Palestine and Argentina as possible sites.

1897:

The 1st Zionist Congress is held in Basle, Switzerland, and declares that the goal of Zionism is to “create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law.” The Congress also decides to establish the World Zionist Organization (WZO).

1915-1916:

Correspondences are exchanged between Sir Henry McMahon, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sherif Hussain, the Emir of Mecca, in which the Sherif demands the “independence of Arab countries”, specifying in detail the boundaries of the territories under Ottoman rule, which clearly included Palestine. McMahon confirms that “Great Britain is prepared to recognize and support the independence of the Arabs in all the regions within the limits demanded by the Sherif of Mecca.”

1916:

Negotiations between Britain, France, Russia, and later Italy, lead to the secret Sikes-Picot Agreement on the allocation of Ottoman Arab territories to spheres of influence of the European Powers. Since sites sacred to the three world religions are located there, an international regime is initially envisaged for Palestine.

1917:

A declaration is issued by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Arthur James Balfour, in a letter dated 2 November and addressed to Lord Rothchild, stating that “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” The Declaration is approved by the Cabinet.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, leader of the Zionist movement, is critical in influencing the drafting of the Balfour Declaration. He is successful in stirring up Zionist support by spreading the slogan “A land without people for a people without a land.”

Palestine was conquered by General Edmund Allenby and the British Army in 1917. Britain begins governing Palestine as an occupying Power with a de facto administration in the form of a military government in December.

1918:

The British government, in a special message to Sherif Hussain, states that ‘the Entente powers are determined that the Arab race shall be given full opportunity of once again forming a nation in the world . . . so far as Palestine is concerned, we are determined that no people shall be subject to another.”

1919:

Allied powers convene the Paris Peace Conference and decide to bring the territories ruled by the Ottoman Empire under the Mandate System introduced by the Covenant of the League of Nations, signed on 28 June as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Article 22 of the Covenant, which establishes the Mandate System, considers the Arab lands as class “A” mandates and states that: “Certain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish Empire have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able to stand alone. The wishes of these communities must be a principle consideration in the selection of the Mandatory.”

President Woodrow Wilson declares that “one of the fundamental principles to which the United States of America adheres is the consent of the governed.” This leads to the King-Crane Commission, whose jurisdiction includes Palestine. Its findings receive little attention and, in any case, become moot with the US decision to stay out of the League of Nations.

1920:

The San Remo Conference convenes on 25 April and the Allied Supreme Council decides, as a compromise, that Palestine, which under the Sikes-Picot agreement had been destined for international administration, will pass into British tutelage. The decision is taken without any heed to the requirements of article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

Soon after World War I ends, large-scale immigration of Jews from Europe starts under the aegis of the Balfour Declaration. This leads to anti-Jewish riots by Palestinians, just as the San Remo Conference finalizes the location of the Palestine mandate to be Great Britain.

Soon after World War I ends, large-scale immigration of Jews from Europe starts under the aegis of the Balfour Declaration. This leads to anti-Jewish riots by Palestinians, just as the San Remo Conference finalizes the location of the Palestine mandate to be Great Britain.

1921:

Within a year of Palestine’s coming under British civil administration, riots again break out, this time in Jaffa in May, resulting in 95 dead and 220 injured.

1922:

The British government issues a statement on 1 July referred to as the “Churchill Memorandum” which disclaims “wholly Jewish Palestine” or, to effect “the subordination of the Arab population, language or culture in Palestine” but at the same time makes it clear that the Balfour Declaration is not susceptible to change, which means a continued increase of the Jewish community through immigration.

The text of the mandate is approved by the League of Nations on 24 July. The mandate incorporates the Balfour Declaration and recognizes the “historic connection of the Jewish people with Palestine” as the grounds for reconstituting their national home in Palestine.

The Council of the League of Nations, on 16 September, passes a resolution effectively approving a separate administration for Transjordan. Palestine and Jordan were included in the same mandate but were treated as distinct territories.

1923:

The renunciation of Turkish claims over non-Turkish territories of the Ottoman Empire is formalized in the Treaty of Lausanne. The British mandate acquires jurisdiction de jure over Palestine.

1929:

Palestinian resentment against the denial of their inherent right of national self-determination, and against the colonization of their land by non-Palestinians, breaks out into violence in August, sparked by a dispute over the wall of “al-Buraq” (the Wailing Wall).

By the end of the decade, around 100,000 Jewish immigrants enter Palestine, reaching a peak in 1924-1926 and later declining.

Mohammed Abdel Rauf al Qudwa al Husseini was born in Cairo Egypt in 1929 of Egyptian parents. He adopted the name Yasser Arafat meaning 'Great Beheader' adding ABU AMAR after a companion of Muslim False Prophet, Mohammed   He is a practising Muslim, has performed the Haj to Mecca and wears a pendant engraved with a verse from the Quran.

“Let us consider Yassir Arafat, so carefully cleaned up by the West, particularly by the Clintons, from a well-documented Terrorist into a diplomat and world statesman. Yassir Arafat also claimed to be born in Jerusalem but was actually born in Cairo, August 29, 1929, named Mohammed Abdel Rahman al Qudwa al-Husseini. Nor as he has claimed, is he related to the late Grand Mufti of Jerusalem  (Amin al-Husseini) or Faisel Husseini or any other Husseini clan of Jersalem.  There are 4 Husseini clans in the Land of Israel, none related. The Grand Mufti spent World War II in Berlin, urging Hitler to bring his killing machine to kill the Palestinian Jews to cleanse the land of Jews for the Arab people and Islam.  Arafat learned from the Mufti about the politics of Arab nationalism in Palestine during that brief period. Clearly, Arafat desperately wanted to emulate the Grand Mufti and so invented his lineage, completing the fabrication.”  (Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator, September 2, 1999)

1930:

Great Britain issues a new statement of policy entitled the Passfield-White Paper on October 30. The paper asserts that “equal weight shall at all times be given to the obligations laid down with regard to the two sections of the population and to reconcile those two obligations where, inevitably, conflicting interests are involved.”

1931:

A letter (McDonald Letter) by the British Prime Minister addressed to Weizman makes it clear that Palestine would be governed in accordance with the Churchill Policy of 1922 and that restrictions by Lord Passfield on Jewish immigration and land transfers would not be applied.

1933:

Nazi persecution of Jews in Europe leads to a surge in the number of Jewish immigrants from Europe to Palestine.

• Palestinians react to the huge influx of immigrants, with clashes erupting mainly in Jerusalem and Jaffa, resulting in considerable casualties, although not as heavy as those of 1929.

1936:

Palestinian resistance to foreign rule and foreign colonization breaks out into a major rebellion that virtually lasts until the outbreak of World War II.

• In April, a new union of Palestinian political parties is formed- the Arab Higher Committee, headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Al Haj Amin Husseini. The Committee calls for a general strike to support Palestinian demands for the formation of a national government. The strike continues for six months, during which attacks on British troops and posts, as well as on Jewish settlements, take place.

• The Jewish side conducts its own campaign of attacks and retaliation, the principle vehicle being the Haganah, a covert illegal para-military force formed during the early mandate years. Other Jewish military organizations are also active, such as the Irgun Tzeva’I Leumi and the “special night forces” (trained by a British officer).

• At the same time, oppressive measures are escalated by the British. Large parts of the town of Jaffa are demolished, the Arab Higher Committee is proscribed and military courts are established, handing out 58 death sentences by the end of 1938.

1937:

A British Royal Commission is established to investigate the “disturbances” and it presents the Peel Report. It recognizes the justice of the demands by the Palestinian people for independence and acknowledges that, contrary to the previous official position, the “dual obligations” undertaken by the British government were not reconcilable. The Commission recommends, in Solomonian fashion, the partition of Palestine.

1936-1939 Arab Revolt led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini. Hundreds of Arabs and Jews killed. Husseini fled to Iraq and then to Nazi Germany.

1939:

The London Conference is held from February through March and develops into parallel but separate Anglo-Arab and Anglo-Jewish conferences, since the Arabs refuse to recognize the Jewish Agency. They insist on the inherent right of Palestinians to their independence while the Jews insist on achieving a Jewish state.

• In May, the McDonald White Paper is issued, disclaiming any intention to create a Jewish state and rejecting Arab demands that Palestine become an independent Arab state. Instead, it envisages the termination of the mandate by 1949, with Palestine becoming an independent Arab state with a shared Palestinian-Jewish government. The paper also stipulates that immigration would end after another 75,000 immigrants were admitted over a period of five years, and that British government would strictly regulate the transfer of land.

• Within the decade of the 1930’s, Palestine receives approximately 232,000 Jewish immigrants. The Jewish population in 1939 numbers over 445,000 out of a total population of about 1.5 million, nearly 30% as compared to the less than 10% twenty years earlier. Similarly, by 1939, Jewish land holdings had risen by four-times to almost 1.5 million dunums of the total area of 26 million dunums.

1940:

In February, the Palestine Authorities issues the land transfer regulations, dividing Palestine into 3 zones. In the largest of those zones, the transfer of land to a person who is not a Palestinian Arab is prohibited.

• The Palestinian Rebellion, the Royal Commission’s report and the 1939 White Paper’s policies all combine to constitute a series of setbacks to the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. The general Zionist response includes illegal Jewish immigration, terrorism, and attempts to obtain support from the United States.

1942:

A small group of Zionist extremists (the Stern group) commits a series of politically motivated murders and robberies in the Tel Aviv area.

• In May, the Jewish Agency executive meeting in New York makes public what is known as the Biltmore Program, the longstanding aim of which is the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine through unlimited immigration.

1944:

The British High Commissioner narrowly escapes death in an ambush outside of Jerusalem. Three months later, on 6 November, the British Minister of State in the Middle East is assassinated in Cairo. The two actions are committed by the Stern terrorist group.

1945:

Zionist pressure in the U.S. increases with the involvement of Congressmen, and President Harry Truman calls upon the British government to open up the gates of Palestine to an additional 100,000 homeless European Jews.

1946:

A 12-member Anglo-American Inquiry Committee begins its work in January for 3 months. The Committee rejects the idea of early independence for Palestine, whether partitioned or unified, and proposes instead that Palestine become a United Nations Trusteeship, pending which the mandate would continue. Among the immediate measures the committee recommends is the rescinding of the 1940 land transfer regulations and the immediate issuance of 100,000 immigration permits. However, the British government states that it cannot accept the recommendations immediately and instead would examine them further.

On 22 July, the campaign conducted by Zionist terrorist organizations reaches a new climax with the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The explosion destroys a wing of the hotel housing the offices of the British government secretariat, as well as part of the military headquarters, and kills 86 people. In general, there is some evidence of involvement by the Jewish Agency in similar terrorist actions, including the engagement of the Haganah and the Palmach in carefully planned acts of sabotage and violence under the guise of the Jewish resistance movement.

1947:

UN Special Commission on Palestine recommends dividing Palestine into 2 states, one Jewish and one Arab

1948:

Britain withdraws from Palestine; Israel declares Independence; full-scale war erupts between Israel and its Arab neighbors, led by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq

Jan 1, 1952 - Seven armed terrorists attacked and killed a nineteen year-old girl in her home, in the neighborhood of Beit Yisrael, in Jerusalem.

Apr 14, 1953 - Terrorists tried for the first time to infiltrate Israel by sea, but were unsuccessful. One of the boats was intercepted and the other boat escaped.

June 7, 1953 - A youngster was killed and three others were wounded, in shooting attacks on residential areas in southern Jerusalem.

June 9, 1953 - Terrorists attacked a farming community near Lod, and killed one of the residents. The terrorists threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions. On the same night, another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera. This occurred a day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory.

June 10, 1953 - Terrorists infiltrating from Jordan destroyed a house in the farming village of Mishmar Ayalon.

June 11, 1953 - Terrorists attacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess, and shot them to death.

Sept 2, 1953 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and reached the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heart of Jerusalem. They threw hand grenades in all directions. Miraculously, no one was hurt.

Mar 17, 1954- Terrorists ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Maale Akrabim in the northern Negev. In the initial ambush, the terrorists killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The terrorists then boarded the bus, and shot each passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers were murdered. Survivors recounted how the murderers spat on the bodies and abused them. The terrorists could clearly be traced back to the Jordanian border, some 20 km from the site of the terrorist attack.

Jan 2, 1955 - Terrorists killed two hikers in the Judean Desert.

Mar 24, 1955 - Terrorists threw hand grenades and opened fire on a crowd at a wedding in the farming community of Patish, in the Negev. A young woman was killed, and eighteen people were wounded in the attack.

1956:

Apr 7, 1956 - A resident of Ashkelon was killed in her home, when terrorists threw three hand grenades into her house.

Two members of Kibbutz Givat Chaim were killed, when terrorists opened fire on their car, on the road from Plugot Junction to Mishmar Hanegev.

There were further hand grenade and shooting attacks on homes and cars, in areas such as Nitzanim and Ketziot. One person was killed and three others wounded.

Apr 11, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire on a synagogue full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Shafrir. Three children and a youth worker were killed on the spot, and five were wounded, including three seriously.

Apr 29, 1956 - Egyptians killed Roi Rotenberg, 21 years of age, from Nahal Oz.

Sept 12, 1956 - Terrorists killed three Druze guards at Ein Ofarim, in the Arava region.

Sept 23, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire from a Jordanian position, and killed four archaeologists, and wounded sixteen others, near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.

Sept 24, 1956 - Terrorists killed a girl in the fields of the farming community of Aminadav, near Jerusalem.

Oct 4, 1956 - Five Israeli workers were killed in Sdom.

Oct 9, 1956 - Two workers were killed in an orchard of the youth village, Neve Hadassah, in the Sharon region.

Oct. 29, 1956 Suez Campaign. In retaliation for a series of escalating border raids as well as the closure of the straits of Tiran and Suez canal to Israeli shipping, and to prevent Egyptian use of newly acquired Soviet arms in a war, Israel invades the Sinai peninsula and occupies it for several months, with French and British backing. Israel withdraws after a UN peace keeping force is placed in Sinai, and US guarantees right of passage for Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran.  US condemns their allies and forces their retreat. UN force set up in Sinai Peninsula to prevent further attacks

Nov 8, 1956 - Terrorists opened fire on a train, attacked cars and blew up wells, in the North and Center of Israel. Six Israelis were wounded.

Feb 18, 1957 - Two civilians were killed by terrorist landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip.

Mar 8, 1957 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Beit Govrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the Kibbutz.

Apr 16, 1957 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and killed two guards at Kibbutz Mesilot.

May 20, 1957 - A terrorist opened fire on a truck in the Arava region, killing a worker.

May 29, 1957 - A tractor driver was killed and two others wounded, when the vehicle struck a landmine, next to Kibbutz Kisufim.

June 23, 1957 - Israelis were wounded by landmines, close to the Gaza Strip.

Aug 23, 1957 - Two guards of the Israeli Mekorot water company were killed near Kibbutz Beit Govrin.

Dec 21, 1957 - A member of Kibbutz Gadot was killed in the Kibbutz fields.

Feb 11, 1958 - Terrorists killed a resident of Moshav Yanov who was on his way to Kfar Yona, in the Sharon area.

Apr 5, 1958 - Terrorists lying in ambush shot and killed two people near Tel Lachish.

Apr 22, 1958 - Jordanian soldiers shot and killed two fishermen near Aqaba.

May 26, 1958 - Four Israeli police officers were killed in a Jordanian attack on Mt. Scopus, in Jerusalem.

Nov 17, 1958 - Syrian terrorists killed the wife of the British air attaché in Israel, who was staying at the guesthouse of the Italian Convent on the Mt. of the Beatitudes.

Dec 3, 1958- A shepherd was killed at Kibbutz Gonen. In the artillery attack that followed, 31 civilians were wounded.

Jan 23, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan was killed.

Feb 1, 1959 - Three civilians were killed by a terrorist landmine near Moshav Zavdiel.

Apr 15, 1959 - A guard was killed at Kibbutz Ramat Rahel.

Apr 27, 1959 - Two hikers were shot at close range and killed near Massada.

Sept 6, 1959 - Bedouin terrorists killed a paratroop reconnaissance officer near Nitzana.

Sept 8, 1959 - Bedouins opened fire on an army bivouac in the Negev, killing an IDF officer, Captain Yair Peled.

Oct 3, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Heftziba was killed near Kibbutz Yad Hana.

Apr 26, 1960 - Terrorists killed a resident of Ashkelon south of the city.

Apr 12, 1962 - Terrorists fired on an Egged bus on the way to Eilat; one passenger was wounded.

Sept 30, 1962 - Two terrorists attacked an Egged bus on the way to Eilat. No one was wounded.

Jan 1, 1965 - Palestinian terrorists attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier. This was the first attack carried out by the PLO's Fatah faction.

May 31, 1965 - Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.

June 1, 1965 - Terrorists attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftach.

July 5, 1965 - A Fatah cell planted explosives at Mitzpe Massua, near Beit Guvrin; and on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem near Kafr Battir.

Aug 26, 1965 - A waterline was sabotaged at Kibbutz Manara, in the Upper Galilee.

Sept 29, 1965 - A terrorist was killed as he attempted to attack Moshav Amatzia.

Nov 7, 1965 - A Fatah cell that infiltrated from Jordan blew up a house in Moshav Givat Yeshayahu, south of Beit Shemesh. The house was destroyed, but the inhabitants were miraculously unhurt.

Apr 25, 1966 - Explosions placed by terrorists wounded two civilians and damaged three houses in Moshav Beit Yosef, in the Beit Shean Valley.

May 16, 1966 - Two Israelis were killed when their jeep hit a terrorist landmine, north of the Sea of Galilee and south of Almagor. Tracks led into Syria.

July 13, 1966 - Two soldiers and a civilian were killed near Almagor, when their truck struck a terrorist landmine.

July 14, 1966 - Terrorists attacked a house in Kfar Yuval, in the North.

July 19, 1966 - Terrorists infiltrated into Moshav Margaliot on the northern border and planted nine explosive charges.

Oct 27, 1966 - A civilian was wounded by an explosive charge on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem.

1967:

Egypt orders UN force out of Sinai; Israel invades as a "pre-emptive" strike and occupies Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula (from Egypt), Golan Heights (from Syria) and West Bank and East Jerusalem (from Jordan). UN Resolution 242 calls upon Israel to "withdraw from territories occupied in recent hostilities" and calls for peaceful coexistence between all states in the region.

1969: Arafat, Yasir, Palestinian terrorist commando and political leader.  Head of the guerrilla group Al Fatah, he became leader of the PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (PLO).   When taking the position he said, "This is my city ... This is where I was born." But he was not born in Jerusalem, not even - as some of his comrades claimed - in the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, but in Cairo in 1929, the fifth of seven children of a Palestinian merchant called Abdul Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini who was killed fighting the Israelis 20 years later.

1973:

Oct. 6, Yom Kippur War (October War) In a surprise attack on the Jewish day of atonement, Egypt retook the Suez canal and a narrow zone on the other side. Syria reconquered the Golan Heights. Following massive US and Soviet resupplying of the sides, Israel succeeded in pushing back the Syrians and threatening Damascus. Ariel Sharon crossed the Suez Canal and cuts off the Egyptian Third Army. UN Resolution 338 reiterates 242.

1977:

Sadat visits Jerusalem, addresses Israeli Knesset.

1978:

Jimmy Carter mediates Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel; Israel invades southern Lebanon.

1979:

Sadat signs peace treaty with Menachem Begin; Arab League kicks Egypt out of its organization

1980:

Israel annexes East Jerusalem.

1981:

Oct. 6,  Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated while on the reviewing stand of a victory parade,

Mubarak assumes presidency.

1982:

Israel completes withdrawal from Sinai. Israel launches full-scale invasion of Lebanon, bombs Beirut in attempt to force PLO out of Lebanon.

Summer,  Foundation of the Lebanese Shi’ite Hizbulla Islamist terror group.

Aug. 22,  PLO evacuation of Beirut.

Sept. 14,  Lebanese President Bashir Jemayeel assassinated by Syrian intelligence.

Sept. 16-17,  Lebanese Christian Phalange units, allowed by Israeli forces to enter the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla, massacre between 400 and 800 Palestinian civilians.

1983:

• April: Beirut, U.S. Embassy Suicide car bomb 63 killed Radical Shiite Muslim group takes credit.
• October: Beirut, U.S. Marine barracks Bomb 241 killed by the Lebanese Party of God faction.
• December: Kuwait City, U.S. Embassy Suicide truck bomb Six killed; dozens injured 17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted.

1984:

• September: Beirut, U.S. embassy Suicide car bomb 16 killed Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.

1985:

• June: TWA flight 847 Hijacking to Beirut One killed by the Lebanese Party of God faction.
• October: Egyptian coast, Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro Hostage situation One crippled Jewish man ,killed Palestine Liberation Front take responsibility.
• November: Egypt Air flight 648 Hijacking to Malta 60 killed by the Abu Nidal's Arab Revolutionary Command.

1986:

• April: West Berlin night club a Bomb explodes, three killed, arrested are a Libyan diplomat, two Palestinians and two Germans.
• Rome to Athens TWA flight Bomb Four killed by Mohammed Rashid, Palestinian terrorist, members of Iraqi backed May 15 organization.

1987: The Palestinian intifada (uprising) begins.

• February: Southern Lebanon Kidnapping One U.S. Marine executed by the Lebanese Party of God.
• November: Rabbi Miller goes to Israel speaks to Palestinian Christians is shocked at their anti-israelism.

1988: PLO recognizes Israel, renounces terrorism, accepts UN resolutions 242 and 338; US establishes limited dialogue with PLO.

Jan. 1988 Foundation of the Hamas Islamic Brotherhood. Hamas published their Charter in August 1988, based on the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and advocating destruction of Israel.

Nov. 15, 1988 Palestine National Council of the PLO declare a Palestinian state in absentia, recognizing UN resolutions 181 and 242, and implicitly recognizing Israel.

December 1988: Lockerbie, Scotland, Pan Am flight 103 Bomb 270 killed by Libyan intelligence agents.

1989:

May 14, 1989: Israeli Peace Plan, calls for a negotiating process with the Palestinians very similar to the one actually implemented by the Oslo accords.

1990: US ends dialogue with PLO after Arafat failed to condemn an unsuccessful Palestinian attack against Israeli civilians.

Gulf War begins on the 9^th of Av with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; Arafat sides with Iraq

1991: US-led coalition defeats Saddam’s army in February at Purim.

• October 30: President George Bush Sr. opens the Madrid Conference with an initiative for a Middle East peace plan involving Israel's land. On the same day, an extremely rare storm forms off the coast of Nova Scotia. (It was eventually tagged "The Perfect Storm," and a book and movie were made about it.) Record setting 100-foot waves form at sea and pound the New England Coast, even causing heavy- damage to President Bush's home in Kennebunkport, Maine.

1992: Labor-led coalition government elected in Israel; Yitzhak Rabin is Prime Minister

• August 23: The Madrid Conference moves to Washington DC and the peace talks resume, lasting four days. On that same day, Hurricane Andrew - the worst natural disaster ever to hit America - produces an estimated $30 billion in damage and leaves 180,000 homeless in Florida

1993:

• January - August: Norway hosts series of secret talks between the PLO and the Israeli Government
• Sept. 13, 1993 Oslo Declaration of Principles - Israel and PLO agree to mutual recognition, Yasser Arafat and PLO will be allowed to return to Gaza. PLO and Palestinian leadership renounce violence and use of terrorism, and agree to revise the PLO charter to remove chapters referring to destruction of Israel. Over the next, years, Israel withdraws from a small area (Area A) that is given to Palestinian sovereignty, a larger area (Area B) is given to Palestinian civil control only, while a third area of the West Bank and Gaza strip remains under total Israeli control. Israel does not dismantle any settlements, and the number of settlers and new settlements increases considerably.
• September 14: Jordan and Israel sign statement of principles on peace
• Sep 24 93 Yigal Vaknin was stabbed to death in an orchard near the trailer home where he lived near the village of Basra. A squad of the HAMAS' Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Oct 9 93 Dror Forer and Aran Bachar were murdered by terrorists in Wadi Kelt in the Judean Desert. The Popular Front and the Islamic Jihad 'Al-Aqsa Squads' each publicly claimed responsibility.
• Oct 24 93 Two IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.) Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23, were killed by a HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squad. The two entered a Subaru with Israeli license plates outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose passengers were apparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, the soldiers were shot at close range and killed. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Oct 29 93 Chaim Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El, was kidnapped by three terrorists from a poultry farm near Ramallah. He was murdered and his body burned. Three Fatah members were convicted of the murder on July 27, 1994.
• Nov 7 93 Efraim Ayubi of Kfar Darom, Rabbi Chaim Druckman's personal driver, was shot to death by terrorists near Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the murder.
• Nov 9 93 Salman 'Id el-Hawashla, age 38, an Israeli Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe who was driving a car with Israeli plates, was killed by three armed men driving a truck hijacked from the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate head-on collision.
• Nov 17 93 Sgt. 1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37, was stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while seated at the cafeteria at the Nahal Oz road block at the entrance to the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the murder.
• Dec 1 93 Shalva Ozana, age 23, and Yitzhak Weinstock, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists from a moving vehicle, while parked on the side of the road to Ramallah because of engine trouble. Weinstock died of his wounds the following morning. Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in retaliation for the killing by Israeli forces of Imad Akel, a wanted HAMAS leader in Gaza.
• Dec 5 93 David Mashrati, a reserve soldier, was shot and killed by a terrorist attempting to board a bus on route 641 at the Holon junction. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Dec 6 93 Mordechai Lapid and his son Shalom Lapid, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists near Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.
• December 13: Target date passes for beginning of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho.
• Dec 22 93 Eliahu Levin and Meir Mendelovitch were killed by shots fired at their car from a passing vehicle in the Ramallah area. HAMAS claimed responsibility.
• Dec 23 93 Anatoly Kolisnikov, an Ashdod resident employed as a relief watchman at a construction site there, was stabbed to death while on duty.
• Dec 31 93 Chaim Weizman and David Bizi were found murdered in a Ramle apartment. ID cards of two Gaza residents were found in the apartment, together with a leaflet of the Popular Front 'Red Eagle' group, claiming responsibility for the murder.
• Dec 24 93 Lieut.Col. Meir Mintz, commander of the IDF special forces in the Gaza area, was shot and killed by terrorists in an ambush on his jeep at the T-junction in Gaza. The HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squads publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.

1994:

• Jan 12 94 Moshe Becker of Rishon Le-Zion was stabbed to death by three Palestinian employees while working in his orchard. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the murder.
• Jan 14 94 Grigory Ivanov was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the industrial zone at the Erez junction, near the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
• January 16: President Clinton meets with Syria's President Hafez el-Assad in Geneva. They talk about a peace agreement with Israel that includes giving up the Golan Heights. Less than 24 hours later, a powerful 6.9 earthquake rocks Southern California, This quake, centered in Northridge, is the second most destructive natural disaster to hit the United States, behind Hurricane Andrew,
• Feb 9 94 Ilan Sudri, a taxi driver, was kidnapped and murdered while returning home from work. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group sent a message to the news agencies claiming responsibility for the murder.
• Islamic Jihad is a much smaller, less organized group of Islamist radicals with closer ties to Iran. Unlike Hamas, it has no network of schools, clinics, or mosques, and it focuses entirely on terrorism. Islamic Jihad’s founder, Fathi Shikaki, was killed by Israeli agents in 1995 in Malta, and its nominal leader, Ramadan Shallah, now lives in Damascus, Syria.
• Feb 10 94 Naftali Sahar, a citrus grower, was murdered by blows to his head. His body was found in his orchard near Kibbutz Na'an.
• Feb 13 94 Noam Cohen, age 28, member of the General Security Service, was shot and killed in an ambush on his car. Two of his colleagues who were also in the vehicle suffered moderate injuries. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
• What is Hamas? Hamas is the Palestinians’ major Muslim fundamentalist movement. With an extensive social service network and a terrorist wing that plots suicide bombings in Israel, it is the main opposition to Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority and a determined foe of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In Arabic, the word “hamas” means zeal. But it’s also an Arabic acronym for “Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya,” or Islamic Resistance Movement.
• Feb 17 94 Yuval Golan, stabbed on December 29, 1993 by a terrorist near Adarim in the Hebron area, died of his wounds.
• Feb 19 94 Zipora Sasson, resident of Ariel and five months pregnant, was killed on the trans-Samaria highway in an ambush by shots fired at her car. The terrorists were members of HAMAS.
• Feb 25 94 Sam Eisenstadt, age 80, was assaulted with an axe in the center of Kfar Saba. He died of his wounds shortly afterwards.
• February 25: An American-born Jewish settler massacres 29 Palestinians praying at Haram al-Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron.
• Mar 23 94 Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices in East Jerusalem, was shot and killed near Damascus Gate on his way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Mar 29 94 Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70 of Petah Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds. The murderers, apprehended the next day, stated that they carried out the attack in order to clear themselves of suspected collaboration with the Israeli authorities.
• Mar 31 94 Yosef Zandani, age 28 of Bnei Ayish, near Gedera, was found murdered in his apartment. Near the body was a leaflet of the DFLP "Red Star", explaining that the murder was carried out in revenge for the shooting of one of its members by an Israeli citizen. The Israeli acted in self-defense.
• Apr 6 94 Asher Attia, 48, of Afula, bus driver; Vered Mordechai, 13, of Afula; Maya Elharar, 17, of Afula; Ilana Schreiber, 45, a teacher from Kibbutz Nir David; Meirav Ben-Moshe, 16, of Afula; Ayala Vahaba, 40, a teacher from Afula; and Fadiya Shalabi, 25, of Iksal were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula, northern Israel. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Ahuva Cohen Onalla, 37, wounded in the attack, died of her wounds on April 25.
• Apr 7 94 Yishai Gadassi, age 32 of Kvutzat Yavne, was shot and killed at a hitchhiking post at the Ashdod junction by a member of HAMAS. The terrorist was killed by bystanders at the scene.
• Apr 13 94 Rahamim Mazgauker, 34, of Hadera; David Moyal, 26 of Ramat Gan, an Egged mechanic; Daga Perda, 44, who immigrated from Ethiopia in 1991; Bilha Butin, 49, of Hadera; and Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, 19, of Ir Ovot in the Arava were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Apr 21 94 The body of officer cadet Shahar Simani, 20, of Ashkelon, was found stabbed to death near the roadside at the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem. He had been kidnapped while hitchhiking in the south.
• May 4: Gaza-Jericho agreement signed in Cairo. “Palestinian Authority” (PA) is created with Arafat as its head. May 4, 1999 set as deadline for permanent resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
• May 13: Israel hands over control of Jericho to PA/PLO.
• May 17 94 Rafael Yairi (Klumfenbert), 36, of Kiryat Arba, and Margalit Ruth Shohat, 48, of Ma'ale Levona, were killed when their car was fired upon by terrorists in a passing car near Beit Haggai, south of Hebron.
• May 18: Israel hands over control of Gaza to PA/PLO; Israeli troops remain around Jewish settlements
• May 20 94 Staff Sgt. Moshe Bukra, 30, and Cpl. Erez Ben-Baruch, 24, were shot dead by HAMAS terrorists at a roadblock one kilometer south of the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip.
• July 1: Arafat arrives in Gaza.
• Jul 7 94 Sarit Prigal, 17, was shot to death when terrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.
• Jul 7 94 The body of Arye Frankenthal, 20, from Moshav Gimzo near Lod, who had left his base in the south the previous day, was found stabbed and shot near the Arab village of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah.
• Jul 19 94 Lt. Guy Ovadia, 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata, was fatally wounded in an ambush near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility for the attack, saying it was "a response to the massacre at the Erez checkpoint".
• July 25: Rabin and King Hussein sign Washington Declaration ending state of war between Israel and Jordan.
• Jul 25 94 Border policeman Sgt.-Maj. Jacques Attias, 24, died of his wounds after being shot by Palestinian policemen during the riots at Erez checkpoint on July 17.
• Aug 2 94 Yoram Sakuri, 30, of Kiryat Netafim in Samaria, died of stab wounds suffered when a terrorist broke into his home on July 1st.
• August 14: Hamas gunman kills 1 Israeli and wounds 6 in Gaza. Ron Soval, 18, of Lehavim, north of Beersheba, was shot to death in an ambush near Kissufim junction in the Gaza Strip.
• Aug 26 94 Shlomo Kapach, 22, of Holon and Gil Revah, 21, of Bat Yam, elevator technicians, were murdered at a Ramle building site. Israel has requested the extradition of the suspected killers from the Palestinian Authority.
• August 29: Israel and the PLO sign the “Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities” (Early Empowerment)
• September 3: 200 released Palestinian prisoners clash with Palestinian police in Jericho.
• Sep 4 94 Sgt. Victor Shichman, 24, was killed at the Morag junction in the southern Gaza Strip while on patrol, from shots fired from a vehicle bearing Palestinian license plates.
• September 9: Paris meeting of donor countries canceled due to Israel-PLO disagreement on aid projects in East Jerusalem.
• September 25: Rabin and Arafat meet to discuss elections and redeployment of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
• Sep 94 Natasha Ivanov, 32, of Ashdod was strangled to death. In March 2001, a Palestinian arrested for being in Israel illegally, admitted to carrying out the murder in order to gain acceptance into a terrorist organization.
• Oct 9 94 Ma'ayan Levy, 19, an off-duty soldier from Moshav Beit Zayit and Samir Mugrabi, 35, from Kafr Akab, in north Jerusalem, were killed in a terrorist attack in the Nahalat Shiva section of downtown Jerusalem. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
• October 11: Israel suspends all negotiations with PLO after Hamas holds an IDF soldier hostage.
• Oct 14 94 Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman, 20, who had been abducted by HAMAS, was murdered by his captors. Capt. Nir Poraz, 23, was killed in the course of the unsuccessful IDF rescue operation to obtain his release.
• October 19: Hamas suicide bomber blows up bus in Tel Aviv, 23 killed, 48 wounded. In the suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed: Haviv Tishbi, 54, of Tel Aviv; Moshe Gardinger, 83, of Tel Aviv; Pnina Rapaport, 74, of Tel Aviv; Galit Rosen, 23, of Holon; Zippora Ariel, 64, of Tel Aviv; David Lida, 74, of Tel Aviv; Puah Yedgar, 56, of Givatayim; Dalia Ashkenazi, 62, of Tel; Aviv Esther Sharon, 21, of Lod; Ofra Ben-Naim, 33, of Lod; Tamar Karlibach-Sapir, 24, of Moshav Zafaria; Shira Meroz-Kot, 20, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Miriam Adaf, 54, of Sderot; Anat Rosen, 21, of Ra'anana; Salah Ovadia, 52, of Holon; Eliahu Wasserman, 66, of Bat Yam; Alexandra Sapirstein, 55, of Holon; Dr. Pierre Atlas, 56, of Kiryat Ono; Ella Volkov, 21, of Safed; Ayelet Langer-Alkobi, 26, of Kibbutz Yiron; Kochava Biton, 59, of Tel Aviv; Reinier Verbiest, 25, of the Netherlands.
• October 26: Jordan and Israel sign peace treaty.
• Nov 11 94 Capt. Yehazkel Sapir, 36, of Kfar Sava; Lt. Yotam Rahat, 31, of Tel-Aviv; and Capt. Elad Dror, 24, of Kibbutz Nachson were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.
• November 18: 14 killed, 200 wounded when Palestinian police fire on 2,000 Hamas protesters in Gaza City.
• Nov 19 94 Sgt.-Maj. Gil Dadon, 26, of Bat Yam, was killed at the army post at Netzarim junction by shots fired from a passing car. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Nov 27 94 Rabbi Amiran Olami, 34, of Otniel was killed near Beit Hagai 10 kms south of Hebron by shots fired from a passing car.
• Nov 30 94 Sgt. Liat Gabai, 19, of Afula, was axed to death in the center of Afula.
• December 9: Rabin, Peres, and Arafat receive Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

1995

• Jan 6 95 Ofra Felix, 20, of Beit El, a university student, was killed when terrorists opened fire on her car north of Beit El.
• January 22: suicide bombing at Beit Lid Junction (bus stop) in Israel kills 22 Israelis; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility. Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 18 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed were: Lt. David Ben-Zino, 20, of Ashdod; Lt. Adi Rosen, 20, of Moshav Bitzaron; Lt. Yuval Tuvya, 22, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Anan Kadur, 24, of Daliat al-Carmel; Staff-Sgt. Damian Rosovski, 20, of Kadima; Staff-Sgt. Yehiel Sharvit, 21, of Haifa; Staff-Sgt. Yaron Blum, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Maya Kopstein, 19, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Daniel Tzikuashvili, 19, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Avi Salto, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Rafael Mizrahi, 19, of Ramat Gan; Sgt. Eran Gueta, 20, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Soli Mizrahi, 18, of Ramat Ramat Gan; Cpl. David Hasson, 18, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Amir Hirschenson, 18, of Jerusalem; Cpl. Gilad Gaon, 18, of Herzliya; Cpl. Ilie Dagan, 18, of Kochav Yair; Cpl. Eitan Peretz, 18, of Nahariya; and Shabtai Mahpud, 34, of Moshav Tnuvot.
• Lt. Eyal Levy, 20, of Ashdod, and Cpl. Yaniv Weiser, 18, of Givatayim, who were seriously wounded in the attacks, later died of their wounds.
• Feb 6 95 Yevgeny Gromov, 32, of Ashkelon, a security guard, was killed when terrorists opened fire from a passing car on the Gaza bypass road between Jabalya and Gaza City, as he was escorting a gasoline truck to a Gaza Strip filling station.
• Feb 13 95 Rafael Cohen, 35, of Jerusalem, a taxi driver, was fatally stabbed on the Jerusalem-Ma'aleh Adumim road.
• February 16: Rabin and Arafat meet at Erez checkpoint to discuss interim agreement.
• March 1995: Karachi, Pakistan, U.S. Consulate Murder Two American diplomats killed Possible retaliation for World Trade Center bombing conviction.
• Mar 19 95 Nahum Hoss, 32, of Hebron and Yehuda Fartush, 41, of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on an Egged bus near the entrance to Hebron.
• Mar 29 95 Police Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat from Makr village in Western Galilee were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.
• Apr 9 95 Staff-Sgt. Yuval Regev, 20, of Holon; Staff-Sgt. Meir Scheinwald, 20, of Safed; Sgt. Itai Diener, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Zvi Narbat, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Netta Sufrin, 20, of Rishon Lezion; Cpl. Tal Nir, 19, of Kibbutz Miflasim; Sgt. Avraham Arditi, 19, of Jerusalem; and Alisa Flatow, 20, of the United States were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• May 16: Israel and PA talks on expanding self-rule are held in Tel Aviv.
• May 31: PA-Israel talks in Cairo on expanding self-rule; discuss Palestinian elections and Israeli redeployment. Israel says East Jerusalem Palestinians can vote but must do so outside the city limits.
• June 1: IDF sets November 1 date for start of its withdrawal from West Bank; PA wanted elections by September
• June 17: PA rejects Israel redeployment deal that would divide West Bank into 3 zones.
• July 1: Arafat and Peres meet at Erez in unsuccessful attempt to reach an agreement before July 1 deadline passes.
• July 4: In Gaza, Arafat and Peres mark out principles for deal on West Bank self-rule.
• Jul 18 95 Ohad Bachrach, 18, of Beit El, and Ori Shahor, 20, of Ra'anana, were killed while hiking in Wadi Kelt.
• Jul 24 95 Moshe Shkedi, 75, of Ramat Gan; Rahel Tamari, 65, of Tel Aviv; Zviya Cohen, 62, of Tel Aviv; Zahava Oren, 60, of Tel Aviv; Nehama Lubowitz, 61, of Tel Aviv; and Mordechai Tovia, 37, of Tel Aviv were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.
• August 7: in Taba, Egypt, Arafat and Peres open round of talks on elections, redeployment and security.
• August 11: In Taba, initial draft of “partial agreement,” on expansion of self-rule created.
• August 21: A Palestinian detonates a bomb on a bus in Jerusalem killing himself and four others; Hamas claims responsibility. Rivka Cohen, 26, of Jerusalem; Hannah Naeh, 56, of Jerusalem; Joan Davenney, 46, of Connecticut; and Police Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman, 35, of Jerusalem were killed in the suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.
• August 27: Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign second stage of the “early empowerment agreement” (August 29, 1994) for West Bank.
• Sep 5 95 Daniel Frei, 28, of Ma'aleh Michmash, was stabbed to death when a terrorist broke into his home at night.
• September 16: Peres and Arafat meet in Taba to resolve deadlock over Hebron.
• September 24: Agreement on Palestinian Interim self-rule reached at Taba.
• September 28: The Oslo II (or Taba) accord is signed in Washington, D. C.
• November 4: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir; Shimon Peres becomes Prime Minister
• November: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, U.S. military headquarters Bombed Seven killed by Four anti-royal Saudi Arabian dissidents, possible connections to Party of God,  an Iranian is beheaded in Saudi Arabia for the crime.

1996 .

• 5 January, Yahya Ayyash, a leading member of the military wing of Hamas is assassinated by a rigged portable telephone in the Gaza Strip. It is believed that the Israeli security service "Shin Bet" was behind the killing.
• Palestinians hold their first free democratic elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on 20 January, voting for a President, as well as a 188-member Palestinian Legislative Council. Yasser Arafat is elected president by an overwhelming majority.
• Jan 16 96 Sgt. Yaniv Shimel and Major Oz Tibon, both of Jerusalem, were killed when terrorists fired on their car on the Hebron-Jerusalem road.
• Jan 30 96 Staff Sgt. Ehud Tal, 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim, was stabbed to death at the liaison office in an army camp south of Jenin.
• 25 February, two suicide-bombers blow themselves up, killing 25 Israelis and injuring 77 others. One explosion takes place in West Jerusalem and the other in the southern town of Ashkelon. A statement is issued by the "Students of the Engineer" claiming responsibility. In the suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers).
• The civilians: Daniel Biton, 42; Yitzhak Elbaz, 57, Boris Sharpolinsky, 64; Semion Trakashvili, 60; Yitzhak Yakhnis, 54; Peretz Gantz, 61; Anatoly and Jana Kushnirov, 36 and 37; Masuda Amar, 59; Swietlana Gelezniak, 32; Celine Zaguri, 19 - all of Jerusalem; Navon Shabo, 22, of Bnei Brak; Michael Yerigin, 16, of Kibbutz Maabarot; Matthew Eisenfeld, 25 and Sara Duker, 23, of the United States.
• Wael Kawasmeh, 23, of East Jerusalem, and Ira Yitzhak Weinstein, 53, of Maaleh Adumim, later died of their wounds.
• The soldiers: Sgt. Yonatan Barnea, 20; St-Sgt. Gavriel Krauss, 24; St.-Sgt. Gadi Shiloni, 22; Cpl. Moshe Reuven, 19; St.-Sgt. Maj. (res.) Arye Barashi, 39; Cpl. Iliya Nimotin, 19; Cpl. Merav Nahum, 19; Sgt. Sharon Hanuka, 19; Arik Gaby, 16 (student in pre-army boarding school) - all of Jerusalem.
• HAMAS also claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Two more suicide bombings occur, one in an Israeli bus in Jerusalem on 3 March, killing 19 people and injuring ten others, and another on 4 March in Tel Aviv, which kills 14 people and injures 130 others, bringing the nine-day death toll to 61. An armed wing of Hamas claims responsibility for the bombings.
• Sgt. Hofit Ayyash, 20, of Ashdod was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post outside Ashkelon. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Feb 26 96 Flora Yehiel, 28, of Kiryat Ata, was killed when a car was driven into a bus stop at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem. Mar 3 96 In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).
• The civilians: Maya Birkan, 59; Naima Zargary, 66; Gavriel Shamashvili, 43; Shemtov Sheikh, 63; Anna Shingeloff, 36; Raya Daushvili, 55; George Yonan, 38 - all of Jerusalem; Sarina Angel, 45, of Beit Jalla; Gidi Taspanish, 23, a tourist from Ethiopia; Valerian Krasyon, 44, a tourist from Romania; Dominic Lunca, 29; Daniel Patenka, 33; Marian Grefan, 40; Mirze Gifa, 39; Dimitru Kokarascu, 43 - all Romanian workers.
• Imar Ambrose, 51, of Romania, died on March
• 9.
• The soldiers: Sgt. Yoni Levy, 21, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Haim Amedi, 19, of Jerusalem; Senior NCO Uzi Cohen, 54, border policeman of Jerusalem.
• Mar 4 96 Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and 1 soldier):
• Bat-Hen Shahak, 15, of Tel Mond; Hadas Dror, 15, of Tel Mond; Kobi Zaharon, 13, of Tel Aviv; Inbar Atiya, 21, of Ramat-Efal; Dan Tversky, 58, of Tel Aviv; Dana Gutman, 14, of Moshav Mishmeret; Yovav Levy, 13, of Tel Aviv; Leah Mizrahi, 60, of Tel Aviv; Tali Gordon, 24, of Givatayim; Rahel Sela, 82, of Tel Aviv; Sylvia Bernstein, 73, of Hod Hasharon; Gail Belkin, 48, of Herzliya; St.-Sgt. Assaf Wachs, 21, of Holon.
• 21 April, the Palestine National Council (PNC) holds its twenty-first session in Gaza City in Palestine for the first time since 1964, and decides by majority vote to "abrogate the provisions of the PLO Charter that are contrary to the exchanged letters between the PLO and the Government of Israel of 9 and 10 September 1993."
• Peres calls early elections.
• May: elections for Palestinian Legislative Council and for "Ra'ees" (President) of the Palestinian Authority; Arafat overwhelmingly elected "Ra'ees".
• 1 May, Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority, makes his first official visit to the U.S. and meets with President Bill Clinton at the White House.
• May 14 96 David Baum, 17, a yeshiva high school student in Beit El, was killed when terrorists fired at students at a hitchhiking post at Beil El, near Ramallah.
• 30 May, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu defeats the incumbent Shimon Peres by a slim margin in the, Israeli elections, receiving 50.3% of the vote against 49.6% for Mr. Peres. A right wing government is formed. Netanyahu promises a hard line towards future peace negotiations, and is less anxious to give up land than Peres and Rabin were. This promises to stall negotiations with Syria, who refuses to accept anything but the full return of the Golan, and the Palestinians who feel threatened by a return to Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
• The Israeli government opens a tunnel near Al Haram Al-Sharif in the Old City in East Jerusalem on 24 September. Palestinians demonstrate against the Israeli action throughout the occupied Palestinian territory and in the ensuing days demonstrations continue and clashes take place between the Palestinian police and the Israeli soldiers, resulting in casualties on both sides. The Israeli army uses tanks and gun helicopters against both Palestinian police and civilians. The events result in the killing of 69 Palestinians, 15 Israeli soldiers and one Egyptian.
• Peres calls early elections.
• May: elections for Palestinian Legislative Council and for "Ra'ees" (President) of the Palestinian Authority; Arafat overwhelmingly elected "Ra'ees".
• June: Israeli elections. Benjamin Netanyahu defeats Peres and is elected Prime Minister of a Likud-led, right-wing coalition government. Religious parties hold considerable power.
• June: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Khobar Towers destroyed by Truck bomb, 19 U.S. airmen killed, Bin Ladin suspected
• Jun 9 96 Yaron (26) and Efrat (25) Unger, of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on their car near Beit Shemesh. Jun 16 96 First-Sgt. Meir Alush, 40, an off-duty policeman, was shot and killed in a toy store in the village of Bidiya.
• Jun 26 96 Staff Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, 22, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, 20, of Shibli; and Cpl. (Res.) Ya'acov Turgeman of Rishon Lezion were killed in an ambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltrated from Jordan.
• Jul 26 96 Uri Munk, 53, and his daughter-in-law, Rachel Munk, 24, of Moshav Mevo Betar, were killed in a drive-by shooting attack near Beit Shemesh. 30-year-old Ze'ev Munk, Rachel's husband, was critically wounded and died in the hospital the following week.
• 28 September 1996, the Security Council adopts resolution 1073 (1996) in response to the opening of the tunnel. The resolution calls for the immediate cessation and reversal of all acts which resulted in the aggravation of the situation, and also calls for ensuring the safety and protection of the Palestinian people and for the timely implementation of the agreements reached.
• Dec 11 96 Etta Tzur, 48, and her son Ephraim, 12, were killed when their car was shot at by terrorists near Surda, west of Beit El.

1997:

• January:  The Palestine Authority and the government of Israel conclude the Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron on 17 January which is accompanied by a note from the US Secretary of State, leading to the withdrawal of Israeli forces from 80% of the city. On 19 January, President Arafat visits Hebron for the first time, where he is welcomed by 60,000 Palestinians.
• February: The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics releases preliminary results of the 1997 Census of population, housing and establishments. The estimate of the total population in the Palestinian territory is approximately 2.9 million persons. Of these persons, 1,869,818 are in the West Bank, including the illegally annexed Jerusalem, and 1,020,813 are in the Gaza Strip. A direct count in East Jerusalem is forcefully prevented by the Israeli occupying authorities, but through a variety of means, an estimate of about 210,209 persons living in that area was reached.
• March: The U.S. vetoes a Security Council draft resolution on Jerusalem, presented by the four European members of the Council, on 7 March. The resolution calls upon Israel to abandon its impending construction of a new settlement at Jabal Abu Ghneim, to the south of East Jerusalem. On 21 March, the U.S. again vetoes a Security Council resolution calling upon Israel to halt the construction at Jabal Abu Ghneim. That same day, in a Tel Aviv cafe, a suicide bomber kills himself and 3 Israelis.
• March 1 to April: The combination of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat touring America and Clinton rebuking Israel for not giving away her land for peace coincide with some of the worst tornadoes and flooding in US history. On the very day Arafat lands in America, powerful tornadoes devastate huge sections of the nation, ripping across Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Arafat's American tour also coincides with the flooding in the Dakotas. which result in the worst flooding of this century, in addition to weeks of major storms throughout the Midwest. ,4rafat finishes his tour and leaves .the US and the storms stop.
• Mar 21 97 Michal Avrahami, 32, Yael Gilad, 32, and Anat Winter-Rosen, 32, were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.
• Apr 10 97 The body of IDF Staff-Sgt. Sharon Edri, missing for seven months, was found buried near the West Bank village of Kfar Tzurif. Edri had been kidnapped and murdered by a Hamas terrorist cell in September 1996 while hitchhiking to his home in Moshav Zanoah.
• Apr 25 97 Hagit Zavitzky, 23, of Kfar Adumim and Liat Kastiel, 23, of Holon were found stabbed to death in Wadi Kelt.
• April 24^th-25^th:  The U.N. General Assembly, in reaction to the two U.S. vetoes, convenes for the first time in 15 years an Emergency Special Session (ESS) to consider “Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory”. It overwhelmingly adopts resolution ES-10/2 condemning Israel’s construction at Jabal Abu Ghneim, demanding cessation of all illegal Israeli actions, recommending collective measures, and establishing mechanisms for follow-up.
• May 7^th:  The U.N. Committee against Torture in Geneva summons Israel for a hearing to face charges that it violates the International Convention against Torture. The committee criticizes Israel for being the sole nation to have codified and legalized the use of torture in interrogation.
• June 5^th: Marks the 30th anniversary of the June 1967 War and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. The United Nations holds a solemn meeting on 9 June, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to commemorate the 30th year of the occupation.
• July 15^th:  The U.N. General Assembly reconvenes the 10th Emergency Special Session to consider the report of the Secretary-General on the actual in the occupied territory with regard to Jabal Abu Ghneim and to recommend the convening of a conference of the High Contracting Parties to the 4th Geneva Convention on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem.
• Jul 30 97 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem: Lev Desyatnik, 60, of Jerusalem; Regina Giber, 76, of Jerusalem; Valentina Kovalenko, 67, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Malka, 44, of Mevaseret Zion; David Nasco, 44, of Mevaseret Zion; Muhi A-din Othman, 33, of Abu Ghosh; Simha Fremd, 92, of Jerusalem; Grisha Paskhovitz, 15, of Jerusalem; Leah Stern, 50, of Jerusalem; Rachel Tejgatrio, 80, of Jerusalem; Liliya Zelezniak, 47, of Jerusalem; Shalom (Golan) Zevulun, 52, of Jerusalem; Mark Rabinowitz, 80, of Jerusalem.
• Eli Adourian, 49, of Kfar Adumim, died of his wounds on August 11. Ilia Gazrach, 73, of Pisgat Ze'ev, died on August 29. Baruch Ostrovsky, 84, of Jerusalem died on October 3.
• Sep 4 97 Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem.
• The victims: Yael Botwin, 14; Sivan Zarka, 14; Smadar Elhanan, 14; Rami Kozashvili, 20; and Eliahu Markowitz, 40 - all of Jerusalem.
• November: Karachi, Pakistan Murder of American oil-company employees, Five killed, Possible revenge for U.S. conviction of Pakistani for murders of two CIA agents.
• Nov 19 97 Gabriel Hirschberg, 26, was killed by automatic gunfire in the Old City of Jerusalem.

1998:

• Jan 6 98 Yael Meivar, 25, died of gunshot wounds sustained in a terrorist attack on Dec 31, 1997 near the settlement of Alei Zahav in Samaria.
• January 21^st: NetanYahu meets with President Clinton at the White House and is coldly received. Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright refuse to have lunch with him. Shortly afterwards that day, the Monica Lewinsky scandal breaks into the mass media and begins to occupy a major portion of Clinton's time.
• January 22: During a visit by President Yasser Arafat to Washington, D.C, President Clinton states, the following: “I also would like to take just a second to underline the principles of the peace process: mutual obligations and the concept of land for peace, so that Israelis can live in security, recognized by all their neighbors; and the Palestinians can realize their aspirations to live as a free people”.
• Feb 11 98 David Ktorza, 40, of Jerusalem, was stabbed to death near his home.
• March 23^rd-25^th:  The Secretary-General of the U.N., H.E. Kofi Annan, visits Gaza and the West Bank. The Secretary-General meets with President Arafat and with members of the PLC. He also visits a refugee camp and meets with Palestinian leaders in East Jerusalem.
• May 6 98 Haim Kerman, 28, was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem.
• May 28: Bin Laden, issued a fatwa calling on all Muslims to kill Americans where they can, when they can.   “Allah ordered us in this religion to purify Muslim land of all non-believers, and especially the Arabian,” Bin Ladin said.   The fatwa includes all that share or take part in killing of Muslims, assaulting holy places, or those who help the Jews occupy Muslim land.
• July 7^th: The General Assembly adopts resolution 52/250, entitled “Participation of Palestine in the work of the United Nations,” voting overwhelmingly to upgrade Palestine’s representation at the United Nations to a unique and unprecedented level, somewhere in between the other observers on the one hand and Member States on the other. The resolution conferred upon Palestine additional rights and privileges of participation that had traditionally been exclusive to Member States.
• August: Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, U.S. embassies Simultaneous bombings 230 killed, thousands injured Possibly Osama bin Laden, Saudi financier.
• Aug 5 98 Harel Bin-Nun, 18, and Shlomo Liebman, 24, were shot and killed in an ambush by terrorists while on patrol at the Yizhar settlement in Samaria.
• Aug 20 98 Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan, 63, was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his caravan in Hebron.
• September: The latest Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics census indicates that Israel’s population has reached approximately 5.9 million. Of that number, 4.7 million are Jews, approximately 230,000 of whom live in settlements in the occupied territories, and nearly 1.0 million are Israeli Arabs. It also indicates that the population of settlers in the West Bank and Gaza rose by 3%.
• September 28: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright works on the final details of an agreement in which Israel will give up 13 percent of Yesha (Judah and Samada). The same day Hurricane George slams into the Gulf Coast with 110 mph winds and gusts up to 175. The hurricane hits the coast and stalls. On September 28, Clinton meets with Arafat and NetanYahu at the White House to finalize the land deal. Later, Arafat addresses the United Nations about declaring an independent Palestinian state by May 1999, while Hurricane George pounds the Gulf Coast causing $1 billion in damage. At the exact time Arafat departs the US the storm begins to dissipate.
• Oct 9 98 IDF soldier Michal Adato, 19, was stabbed to death at Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley.
• Oct 14 98 Itamar Doron, 24, was shot to death near Moshav Ora, outside Jerusalem.
• October 23^rd: The Wye River Memorandum is signed by President Arafat and Prime Minister Netanyahu and witnessed by President Clinton and King Hussein during a ceremony at the White House. The Memorandum, reached after nearly 10 days of secluded meetings at the Wye Plantation Center in Maryland, provides steps for the long-overdue implementation of the interim agreements. The talks were only scheduled to last five days with the focus on Israel giving up 13 percent of Yesha. The talks are extended and conclude on October 23. On October 17, awesome rains and tornadoes hit southern Texas. The San Antonio area is deluged with rain. The rain and flooding in Texas continue until October 22 and then subside. The floods ravage 25 percent of Texas and leave over one billion dollars in damage. On October 21, Clinton declares this section of Texas a major disaster area.
• Oct 26 98 Danny Vargas, 29, of Kiryat Arba was shot to death in Hebron.
• Oct 29 98 Sergeant Alexey Neykov, 19, was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.
• December 14^th-16^th:  U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Gaza and Bethlehem, becoming the first American president ever to visit any Palestinian territory and to deal directly with Palestinian leaders and institutions on their land. During the visit, the President makes many important statements, coming very close to recognizing the Palestinian right to self-determination. The president is accompanied by his family and by a large official delegation which includes the Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor. President Clinton addresses a meeting in Gaza which is attended by the Chairman Arafat, the speaker of the PNC, the speaker of the Palestinian Council, members of the PNC, the Central Council and the Palestinian Legislative Council, as well as by Palestinian heads of Ministries and other personalities .

1999:

• Jan 13 99 Sergeant Yehoshua Gavriel, 25, of Ashdod, was killed when terrorists opened fire at the Othniel junction near Hebron.
• May 3: This is the day that Yasser Arafat is scheduled to declare a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as the capital. The declaration is postponed to December 1999 at the request of President Clinton, whose letter to Arafat encourages him for his "aspirations for his own land." He also writes that the Palestinians have a right to "determine their own future on their own land," and that they deserve to "live free, today, tomorrow and forever." That same day, starting at 4:47pm CDT, the most powerful tornado storm system ever to hit the United States sweeps across Oklahoma and Kansas. The winds are clocked at 316 mph the fastest wind speed ever recorded.
• Aug 7 99 The body of an Israeli, shot in the head, was found in a burned vehicle.
• Aug 30 99 Yehiel Finfeter, 25, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sharon Steinmetz, 21, of Haifa, were murdered while hiking in the Megiddo region.
• September 22: Arafat meets with Clinton in Washington DC The day before and after the meeting, the market falls more than 200 points each day. This was the first time in history the market lost more than 200 points two days in a week. The market lost 534 points that week.
• November 23: Arafat meets with Clinton in Washington, who is raising funds of the Palestinian state. That day the stock market fell 216 points.

2000:

• February 15, 2000: “Like a coating of glaze over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart. A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit. Though his speech is charming, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. (Proverbs 26:23-26)”

Pope John Paul II and Yassir Arafat recently signed an agreement that stated "unilateral decisions and actions altering the specific character and status of Jerusalem are morally and legally unacceptable."   The words are couched in diplomatic terms, but what they mean is that the Catholic Church and the PLO are insisting that Israel does not have the sovereign prerogative and jurisdiction to make any decisions regarding the fate of Jerusalem.

Arafat's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh explained that the agreement means that "Jerusalem... cannot be ruled by Israel alone." The Vatican spokesman Joacqin Navarro-Valls said that the agreement "regulates the presence and activities of the Catholic Church on Palestinian Authority territory."

The Jerusalem Post published a picture of Arafat kissing the Pope's ring. The two persistent enemies of Israel, enemies of  Yahweh of Israel, are conspiring to take control of Jerusalem, presuming to declare what is "morally and legally acceptable" for Israel.

• May 2000 Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon to international border is completed after many years of harassment by Hizbullah guerrillas. UN declares Israel is compliant with Resolution 425, but the Hizbullah continues to harass Israeli positions, kidnapping three Israeli soldiers later in the summer.
• June 16, 2000: Arafat meets with President Clinton. The market fell 265 points on that day. 
• Sept 27, 2000 - Sgt. David Biri, 19, of Jerusalem, was fatally wounded in a bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
• Sept. 28, 2000 Palestinians initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, which is also the location of the Haram as Sharif holy to Muslims. Violence escalated rapidly from rock throwing to machine gun and mortar fire, suicide bombings and lethal road ambushes, including some instigated by settlers against Palestinians. Israelis killed 15 Israeli Arabs in riots in September/October 2000, and over 500 Palestinians in retaliatory raids thereafter. Palestinians kill over 100 Israelis. Violence continues for over a year [to present - April 2002].
• Sept 29, 2000 - Border Police Supt. Yossi Tabaja, 27, of Ramle was shot to death by his Palestinian counterpart on a joint patrol near Kalkilya.
• OCTOBER 2000 – ISRAEL CONDEMNED BY UN, US ABSTAINS FROM VOTE (An abstention is just the same as a condemnation in this case); CLINTON TO VISIT ISRAEL TO TALK PEACE WITH ARAFAT AND BARAK; USS COLE BOMBED AND STOCK MARKET TAKES AMAJOR DIVE.  Clinton plans to visit region tomorrow.  
• Oct 1, 2000 - Border Police Cpl. Yosef Madhat, 19, of Beit Jann, died of gunshot wounds sustained in a gun battle with Palestinians at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.
• Oct 2, 2000 - Wichlav Zalsevsky, 24, of Ashdod, was shot in the head in the village of Masha on the trans-Samaria highway. Sgt. Max Hazan, 20, of Dimona, died of gunshot injuries sustained near Beit Sahur.
• Oct 8, 2000 - The bullet-riddled body of Hillel Lieberman, 36, of Elon Moreh was found at the southern entrance to Nablus.
• October 11, 2000 - JERUSALEM Senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office reacted positively last night to reports that US President Bill Clinton is likely to come to the region as early as tomorrow to try to put an end to the violence and jump-start the peace negotiations. According to one official, the idea is for separate meetings in Israel and Gaza with Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, followed by a tripartite meeting. The visit would come in place of a summit the US administration has been trying to organize over the last few days in Egypt. Bush approves US failure to veto UN resolution NEW YORK As the presidential candidates prepare to debate tonight, chances are greater than last week that the Texas Gov. George Bush and Vice President Al Gore will discuss the Middle East. Bush passed up an opportunity to criticize the Clinton administration for its failure to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's use of "excessive force" against the Palestinians. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who used a Senate campaign debate on Sunday to express her disapproval, Bush expressed his approval of the vote.  "I think that the governor feels that the administration acted appropriately in abstaining in that vote," said Ken Lisaius, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign.

Here is what followed in America:

• October 12 2000, Thursday, (13:50) Four US sailors die in explosion in Aden An explosion has killed four US sailors on an American destroyer that was fueling in Aden. Five others were injured and one sailor is missing. The explosion occurred when a rubber boat impacted into the ship that had come via the Red Sea on its way to the Persian Gulf. Dow closes down 380 points on rising Middle East tensions.  NEW YORK (AP) The Dow Jones industrial average plunged about 380 points Thursday while the Nasdaq composite index recorded its lowest close this year, as jittery investors reacted to the escalating violence in the Middle East. First Cpl. Yosef Avrahami and First Sgt. Vadim Novesche, 33, two reserve IDF soldiers, were lynched by a Palestinian mob at the police building in Ramallah.
• Oct 19, 2000 - Rabbi Binyamin Herling, 64, of Kedumim, was killed when Fatah members and Palestinian security forces opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women, and children on a trip at Mount Ebal near Nablus.
• Oct 28, 2000 - The body of Marik Gavrilov, 25, of Bnei Aysh was found inside his burned-out car, between the village of Bitunia and Ramallah.
• Oct 30, 2000 - Eish-Kodesh Gilmor, 25, of Mevo Modi'in, was shot and killed while on duty as a security guard at the National Insurance Institute's East Jerusalem branch. Another guard was injured. Amos Machlouf, 30, of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem, was found murdered in a ravine near Beit Jala.
• Nov 1, 2000 - Lt. David-Hen Cohen, 21, of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina, 20, of Kibbutz Ze'elim were killed in a shooting incident in the Al-Hader area, near Bethlehem. Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, 34, of Jerusalem was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley               while on active reserve duty.
• Nov 2, 2000 - Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Nov 8, 2000 - Noa Dahan, 25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south, was shot to death while driving to her job at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.
• Nov 10, 2000 - Sgt. Shahar Vekret, 20, of Lod was fatally shot by a Palestinian sniper near Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.
• Nov 11, 2000 - Sgt. 1st Class Avner Shalom, 28, of Eilat, was killed in a shooting attack at the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip.
• Nov 13, 2000 - Sarah Leisha, 42, of Neveh Tzuf was killed by gunfire from a passing car while traveling near Ofra, north of Ramallah.
• Cpl. Elad Wallenstein, 18, of Ashkelon, and Cpl. Amit Zanna, 19, of Netanya were killed by gunfire from a car passing the military bus carrying them near Ofra.
• Nov 13, 2000 - Gabi Zaghouri, 36, of Netivot was killed by gunfire directed at the truck he was driving near the Kissufim junction in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
• Nov 18, 2000 - St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip. St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded in the Palestinian shooting attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds on Nov 20. 
• Nov 20, 2000 - Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of Kfar Darom, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5 children, were injured.
• Nov 21, 2000 - Itamar Yefet, 18, of Netzer Hazani died from a gunshot wound to the head by Palestinian sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction.
• Nov 22, 2000 - Shoshana Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was detonated alongside a passing bus on Hadera's main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work. 60 were wounded in the blast.
• Nov 23, 2000 - Lt. Edward Matchnik, 21, of Beersheba, was killed in an explosion at the District Coordination Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. (The joint DCOs were established at the borders of Palestinian-ruled areas under the interim peace accords and were responsible for coordinating security and humanitarian cooperation.) Sgt. Samar Hussein, 19, of Hurfeish, was killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire at soldiers patrolling the border fence near the Erez crossing.
• Nov 24, 2000 - Maj. Sharon Arameh, 25, of Ashkelon was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip. Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was killed by Palestinian fire as he traveled near Otzarin in the West Bank.
• Dec 8, 2000 - Rina Didovsky, 39, a Beit Hagai school teacher on her way to work, and Eliyahu Ben-Ami, 41, of Otniel, the driver of the van, were killed when a car full of gunmen opened fire on the van near Kiryat Arba. Sgt. Tal Gordon, 19, was killed when gunmen in a passing car opened fire on an Egged bus traveling south from Tiberias to Jerusalem on the Jericho bypass road.
• Dec 21, 2000 - Eliahu Cohen, 29, of Modi'in was shot and killed tonight by Palestinian terrorists waiting in ambush on the road between Givat Ze'ev and Beit Horon.
• Dec 28, 2000 - Capt. Gad Marasha, 30, of Kiryat Arba and Border Police Sgt.-Maj. Yonatan Vermullen, 29, of Ben-Shemen, were killed when called to dismantle a road-side bomb near the Sufa crossing in the Gaza Strip. The bomb was dismantled, but another bomb exploded, killing both and injuring two other soldiers. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Dec 31, 2000 – Rabbi Binyamin Zeev Kahane, the son of the founder of the Kach Party the late Rabbi Meir Kahane ztl both men of whom I had met and had a great deal of respect, and his wife, Talia, were killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire while they were driving on the Ramallah bypass road. Five of their children, aged two months to 10 years, were injured.

2001:

• Jan 14, 2001 - The bullet-ridden body of Ron Tzalah, 32, of Kfar Yam in Gush Katif, apparently killed on Sunday night (Jan 14), was found the following morning near the Kfar Yam hothouses.
• Jan 17, 2001 - Ofir Rahum, 16, of Ashkelon, traveled to Jerusalem to meet a young woman with whom he had conducted a relationship over the Internet. She then drove him toward Ramallah. At a prearranged location, another vehicle drove up and three Palestinian gunmen inside shot Rahum more than 15 times. One terrorist drove off with Rahum's body and dumped it, while the others fled in the second vehicle.
• Jan 23, 2001 - Motti Dayan, 27, and Etgar Zeituny, 34, cousins from Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant in Tulkarem by masked Palestinian gunmen and executed.
• Jan 25, 2001 - Akiva Pashkos, 45, of Jerusalem, was shot dead in a terror attack near the Atarot industrial zone north of Jerusalem.
• Jan 29, 2001 - Arye Hershkowitz, 55, of Ofra, was killed by shots fired from a passing car near the Rama junction north of Jerusalem.
• Feb 1, 2001 - Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42, of Karmei Tzur, was killed by Palestinian gunmen who fired at his car near the Aroub refugee camp on the Jerusalem-Hebron highway.

Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was shot and killed in his car by sniper fire near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Lior Attiah, 23, of Afula was shot to death by terrorists while traveling near Jenin.

• Feb 5, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Rujayah Salameh, 23, was killed by sniper fire near Rafah.
• Feb 11, 2001 - Tzachi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen as he drove home from Jerusalem.
• Feb 14, 2001 - Simcha Shitrit, 30, of Rishon Lezion; Staff-Sgt. Ofir Magidish, 20, of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. David Iluz, 21, of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. Julie Weiner, 21, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Rachel Levi, 19, of Ashkelon; Sgt. Kochava Polanski, 19, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Alexander Manevich, 18, of Ashkelon; and Cpl. Yasmin Karisi, 18, of Ashkelon were killed when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv. In addition, 25 people were injured in the attack.
• Feb 26, 2001 - The body of Mordechai Shefer, 55, of Kfar Sava, was found in an olive grove near Moshav Hagor. An autopsy revealed that he was murdered. Investigators suspect terrorist motives.
• Mar 1, 2001 - Claude Knap, 29, of Tiberias was killed and 9 people injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.
• Mar 4, 2001 - Naftali Dean, 85, of Tel Mond; his niece, Shlomit Ziv, 58, of Netanya; and Yevgenya Malchin, 70, of Netanya were killed in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya; 60 people were injured. The Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

It is important to understand that for Palestinian terrorists, sacrificial violence against Israel has two categories of victims. One category, of course, is the "vile, infidel Jew." The other is the "glorious martyr" who kills the despised Jew (it is always the "Jew," never the Israeli) and who earns eternal glory by "dying for the sake of Allah." This "martyr" need not fear personal death in sacrificing himself as a suicide bomber. On the contrary, by choosing to "die" in this way he actually buys himself free, forever, from the penalty of dying. "Do not consider those who are slain in the cause of Allah, as dead," says the Koran. "They are living by their Lord."  "Strive for death, and you will receive life," believes the Palestinian terrorist who would sacrifice himself .

• Mar 19, 2001 - Baruch Cohen, 59, of Efrat, was killed by shots fired at his car while driving to work in Jerusalem from his home in the Gush Etzion area. After being hit by bullets, he lost control of the car and collided with an oncoming truck.
• Mar 26, 2001 - Shalhevet Pass, age 10 months, was killed by sniper fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron.
• Mar 28, 2001 - Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat, 15, of Givat Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn, 13, of Petah Tikva were killed in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom ("peace stop") gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Four people were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Apr 1, 2001 - Staff Sgt. Ya'akov Krenschel, 23, of Nahariya, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed in a firefight between army and Palestinian forces southeast of Nablus.

Dina Guetta, 42, of Haifa, was stabbed to death on Ha'atzmaut Street. Her murder was the initiation rite into a terrorist cell apprehended in July.

• Apr 2, 2001 - Sgt. Danny Darai, 20, of Arad, was killed by a Palestinian sniper after completing guard duty at Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.
• Apr 21, 2001 - The mutilated body of Stanislav Sandomirsky, 38, of Beit Shemesh, was found in the trunk of his car near a village north of Ramallah late last night. Terrorist motives are suspected.
• Apr 22, 2001 - Dr. Mario Goldin, 53, of Kfar Sava, was killed when a terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets. About 60 people were injured in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.
• Apr 28, 2001 - Sgt. Shlomo Elmakias, 20, of Netanya, was killed and four women passengers wounded in a drive-by terrorist shooting attack on the Wadi Ara highway in the Galilee.

Simcha Ron, 60, of Nahariya, was found stabbed to death in Kfar Ba'aneh, near Carmiel in the Galilee. The terrorists responsible for the attack were apprehended in July.

• May 1, 2001 - Assaf Hershkowitz, 30, of Ofra, was killed when his vehicle was fired upon and overturned at a junction between Ofra and Beit El.
• May 8, 2001 - Arnaldo Agranionic, 48, was murdered by terrorists as he guarded the Binyamin Farm, a lonely outpost where he lived, on an isolated hilltop east of Itamar in Samaria.
• May 9, 2001 - Yossi Ish-Ran, 14, and Kobi Mandell, 14, both of Tekoa, were found stoned to death in a cave about 200 meters from the small community south of Jerusalem where they lived.
• May 10, 2001 - Constantin Straturula, 52, and Virgil Martinesc, 29, two Romanian citizens employed by   an Israeli contractor, were killed in a bomb attack while repairing a vandalized fence at the Kissufim Crossing into the Gaza District.
• May 15, 2001 - Idit Mizrahi, 20, of Rimonim, was fatally shot in a terrorist ambush as she drove with her father and brother on the Alon Highway to attend a family wedding. Terrorists fired 30 bullets, 19 of which hit the family's car.
• May 18, 2001 - Tirza Polonsky, 66, of Moshav Kfar Haim; Miriam Waxman, 51, of Hadera; David Yarkoni, 53, of Netanya; Yulia Tratiakova, 21, of Netanya; and Vladislav Sorokin, 34, of Netanya were killed in a suicide bombing at Hasharon Mall in the seaside city of Netanya, in which over 100 were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Lt. Yair Nebenzahl, 22, of Neve Tzuf (Halamish), was killed and his mother seriously wounded, in a Palestinian roadside ambush north of Jerusalem.

• May 20^th, 2001 DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources, summing up the events of the last few days, warn that if the Arab world, led by Egypt and the Saudis, does not hurry up and launch a determined effort to arrest the deterioration in the Middle East, it will be increasingly difficult to halt the slide into a regional war. The new Arab League Secretary, former Egyptian foreign minister Amer Moussa, threw regional fuel on the local fire in his first appearance before the Arab League’s monitoring committee of nine foreign ministers in Cairo Saturday. “For years we talked about the peace process;” he said, “Now we’re back to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

Such radical talk in the Arab League quickly filters down to the Arab street, translated in a flash to rallying cries for jihad and mass anti-Israel disturbances in Arab cities. Arab regimes, especially those of uncertain stability, face the hard options of taking their lead from the street or suppressing the outcry by force.

• May 23, 2001 - Asher Iluz, 33, of Modi'in was killed outside Ariel en route to supervise a road paving in the area, when Palestinian gunmen opened fire in an ambush.
• May 25, 2001 - The burnt body of Yosef Alfasi, 50, of Rishon Letzion, was discovered near the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
• May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving in the West Bank between Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sarah Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 31, 2001 - Zvi Shelef, 63, of Mevo Dotan, was killed in a drive-by shooting attack in northern Samaria north of Tulkarem. He was shot in the head and died en route to hospital.
• June 1, 2001 - Marina Berkovizki, 17, of Tel Aviv; Roman Dezanshvili, 21, of Bat Yam; Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam; Anya Kazachkov, 16, of Holon; Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, 15, of Ramat Gan; Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of the Ukraine; Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel Aviv; Irina Nepomneschi, 16, of Bat Yam; Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv; Yulia Nelimov, 16, of Tel Aviv; Raisa Nimrovsky, 15, of Netanya; Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, 21, of Tel Aviv; Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon; Ori Shahar, 32, of Ramat Gan; Liana Sakiyan, 16, of Tel Aviv; Maria Tagilchev, 14, of Netanya; and Irena Usdachi, 18, of Holon were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself outside a disco near Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday. Sergei Pancheskov, 20, of the Ukraine; Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15, of Holon; Jan Bloom, 25, of Ramat Gan; and Yevgenia Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam died subsequently from their injuries. 120 people were wounded in the bombing.
• June 5-11, 2001 On June 5, President George W. Bush sends CIA director George Tenet to Israel to try to broker a cease-fire between the Israelis and the Palestinians and to implement the Mitchell Report. Tenet wants Israel to stop building in the settlement areas. On Friday, June 8, the CIA director hosts talks between senior Israeli and Palestinian security officials, while Assistant Secretary of State William Bums meets Yasser Arafat. Exactly coinciding with these talks, on June 8.-9, one of the greatest rainfalls in the history of the United States occurs in eastern Texas. In a 24 hour period, over 28 inches of rain fell in the Houston area. The nightly news reported the flooding and the meetings in Israel together! Tropical Storm Allison formed within one day and dumped three feet of rain on the area between June 5 and 11. The destruction in Houston was catastrophic, with 28 counties being declared a federal disaster area.
• June 11, 2001 - Yehuda Shoham, aged 5 months, of Shilo, died of injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on June 5. He was critically injured by a rock thrown at the family's car near Shilo in Samaria.
• June 12, 2001 – Rev. Georgios Tsibouktzakis, 34, a Greek Orthodox monk from the St. George Monastery in Wadi Kelt in the Judean desert, was shot and killed while driving on the Jerusalem-Ma'ale Adumim road.
• June 14, 2001 - Lt.Col. Yehuda Edri, 45, of Ma'ale Adumim was killed by a Palestinian informant for Israeli intelligence in a shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass tunnel road connecting the Gush Etzion bloc with Jerusalem. One of his security guards was seriously injured.
• June 16, 2001  The new Baghdad ploy surfaced on Saturday, when Iraq’s UN ambassador Mohammed al-Douri informed American NBC television of a $10,000 reward promised by Saddam Hussein to the Iraqi air-defense crewman who shoots down one of the US and British warplanes patrolling Iraq’s no-fly zones. This was official confirmation of a report carried in
• June 18, 2001 - Dan Yehuda, 35, of Homesh was killed in a drive-by shooting attack between Homesh and Shavei Shomron, near Nablus. Alex Briskin, 17, was moderately injured.
• June 20, 2001 - Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh in Samaria was shot and killed at close range in an ambush late Wednesday afternoon in the nearby Palestinian town of Silat a-Dahar.
• June 22, 2001 - Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed in a suicide bombing near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached.
• June 26. Finalized Friday, June 29, 2001 President George W. Bush and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s met, June 26 and an agreement was finalized Friday, June 29, with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, for which secretary of state Colin Powell flew to Paris especially, along with the European leaders, UK premier Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac.
• The provisions of the secret agreement are:

Israel undertakes not to launch a full-scale offensive against the Palestinian Authority or bring about its collapse.

2. Israel promise to abide by its policy of military restraint in Palestinian-ruled areas

3. A large international observer force made up of up to 200 American monitors will function under a joint US-European command in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and borderlands between Palestinian areas and Israel, taking up position in the first half of September. Under discussion now is a decision to provide the monitors with weapons and APCs for effective combat versus terrorists. Construction and ground-clearing operations have been in progress in the border areas for some weeks to prepare localities for observer positions.

4. Israel will have a free hand to fend off external threats around its borders and farther afield – from the Hizballah, Syria, Iraq and Iran.

5. The US and European powers will back Israel up in such actions when coordinated in advance.

6. If the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat throws in the towel at some point, Israel and the Palestinians will go back to full security coordination, this time with the international observer force and its European element participating.

7. In that eventuality, the international observers will go into Palestinian Authority areas to monitor the collection of illegal weapons, such as mortars and Katyusha rockets.

8. Israel will restrict the type and quantities of weapons in the hands of settlers. The international observers will be allowed to enter Jewish settlements to verify adherence to those restrictions and ensure that settlers are not organizing for anti-Palestinian operations.

9. The US, the EU and Israel will jointly monitor the funds and economic aid flowing month by month to the Palestinian Authority. While no aid reaches the Palestinians officially from any of the three, an under-the-counter arrangement via Germany, authorized by the US and Israel, makes sufficient moneys available to keep the Palestinian Authority afloat.

• June 28, 2001 - Ekaterina (Katya) Weintraub, 27, of Ganim in northern Samaria was killed and another woman injured late Thursday afternoon by shots fired at the two-car convoy on the Jenin bypass road.
• July 2, 2001 - Aharon Obadyan, 41, of Zichron Ya'akov was shot and killed near Baka a-Sharkia, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and close to the 1967 Green Line border, after shopping at the local market.
• July 2, 2001 - The body of Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Susiya in the Hebron hills, missing since Monday (July 2) was found early Tuesday morning shot in the head and chest.
• July 4, 2001 - Eliahu Na'aman, 32, of Petah Tikva, was shot at point-blank range just inside the Green Line at Sueika, near Tulkarem.
• July 9, 2001 - Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen, 22, of Pardes Hanna, was killed and another soldier was wounded when an explosive charge detonated beneath their jeep after leaving the Aduraim IDF base south of Hebron.
• July 13, 2001 - Yehezkel (Hezi) Mualem, 49, father of four from Kiryat Arba, was shot and killed between Kiryat Arba and Hebron while protesting a shooting attack in the area the previous day.
• July 14, 2001 - David Cohen, 28, of Betar Illit, died of injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting in Kiryat Arba on July 12.
• July 16, 2001 - Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded - 3 seriously - when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• July 24, 2001 - The body of Yuri Gushchin, 18, of Jerusalem, brutally murdered, bearing stab and gunfire wounds, was found in Ramallah.
• July 26, 2001 - Ronen Landau, 17, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists while returning home from Jerusalem with his father.
• 2 AUGUST 2001 – During the last week of July the US has been putting pressure on Israel to get back to a cease fire and start counting the 7 days of non-violence, and the US has condemned Israel for the rocket attack on Hamas operatives that killed 8 Palestinians.

Here is what followed in America: There have been raging fires in the western US, intense heat in the Midwest, major flooding in the states of Virginia and West Virginia, and Florida went from drought conditions to severe flooding due to a tropical storm that developed in the Gulf of Mexico.  In Chicago the intense heat wave was cooled by flooding rains.  On August 4th the tropical storm stalled in the Gulf then headed back towards Florida.  On August 6th it hit the panhandle with high winds and heavy rains and flooding.  This heavy amount over all of Florida and other southern states will help the misquote breed and further the spread of West Nile Virus.  The heat wave continues from them Rockies to the east coast.

Also – Britain condemned Israel for the same attack and just before midnight on August 2nd a big bomb went off in a busy area of London.  ““The explosion happened just before midnight on Thursday evening outside a branch of the Body Shop on Uxbridge Road, about 100 meters from the Tube and rail station.  Eyewitnesses said there was a "huge blast", flames of about 15ft and "smoke everywhere".   The scene is described as one of "complete devastation" with shop fronts blown out and "glass everywhere".   Police at the scene said there were "several" injuries but were unable to confirm numbers.””

• From the Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, August 4, 2001- “Blast in London Stokes Britons' Fear of Violence- IRA Splinter Group Blamed For Car Bomb Near Subway.   With Londoners on guard against terrorist bombs, the streets of Belfast smoldering through nightly riots and two alleged paramilitary soldiers arrested for murder, the troubles of Northern Ireland reminded Britons today of the bad old days before the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.  Scotland Yard said the violent Irish nationalist group called the Real IRA was responsible for a large bomb that exploded near a subway station in the West London neighborhood of Ealing just before midnight Thursday. Hidden in a secondhand Saab, the 88-pound bomb injured seven people, two seriously, and left this city of 8 million fearful that killings might resume here.  Today the area around the station looked as if a ferocious hurricane had smashed through, bending metal and shattering every window in sight. Because Thursday night was a typical London summer evening -- gray, chilly and wet -- no one was outside when the bomb went off. Police called it extremely lucky that there were no deaths.”  A couple of days later the British Government retracted their condemnation of Israel.
• Aug 5, 2001 - Tehiya Bloomberg, 40, of Karnei Shomron, mother of five and 5 months pregnant, was killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the family vehicle between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron. Three people were seriously wounded, including her husband, Shimon, and daughter, Tzippi, 14.
• Aug 6, 2001 - Yitzhak Snir, 51, of Ra'anana, an Israeli diamond merchant, was shot dead in Amman, in the yard of the building where he kept a flat. His body was found the following morning.
• Aug 7, 2001 - Wael Ghanem, 32, an Arab Israeli resident of Taibeh, was shot and killed by Palestinian assailants on the road near Kalkilya. Police believe he was murdered because of suspected collaboration with Israeli authorities.

Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit in the Jordan Valley, was shot and killed by terrorists while driving home at night on the Trans-Samaria Highway.

• Aug 9, 2001 - Giora Balash, 60, of Brazil; Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel; Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.; Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem; Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, of Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem; Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem; Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, of Neria; Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, of Neria; Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria; Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of Neria; Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem; Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem; and Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem were killed and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aliza Malka, 17, a boarding student at Kibbutz Merav, was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting at the entrance to the kibbutz in the Gilboa region, west of Beit She'an. Three teenage girls who were with her in the car were injured, one seriously.

• August 10, 2001 – Following the seizure of the Palestinian “Orient House”, “Abu Dis” and other institutions, the US State Department condemned these actions by Israel calling them a political escalation.

Here is what followed in America:

ABC NEWS:  Farmers crops in south Texas are dying due to drought and heat.  Grapefruit trees are dead and have to be cut down. The Rio Grand River is extremely low at the mouth of the river and no water is flowing into the gulf.

WORLD NET DAILY: California officials say Western states neared blackouts.

AP) .  SAN FRANCISCO -- California power managers say 65 million customers in 11 Western states and parts of Canada and Mexico were at risk of blackouts last week when several power suppliers failed to deliver electricity to the region as promised.

(AP) PORTOLA, Calif. - A magnitude-5.5 earthquake shook part of Northern California on Friday, authorities said.  There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

• August 14, 2001 - The United States condemned Israel's predawn strike on police headquarters in Palestinian Authority-controlled Jenin.

Here is what followed in America:

WASHINGTON POST  D.C. Mops Up, Assesses Damage.   Mayor to Seek Disaster Area Status, Federal

Aid in Storms' Aftermath.   Yesterday, city officials and residents began assessing the damage of what amounted to a very localized natural disaster, after Saturday's thunderstorms overwhelmed some neighborhoods of the 69-square-mile capital but left Capitol Hill, Georgetown and other southern areas of the city disaster-free. About 1,160 households remained without power in the Washington area early last night, a Potomac Electric Power Co. spokesman said. In the District, 600 homes, the vast majority in Northwest, were without power. Gas and hot-water failures also were reported.

ABC NEWS:  400 WILD FIRES BURNING OUT OF CONTROL IN WEST.  With hundreds of wildfires raging across the arid American West, the Bush administration and a group of governors have announced a new strategy in battling the blazes: greater focus on prevention. This month, that approach has been particularly taxing.

In the West, the summer wildfire season has begun in earnest, with hundreds of lightning-ignited fires            burning in eight states, smoke shutting down part of Interstate 80 in the Sierras, and firefighters considering asking the military for help. Currently, more than 320,000 acres are burning out of control in the West, which has experienced some particularly dry weather this year. Overnight, lightning strikes ignited more than 400 new fires, many in Oregon and Washington, where at least two homes were destroyed and several others evacuated. Thunderstorms also recently set massive fires in Nevada. Two dozen homes along the California border are threatened. The fires out west continue to blaze out of control. Upgraded to a level 5 condition, the highest level. Fire conditions have never moved up to level 5 so fast in past history. Wildfires are burning in Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Montana, Texas and Wyoming. Fires prompt Oregon emergency declaration.  SALEM, Oregon -- Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber declared a drought emergency for his state Thursday and mobilized 120 National Guard troops to help battle wildfires. The National Interagency Fire Information Center said Oregon and Washington, which are suffering dry conditions and winds ranging from 15 to 35 mph, continue to have the worst blazes of the 10 Western states with wildfires Thursday. Tech Woes - Nasdaq dropped to a four-month low Wednesday on negative news from tech bellwethers.

DOLLAR SLIDES vs YEN, EURO.  Despite an unchanged strong dollar policy, the greenback extended its vigorous drop on fears that a sickly domestic economy will diminish the allure of holding greenbacks.  European markets are off to a weaker start on heels of U.S., Japan losses. Tokyo's Nikkei sank two percent as worries over the U.S. economy send investors scurrying for the yen, which strengthened and hurt the shares of Japanese exporters.

• AUGUST 17, 2001 - U.S. Troops to Help Battle Wildfires.  MONUMENT, Ore. — Marine and Army battalions have been called up to join more than 20,000 firefighters who are toiling in sweltering heat and rugged terrain as they try to stave off wildfires raging throughout the West.

NEW YORK (AP) Dow Ends Down 152; Nasdaq Drops 63 - — Profit warnings from Dell Computer and Gap, job cuts by Ford Motor, an appeals court decision against Microsoft and a sharp decline in sales of U.S. goods abroad all combined to pummel Wall Street Friday. The widespread losses were also spurred by a report that the U.S. trade deficit widened in June as sales of American-made goods to other countries declined by a larger amount than imports. The Commerce Department reported Friday that the trade imbalance increased by 3.3 percent to $29.4 billion in June, matching many analysts' expectations. That decline comes as the nation's manufacturers, including computer and auto makers, complain that the value of the dollar is too strong, making their goods expensive abroad.

• AUGUST 18, 2001 - Bad forecast for Western firefighters.  BOISE, Idaho (CNN) -- Firefighters in Western states face a less-than-helpful weather forecast Saturday, which is expected to contribute to raging wildfires that have already burned thousands of acres of woodlands and forced evacuation of many areas.
• AUGUST 20, 2001 - U.S. Backs Israel at U.N. Meeting.  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States backed Israel's position during a special U.N. Security Council meeting Monday on the crisis in the Middle East, saying an Arab call for council action was unworkable and one-sided. The lack of support from the United States — a veto-wielding member of the council — made it unlikely that the draft resolution circulated by the Palestinians last week would go for a vote in the council.

Here is what followed in America: Cooler, wet weather may aid Western firefighters.  BOISE, Idaho  -- Firefighters in the western United States could get some help from wet weather as the week goes on, officials from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) said Monday.   But meteorologists warned that strong winds could hamper efforts to battle blazes in California and Nevada.  Rick Ochoa, a fire meteorologist with the NIFC, said the center is keeping an eye on a storm system in the Gulf of Alaska that is expected to move into the Pacific Northwest and bring rain to many of the fire areas as early as Tuesday. New fires break out.  Ten new large fires were reported overnight into Monday, bringing to 40 the number of large fires ablaze, said NIFC officials. A large fire is defined as a fire burning uncontained and covering at least 100 acres. They said more than 450,000 acres are currently aflame across nine states, mostly in the West. The good news is that five large fires were contained Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) Dow Ends Up 79; Nasdaq Rises 14 — The market got a slight lift today from bargain hunters who sought out stocks at cheaper prices despite little indication that business is getting better.

• FOX NEWS – AUGUST 21  Weather Helps Fight Against Wildfires.  LEAVENWORTH, Wash.  — Fire engines streamed out of this mountain resort town as cool weather helped knock down a wildfire, the latest example of the progress being made against blazes that have charred nearly a half-million acres in the West. The National Weather Service said a strong weather system was moving from the Gulf of Alaska into Washington, bringing with it the possibility of record rainfall of an inch or more on the west side of the state on Tuesday. Showers could extend south into Oregon, where firefighters also are battling large blazes. Weaker winds and lower temperatures over the weekend allowed firefighters to fully contain four fires around Oregon. Firefighters still were working to contain wildfires scorching more than 105,720 acres across Oregon.
• Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli, 19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers, members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the Palestinian security forces, were killed by IDF soldiers. The Democratic Front claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Aug 25, 2001 - Sharon, 26, and Yaniv Ben-Shalom, 27, of Ofarim, were killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car as they were returning home on the Jerusalem-Modi'in on road Saturday night. Their children, aged one and two, were lightly wounded. Sharon's brother, Doron Sviri, 20, of Jerusalem was fatally wounded and died the following day.
• Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman, 58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon near the entrance to the village of Zaita, opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• August 27, 2001 Iraq said its forces shot down an unmanned Predator plane in the Basra area, 560 kilometers (350 miles) south of Baghdad.
• Aug 27, 2001 - Meir Lixenberg, 38, of Itamar, father of five, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists from a roadside ambush while traveling between the communities of Har Bracha and Itamar, south of Nablus.
• AUGUST 28, 2001 – US tells Israel to pull out of Beit Jala.
• AUGUST 29, 2001 (20:45) Powell assures Arafat US is pressuring Israel.
• Aug 29, 2001 - Oleg Sotnikov, 35, of Ashdod, a truck driver employed by Dor Energy, was killed in a terrorist shooting attack outside the Palestinian village of Kutchin, west of Nablus.
• WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell called Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat today to assure him the United States was pressing Israel to withdraw from the West Bank town of Beit Jala. Powell also asked Arafat to help restore calm to the region. The call was made against the backdrop of accelerating State Department criticism of Israel for the way it has responded to Palestinian attacks, including incursions into areas turned over to the Palestinian Authority and assassination of suspected terrorists.
• Here is what followed: Dow Ends Down 131; Nasdaq Falls 22.  NEW YORK (AP) — Investors sent stocks tumbling today for a third straight session on a government report showing the economy eked out only a slim gain in the second quarter, its weakest performance in eight years.  Fire Forces Calif. Town to Evacuate. 
• WEAVERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Flames burned through houses and businesses after a fast-moving wildfire forced officials to evacuate more than half of this former mining town of 3,550.
• AUGUST 30, 2001 -(18:10) Bush reportedly mulls meeting Arafat at United Nations. US President George W. Bush is considering whether to meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat during the upcoming United Nations session in New York next month, according to The New York Times. The idea for the meeting came from Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, who made the suggestion to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, the Times reported. Bush is debating whether to deliver a speech next month in which he will express support for some Palestinian positions in order to dispel the impression that the US is giving one-sided support to Israel, Army Radio reported.
• Here is what followed: Dow Ends Below 10,000; Nasdaq Falls.  NEW YORK (AP)— The Dow Jones industrial average fell below 10,000 today for the first time in more than four months on news of a consumer spending slowdown in July and a revenue warning from Sun Microsystems: The Dow, which had already fallen 332 points the first three days of this week, closed down 171.32 at 9,919.58.
• (22:10) US closes two embassies in face of terrorist threats The United States today closed its embassies in Bulgaria and Romania to the public after receiving security threats apparently related to the situation in the Middle East. A State Department spokesman announced in Washington that the embassies are evaluating their security preparedness before reopening to the public, Israel Radio reported.
• Aug 30, 2001 - Amos Tajouri, 60, of Modi'in, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a masked gunman in the Arab village of Na'alin, while dining at a restaurant owned by close friends.
• Sept 6, 2001 - Lt. Erez Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A female officer with him in the car was seriously injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.
• SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 - JERUSALEM POST Bush-Arafat meeting likely this month.  WASHINGTON - Senior administration officials recommended to President George W. Bush on Friday at a White House meeting devoted to the Middle East that he meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat at the UN. This is an idea Arab allies like Saudi Arabia have pushed and that has been bandied about as a possibility for weeks. Bush has so far denied Arafat an invitation to the White House. Another idea, according to diplomatic sources, is that Secretary of State Colin Powell could in his speech at the UN General Assembly indicate some type of US support for Palestinian statehood or at least reaffirm US support for Palestinian sovereignty. A statement of support for Palestinian statehood, long sought by Arafat, would certainly help silence Arab criticism. But sources briefed on the idea stressed that whether such a statement is integrated into the final text of Powell's remarks would depend on the outcome of cease-fire talks next week between Arafat and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and whether Arafat shows a strong commitment to stopping violence and resuming security cooperation.
• Sept 9, 2001 - Ya'akov Hatzav, 42, of Hamra in the Jordan Valley, the driver, and Sima Franko, 24, of Beit She'an, a kindergarten teacher, were killed in a shooting attack 300 meters south of the Adam Junction in the Jordan Valley. A minibus transporting teachers to the regional school was attacked by Palestinian terrorists.
• Sept 9, 2001 - Dr. Yigal Goldstein, 47, of Jerusalem; Morel Derfler, 45, of Mevasseret Zion; and Sgt. Daniel Yifrah, 19, of Jerusalem were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel.
• Sept 11, 2001 - Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv, and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel, were killed just after midnight when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for the attack.
• September 11^th:   Al Queda, a militant Saudi Arabian Palestinian Terrorist organization financed by Saudi Arabian business man and Mullah, Osama benLaden attacked and destroy the World Trade Center by having his operative fly planes into them.  The also try to attack the White House settling for the Pentagon.  Another plane is diverted into a Pennsylvanian cornfield.  The U.S. is shaken. Palestinians dance in the streets.  Initiates US war on terror. Israel and Palestinians agree to cease fire, but it is not implemented.
• Sept 12, 2001 - Ruth Shua'i, 46, of Alfei Menashe, was traveling home around 19:30 PM when shots were fired from a passing vehicle near the village of Habla near Kalkilya. She sustained injuries to her head and stomach and died en route to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.
• Sept 15, 2001 - Meir Weisshaus, 23, of Jerusalem, was fatally shot late Saturday night in a drive-by shooting on the Ramot-French Hill road in northern Jerusalem.
• Sept 16, 2001 - Sgt. David Gordukal, 23, of Upper Nazareth, was killed in the exchange of fire on Saturday night in the south of Ramallah, during which five senior Palestinian terrorists were arrested and a number of Palestinian positions and a Force 17 camp were attacked.
• Sept 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani, 26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning and her husband Shai was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem. The couple's three children who were traveling in the vehicle were not injured. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Sept 24, 2001 - Salit Sheetrit, 28, of Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu was killed by gunfire shortly after 6:30 near Shadmot Mehola on the Jordan Valley road. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Oct 2, 2001 - Cpl. Liron Harpaz, 19, of Alei Sinai, and Assaf Yitzhaki, 20, of Lod, were killed when a Palestinian terrorist cell infiltrated the northern Gaza District community of Alei Sinai, opening fire on residents and hurling grenades into homes. 15 others were wounded in the attack.
• Oct 4, 2001 - Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Oct 5, 2001 - Hananya Ben-Avraham, 46, of Elad was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a machine gun ambush near Avnei Hefetz in central Israel.
• Oct 7, 2001 - Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley.
• Oct 17, 2001 - Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evy, 75, was assassinated by two shots to the head outside his room at the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.  After Palestine National Authority refuses to take effective action, Israeli troops enter Palestinian areas in the West Bank
• Oct 18, 2001 - Lior Kaufman, 30, of Ramat Sharon was killed and two injured, one seriously, by shots fired by terrorists at their jeep in the Judean desert, near the Mar Saba monastery.
• Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel. The Tanzim wing of Arafat's Fatah faction claimed responsibility for the murder.
• Oct 28, 2001 - Ayala Levy, 39, of Elyachin; Smadar Levy, 23, of Hadera; Lydia Marko, 63, of Givat Ada; and Sima Menachem, 30, of Zichron Yaakov were killed when two Palestinian terrorists, members of the Palestinian police, armed with assault rifles and expanding bullets, opened fire from a vehicle on Israeli pedestrians at a crowded bus-stop in downtown Hadera. About 40 were wounded, three critically. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Nov 2, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Palestinian gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Nov 4, 2001 - Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00 at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 45 people were injured in the attack.
• Nov 6, 2001 - Capt. (Res.) Eyal Sela, 39, of Moshav Nir Banim, was shot dead in an ambush by three Palestinian terrorists on the southern Nablus bypass road.
• Nov 9, 2001 - Hadas Abutbul, 39, of Mevo Dotan in northern Samaria was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists on Friday afternoon as she drove from work in nearby Shaked.
• Nov 11, 2001 - Aharon Ussishkin, 50, head of security at Moshav Kfar Hess, east of Netanya, was shot and killed at the entrance to the moshav on Sunday evening, after being summoned to investigate a suspicious person.
• Nov 24, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Barak Madmon, 26, of Holon, an IDF reservist, was killed by a mortar shell that landed in the soccer field of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif, while on his way to take up guard duty. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately too seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.
• Nov 27, 2001 - Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani was killed three others were injured when a Palestinian terrorist threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Nov 29, 2001 - 1st Sgt. Yaron Pikholtz, 20, of Ramat Gan, was killed and a second soldier was injured in a drive-by shooting incident on the Green Line, near the West Bank village of Baka el-Sharkiya.
• Nov 29, 2001 - Inbal Weiss, 22, of Zichron Ya'akov; Yehiav Elshad, 28, of Tel-Aviv; and Samuel Milshevsky, 45, of Kfar Sava were killed and nine wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Dec 1, 2001 - Assaf Avitan, 15, of Jerusalem; Michael Moshe Dahan, 21, of Jerusalem; Israel Ya'akov Danino, 17, of Jerusalem; Yosef El-Ezra, 18, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Nir Haftzadi, 19, of Jerusalem; Yuri (Yoni) Korganov, 20, of Ma'alei Adumim; Golan Turgeman, 15, of Jerusalem; Guy Vaknin, 19, of Jerusalem; Adam Weinstein, 14, of Givon Hahadasha, and Moshe Yedid-Levy, 19, of Jerusalem were killed and about 180 injured - 17 seriously - when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Ido Cohen, 17, of Jerusalem, fatally injured in the attack, died of his wounds on December 8.
• Dec 2, 2001 - Prof. Baruch Singer, 51, of Gedera was killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on his car near the northern Gaza settlement of Elei Sinai. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Dec 2, 2001 - Tatiana Borovik, 23, of Haifa; Mara Fishman, 51, of Haifa; Ina Frenkel, 60, of Haifa; Riki Hadad, 30, of Yokne'am; Ronen Kahalon, 30, of Haifa; Samion Kalik, 64, of Haifa; Mark Khotimliansky, 75, of Haifa; Cecilia Kozamin, 76, of Haifa; Yelena Lomakin, 62, of Haifa; Rosaria Reyes, 42, of the Philippines; Yitzhak Ringel, 41, of Haifa; Rassim Safulin, 78, of Haifa; Leah Strick, 73, of Haifa; Faina Zabiogailu, 64, of Haifa; Mikhail Zaraisky, 71, of Haifa were killed and 40 injured in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel; Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel; David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya'akov Tzarfati, 64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Haim Chiprot, 52, of Emmanuel, injured in the attack, died of his wounds on March 25, 2002.
• Dec 25, 2001 - Sgt. Michael Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed, and four other soldiers were injured, in a shooting attack Tuesday morning near the Jordanian border north of Beit She'an.

2002:

• Jan 3, 2002 Israel captures boatload of illegal arms bound for Palestinian Authority as US envoy Anthony Zinni arrives to try to mediate a settlement.
• January 5  Israel is outraged after it discovers a Palestinian ship loaded with 50 tonnes of arms - including anti-tank missiles and Russian-made Katyusha rockets - which Israel claimed had been sent by Iran. Yasser Arafat denies that the shipment was ordered by the Palestinian Authority.
• Jan 9, 2002 - Maj. Ashraf Hawash, 28, of Beit Zarzir; Sgt.-Maj. Ibrahim Hamadieh, 23, of Rehaniya; Sgt.-Maj. Hana (Eli) Abu-Ghanem, 25, of Haifa; and St.-Sgt. Mofid Sawaid, 25, of Abu Snan, four IDF soldiers of the Bedouin desert patrol unit, were killed and two injured when two armed Palestinian terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip, carrying explosive belts, assault rifles, grenades, and dressed in Palestinian Authority police uniforms, infiltrated into Israel at 04:30 this morning and attacked an IDF post near Kerem Shalom. The terrorists, one a member of the Palestinian Authority's naval force, and the second a Hamas operative, were killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. 
• January 10  Israeli bulldozers destroy 32 homes in the Rafa Refugee Camp, the home of the two militants shot dead the day before following their attack on an Israeli army post.
• Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.
• January 15 Israel assassinates Read Al-Karmi, 28, a Palestinian leader in the al-Aqsa Brigades, who it accuses of involvement in 10 murders. The al-Aqsa Brigades take immediate revenge, shooting dead one Israeli near Nablus.

Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma'aleh Adumim, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem area. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev shortly before 20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car was injured. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Jan 16, 2002 - Shahada Dadis, 30, an Arab resident of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting. He was found dead in a car bearing Israeli license plates south of Jenin in the West Bank.
• Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra'anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

What are the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades?

The brigades are a group of West Bank militias affiliated with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's al Fatah faction and have been one of the driving forces behind the current Palestinian intifada (uprising). While the group initially vowed to target only Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in early 2002 it began a spree of terrorist attacks against civilians in Israeli cities. In March 2002, after a deadly Al Aqsa Brigades suicide bombing in Jerusalem, the State Department added the group to the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. "Our group is an integral part of Fatah," Maslama Thabet, one of the group's leaders in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, told USA Today in March 2002. "We receive our instructions from Fatah. Our commander is Yasser Arafat himself." But another of the group's leaders, Naser Badawi, told the New York Times days later that while "we respect our leader," the decision "to carry out attacks remains with the Aqsa Brigades leadership." Badawi added that Arafat has never approached the group to ask it to stop its suicide bombings, which Arafat has publicly condemned. Palestinian officials have said that most of the group's members are on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority, often because they serve in both the brigades and in one of Arafat's 14 formal security services.

• January 18 - In retaliation for the bat mitzvah attack, Israeli jets destroy the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters in the West Bank town of TulKarem, killing one policeman and injuring 40 more.
• January 21 - Israeli troops seize the West Bank town of TulKarem, imposing a curfew and conducting house-to-house searches for Palestinian fugitives. It is the first time since the uprising began that the Israelis have occupied an entire town.
• Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
• January 24 - The Israeli army kills a senior Hamas commander, Bakr Hamdan, and two of his associates in a helicopter missile strike on his car. In another incident Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who were trying to infiltrate a settlement in Gaza.
• Someone blows up Elie Hobieka, a Lebanese warlord and a potential key witness in a Belgian war crimes case against the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, outside his house in Beirut.
• Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The 20 year old female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.
• January 29  Israeli tanks roll into a Palestinian-controlled village close to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, arresting three suspected militants, including one the army claims is a senior member of Islamic Jihad.
• February 1  Ariel Sharon tells the Israeli newspaper Maariv that he regrets not having eliminated Yasir Arafat 20 years ago when he had the chance during the invasion of Lebanon. But he denies he has any plans to harm Arafat now.
• February 4 Five Palestinian Guerillas are killed in Gaza, allegedly in an Israeli assassination.
• February 5 A lynch mob of hundreds of angry Palestinians storm a courtroom and shoot dead three men convicted of the murder of Osama Qmeil, a Palestinian security official responsible for killing suspected Palestinian collaborators with Israel.
• Feb 6, 2002 - Miri Ohana, 45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier, St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She'an, was also killed in the attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.
• Feb 8, 2002 - Moran Amit, 25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to death by four Palestinians, aged 14 to 16, while strolling on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood Friday afternoon.
• Feb 9, 2002 - Atala Lipobsky, 78, of Ma'ale Ephraim was shot dead on Saturday night while driving on the Trans-Samaria Highway with her son. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the car, apparently from an ambush, between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction.
• Feb 10, 2002 - Lt. Keren Rothstein, 20, of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi, 18, of Moshav Ein Habesor were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at the entrance to the IDF Southern Command base in Be'er Sheva. Four others were wounded, one critically. One of the terrorists was killed at the scene; the second, wearing an explosives belt, fled in the direction of a nearby school when he was shot and killed by a soldier and police officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• February 11 - Israel attacks Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza City in the second day of reprisals for an unprecedented Palestinian missile attack on southern Israel.
• February 13   Israeli troops launch the as yet most extensive military operation in the Gaza Strip in 16 months of fighting, a midnight raid on three Palestinian towns and a refugee camp. Jack Straw visits the Middle East, saying that Yasser Arafat must take more responsibility in controlling acts of terrorism against Israel.
• Feb 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Ron Lavie, 20, of Katzrin, St.-Sgt. Moshe Peled, 20, of Rehovot, and St.-Sgt. Asher Zaguri, 21, of Shlomi were killed and four soldiers injured when a powerful mine exploded under a IDF tank on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, following the detonation of a roadside bomb at a civilian convoy of cars and a bus.

The international court of justice rules that past and present government leaders cannot be tried for war crimes by a foreign state, ending the possibility that a Belgian court can try Ariel Sharon.

• Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Feb 16, 2002 - Nehemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, both of Ginot Shomron were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. Rachel Theler, 16, of Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February 27. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi, 30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky, 20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman, 20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21, of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21, of Haifa were killed being shot at close range and one wounded in a commando style attack at Ein Ariq near a roadblock west of Ramallah. Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers at the roadblock, including three off-duty soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock, killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Four Palestinian gunmen and three civilians were shot in suspected undercover operations by the Israeli army in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank.

A gunman was shot dead in a firefight at an Israeli roadblock.

• Feb 20 2002- Israel launched reprisal attacks on Palestinian Authority targets leaving 16 Palestinians dead for the killing of six Israeli soldiers last night.
• February 22  Israeli troops pull out of positions in the Gaza Strip, but as tensions appear to ease a motorist is shot dead and details emerged of a foiled suicide bombing in the West Bank.

A poll conducted for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Israel's largest Hebrew daily, shows that 61% of Israelis are dissatisfied with Mr Sharon's performance.

Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• February 24  Israel grants Yasser Arafat permission to travel in Ramallah.
• Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

A 15-year-old Palestinian girl, Noura Shalhoub,  weilding a knife is shot dead at an Israeli checkpoint near the West Bank town of Tulkarm. She wrote a suicide note: "I have decided by Allah's will to [attack] those arrogants at the damned checkpoint and kill them to teach them a lesson that they have no security on our land…. signed "the living martyr." A second note, addressed to her classmates, urged them to "bring up your children in the love of jihad" and to "pray that Allah will accept me as a martyr".

• February 26  Israelis and Palestinians agree to resume peace talks as interest grows in a Saudi Peace Plan which would have Israel give up all the land gained in the 1967 war.  Pres. Bush gives cautious support.
• Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.

Europe's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, meets Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to explore the peace plan.

• Feb 28, 2002 - IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel Aviv was killed during clashes with Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IDF forces entered the camp to search for wanted terrorists.
• February 28 - The Israeli army storms the Balata refugee camp, the biggest in the West Bank, strafing it from the air, a mountain top and other strategic positions. A simultaneous invasion of the Jenin refugee camp marks the most concerted effort by Ariel Sharon to crush Palestinian militants on their home terrain since the uprising began.
• March 2002 Midst mounting violence, Saudi Prince Abdullah announces a peace plan, according to which Israel would withdraw from the occupied territories in return for Arab recognition.
• Mar 1, 2002 - IDF soldier Sgt. Ya'acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in the Jenin refugee camp.
• Mar 2, 2002 - The bullet-ridden body of Jerusalem police detective Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan, 46, of Ma'aleh Adumim, was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert. Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at the end of Shabbat (19:15) on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The victims: Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32), and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon Lezion; Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon Lezion; Tzofia Ya'arit Eliyahu (23) and her son Ya'akov Avraham (7 months), of Jerusalem. Avi Hazan, 37, of Moshav Adora, died of his injuries on Monday morning (Mar 4). The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 3, 2002 - Ten Israelis - 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria: Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.) David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat, 26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss, 24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Butarov, 33, of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sgt. Steven Koenigsburg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed and 4 soldiers injured when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad and Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• March 4  Seventeen Palestinians, including five children, are killed in Ramallah as Israel steps up military pressure. Six Palestinians, including two children, die when a car belonging to a Hamas leader is hit. Fighting in the Jenin and Rafah refugee camps that claims 11 lives.
• Mar 5, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian gunman armed with grenades, a knife and an M-16 assault rifle opened fire on the Seafood Market, an all-night restaurant and nightclub in a commercial district of Tel Aviv, where a group of women was attending a bachelorette party.  The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Also today, a bomb went off in the yard of an Arab school, injuring seven students and a teacher. Israeli media said a previously unknown group of Jewish extremists admitted it carried out the attack.

Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at the Palestinian police headquarters in the West Bank town of Nablus and at a police station in Ramallah.

• March 6 - Seven Palestinians are killed as Israel shells the Gaza Strip in one of the most intense assaults on the territory since the current intifada began.

1st Lt. Pinhas Cohen, 23, of Jerusalem, was killed overnight near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis, in the course of anti-terrorist activity. Cpl.(res.) Alexander Nastarenko, 37, of Netanya was killed when Palestinian gunmen crossed the border fence and ambushed an army jeep on the patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz.

• Mar 7, 2002 - Arik Krogliak of Beit El, Tal Kurtzweil of Bnei Brak, Asher Marcus of Jerusalem, Eran Picard of Jerusalem, and Ariel Zana of Jerusalem, all aged 18, were killed and 23 people were injured, four seriously, when a Palestinian gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

A Palestinian suicide bomber blows himself up in a supermarket at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, killing himself and wounding four bystanders. In Jerusalem, two civilians thwarted another bomb attack at a café.

• Mar 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Edward Korol, 20, of Ashdod, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in Tulkarem.

Isreali troops kill 40 Palestinians in an assault on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Earlier, a Palestinian militant had opened fire on a military academy in the Jewish settlement of Atzmona in the Gaza Strip, killing five teenage officer cadets and wounding another 24.

• Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka, 9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye, 27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem; Nir Borochov, 22, of Givat Ze'ev; Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Livnat Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem; Tali Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem; Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev; Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem; Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata; Baruch Lerner, 29, of Eli; Orit Ozerov, 28, of Jerusalem; Avraham Haim Rahamim, 28, of Jerusalem were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in a crowded cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 10, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Kobi Eichelboim, 21, of Givatayim died Sunday afternoon from wounds suffered in the morning when a Palestinian gunman disguised as a worker opened fire at the entrance to Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.

A Hamas member detonates a suicide bomb full of nails and metal screws in the crowded Moment Café in Jerusalem, killing 11 people and wounding more than 50, some seriously. Israel responds by destroying the Palestinian president's headquarters in crowded Gaza City.

Israeli tanks and troops storm a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, unleashing a ferocious firefight in which 17 Palestinian military are killed and more than 50 wounded.

• Mar 12, 2002 - Eyal Lieberman, 42, of Tzoran was killed and another person was wounded in a shooting attack at the Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in.

Yehudit Cohen, 33, of Shlomi; Ofer Kanarick, 44, of Moshav Betzet; Alexei Kotman, 29, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Lynne Livne, 49, and her daughter Atara, 15, of Kibbutz Hanita; and Lt. German Rozhkov, 25, of Kiryat Shmona were killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border with Lebanon. Seven others were injured. Israeli forces killed the two gunmen, who were dressed in IDF uniforms, and carried out wide-scale searches for additional terrorists.

20,000 Israeli troops invade refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and reoccupy the West Bank town of Ramallah. At least 31 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more ordered out of their homes.

• Mar 13, 002 - Lt. Gil Badihi, 21, of Nataf died of injuries suffered Wednesday morning in Ramallah. He was shot in the head by a Palestinian gunman as he stood next to his tank.

In Ramallah, Israeli machine gun fire claims the life of a 42-year-old Italian photographer, Raffaele Ciriello, 42. He is the first foreign journalist killed in the 18-month intifada.

• Mar 14, 2002 US envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni arrives in Israel in the hopes of restarting the peace process after a week of unprecedented violence.

(Passover)  - St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and two soldiers were injured early Thursday morning when a tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.

• Mar 17, 2002 - Noa Auerbach, 18, of Kfar Sava was killed and 16 people were injured when a terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava. The gunman was shot and killed by police.

The US vice president, Dick Cheney arrives for talks with Ariel Sharon, and makes a qualified offer to meet later with Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile Mr Sharon makes a qualified offer to lift the travel ban on Mr Arafat

• Mar 19, 2002 - 1st Lt. Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Mar 20, 2002 - Sgt. Michael Altfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWO Meir Fahima, 40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon Revivo, 19, of Afula; Alon Goldenberg, 28, of Tel Aviv; Mogus Mahento, 75, of Holon; and Bella Schneider, 53, of Hadera were killed and about 30 people were wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Mar 21, 2002 - Gadi (34) and Tzipi (29) Shemesh, of Jerusalem and Yitzhak Cohen, 48, of Modi'in were killed and 86 people injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Mar 24, 2002 - Esther Klieman, 23, of Neve Tzuf, was killed in a shooting attack northwest of Ramallah, while traveling to work in a reinforced Egged bus.

Avi Sabag, 24, of Otniel was killed in a terrorist shooting south of Hebron.

Pres. George Bush asks Israel to release Yasser Arafat from his confinement in Ramallah to allow him to attend the Arab League meeting.

• Mar 26, 2002 - Major Cengiz Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex of Switzerland, members of the TIPH observer force in Hebron, were killed in an ambush shooting by a Palestinian gunman near Halhul.

Fearing he will not be let back into Israel Yasser Arafat announces he will not attend the Arab summit as Ariel Sharon makes new demands, including asking the US to sanction his permanent exile if there are further terrorist attacks while he is in Beirut.

• Mar 27, 2002 – The Arab League summit opens amid wranglings and walkouts. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan are no-shows, and the Palestinian delegation walks out claiming that the Lebanese hosts are blocking Yasser Arafat from making his speech via a satellite link. Syria also pushes for the breaking of all relations with Israel. 

22 people were killed and 140 injured - 20 seriously - in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Shula Abramovitch, 63, of Holon; David Anichovitch, 70, of Netanya; Sgt.-Maj. Avraham Beckerman, 25, of Ashdod; Shimon Ben-Aroya, 42, of Netanya; Andre Fried, 47, of Netanya; Idit Fried, 47, of Netanya; Miriam Gutenzgan, 82, Ramat Gan; Ami Hamami, 44, of Netanya; Perla Hermele, 79, of Sweden; Dvora Karim, 73, of Netanya; Michael Karim, 78, of Netanya; Yehudit Korman, 70, of Ramat Hasharon; Marianne Lehmann Zaoui, 77, of Netanya; Lola Levkovitch, 85, of Jerusalem; Furuk Na'imi, 62, of Netanya; Eliahu Nakash, 85, of Tel-Aviv; Irit Rashel, 45, of Moshav Herev La'et; Yulia Talmi, 87, of Tel-Aviv; St.-Sgt. Sivan Vider, 20, of Bekaot; Ernest Weiss, 79, of Petah Tikva; Eva Weiss, 75, of Petah Tikva; Meir (George) Yakobovitch, 76, of Holon.

Hannah Rogen, 92, of Netanya; Zee'v Vider, 50, of Moshav Bekaot; Alter Britvich, 88, and his wife Frieda, 86, of Netanya died of their injuries on April 2-3.

Sarah Levy, 89, of Tel-Aviv died of her injuries on April 7.

• Mar 28, 2002 – The Arab League summit comes to a final agreement: it promises Israel peace, security and normal relations in return for a full withdrawal for Arab lands occupied since 1967, the establishment of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital and a "fair solution" for the 3.8 million Palestinian refugees. It is, however, a much tougher deal on Israel than the Crown Prince first proposed.

Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20, and Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner, 83, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the community of Elon Moreh in Samaria, entered their home and opened fire on its inhabitants. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 29, 2002 - Tuvia Wisner, 79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlinsky, 70, of Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

Lt. Boaz Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt. Roman Shliapstein, 22, of Ma'ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF anti-terrorist action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield).

Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Israeli tanks and bulldozers attack Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound, the Palestinian leader is confined to the basement and vows that he would rather die than surrender. It is first stage of what the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, says would be a " long complicated war that knows no borders".

• Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with two Palestinians trying to cross into Israel to carry out a suicide attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

The US president, George Bush, urges Yasser Arafat – still under seige- to do more to clamp down on terrorism, but urges Israel to remember that a peaceful solution must be found to the crisis. The US also backs a UN security council resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories.

In Tel Aviv a sucide bomber strikes, killing himself and wounding more than 20 others.

The bodies of Arafat's elite terrorist group, Force 17, who appear to have been executed are carried out of a bank in Ramallah.

• Mar 31, 2002 - 14 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

The victims: Suheil Adawi, 32, of Turan; Dov Chernevroda, 67, of Haifa; Shimon Koren, 55; his sons Ran, 18, and Gal, 15, of Haifa; Moshe Levin, 52, of Haifa; Danielle Manchell, 22, of Haifa; Orly Ofir, 16, of Haifa; Aviel Ron, 54; his son Ofer, 18, and daughter Anat, 21, of Haifa; Ya'akov Shani, 53, of Haifa; Adi Shiran, 17, of Haifa; Daniel Carlos Wegman, 50, of Haifa.

Carlos Yerushalmi, 52, of Karkur, died on April 1 of wounds sustained in the attack.

• Apr 1, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj. Ofir Roth, 22, of Gan Yoshiya, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed at a roadblock near Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood by a Palestinian sniper firing from Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem.

Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Tanks are put outside TulKarem & Bethlehem, Palestinian collaborators are lynched by militants and in an ominous sign, Iranian-backed Hizbullah guerrillas in Lebanon fired a Katyusha rocket into Israel. Yasser Arafat spends his fourth day under siege, with George Bush calling on him to do more to "denounce" terror.

Israeli warplanes, armour and infantry launch a huge attack on Bethlehem as Ariel Sharon pushes ahead with the second phase of his five-day long assault on Palestinian targets. Gunships fire missiles into a number of targets around Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity with witnesses describing desperate close quarter fighting in the old part of Bethlehem.

Israeli Armed and Engineering Units Face Resistance in Push Tuesday Night into Strongholds of al Aqsa Brigades Suicides of Jenin and Salfit – Four Palestinians Killed, 2 Israeli Soldiers Lightly Injured.

These Incursions into Fifth and Sixth West Bank Towns All But Complete Israeli Control of Palestinian West Bank Cities Ramallah, Qalqilya, Tulkarm and Bethlehem Taken Earlier.

• Apr 3, 2002 (Last Day of the Feast of Unleaven Bread) - IDF reservist Maj. Moshe Gerstner, 29, of Rishon Lezion was killed in Jenin during anti-terrorist action (Operation Defensive Shield).

The attack on Bethlehem and siege of Ramallah continue as diplomatic tensions grow. The Vatican denounces the military operation on the West Bank and Egypt limits its ties with Israel. More rockets are fired into norhern Israel by Hizbollah fighters on the Lebanese border and Syria announces it is to deploy 20,000 troops in the country.

Hundreds of Armed Palestinians Holed up in Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity with Group of Priests and Nuns Keep up Fire Against Surrounding Israeli Tank Force.

Israeli Troops Bring Mediator to Negotiate End of Crisis Without Harm to Hostages and Ancient Shrine.

Latin Patriarch Sabah Claims Beleaguered Men Retreated to Church for Sanctuary, Have Laid Down Arms.

19:15 IT Wednesday: Large-Scale Israeli Special Force Units Massed in Bethlehem’s Manger Square Around Church of Nativity, They Encircle 200 Tanzim-Dahaisha Terror Activists Holed up Inside Holding Priests and Nuns Hostage.

Israeli Forces Enter Rajoub’s Command Center in Bitunya after Four-Day Siege, Capture 12 Wanted Terrorists, Including Hamas Terror Executive Selim Hijazi, Who Masterminded Jerusalem Pizzeria Massacre, and Quantity of Weapons.

Abayat Clansmen Who Ruled Bethlehem Area Under Command of Palestinian Security Chief Tirawi Flee to Judean Desert Caves, Pursued by Israeli Troops.

• Apr 4, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Border Police Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Einan Sharabi, 32, of Rehovot; Lt. Nissim Ben-David, 22, of Ashdod; and St.-Sgt. Gad Ezra, 23, of Bat-Yam were killed during the IDF anti-terrorist action in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).

The US president, George Bush, tells Mr Sharon to end West Bank occupation and blames Mr Arafat for failing to halt a wave of suicide bombings. There are fears of wider conflict as the army pushes on to Nablus, the Bethlehem standoff goes on and troops enter Hebron.

In Tuesday’s Battles in Bethlehem, 3 Israeli Troops Lightly Wounded, 7 Palestinians Reported Killed, 25 Surrender.

On Israel’s Northern Border, Hizballah Continues Shelling Israeli Positions Tuesday Night, Countered by Israeli Air Raids.

Two Suicide Attacks Thwarted Tuesday Night on West Bank- Baq’a al Garbiyeh Border and Central Negev.

Egypt Severs Relations with Israel – Excepting Diplomatic Ties.

Heavy Israeli Tank, Infantry and Engineering Forces Drive Into Seventh

• Apr 5, 2002 - Sgt. Merom Fisher, 19, of Moshav Avigdor; Sgt. Ro'i Tal, 21, of Ma'alot; and Sgt. Oded Kornfein, 20, of Kibbutz Ha'on - were killed in exchanges of fire between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).

Against a backdrop of continuing gun battles in major West Bank towns, General Zinni, the US envoy, becomes the first international representative to meet Mr Arafat since he was confined to his Ramallah headquarters last week. West Bank residents are once more forced to stay indoors.

Iranian Leader Khamenei Calls for One-Month Oil Embargo Against Pro-Israeli Western Nations.

Six Senior Hamas Activists Killed in Fierce Day-Long Battle and Siege in West Bank Village of Tubas, East of Nablus

• Apr 6: St.-Sgt.(res.) Nisan Avraham, 26, of Lod was killed and five other soldiers were injured early Saturday morning when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at the entrance to Rafiah Yam in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians, members of the Islamic Jihad, were killed.

Syria’s Main Missile and Chemical Weapons Facility at Homs Blown up in Mysterious Explosions on March 24. North Koreans Among Tens of Engineers and Technicians Killed in Underground Plant,

Factory Manufactured Scud-C and Scud-D, Liquid and Solid Fuels, Chemical Warheads, Oxidizers. Syrians Suspect Israeli Undercover Saboteurs Struck in Reprisal for Syrian Military Intelligence Aid in Terrorist Hit against Galilee Highway on March 12 - Or US Reprisal for Free al Qaeda Transit through Syria.

• April 7: (10:30) Gaza Strip bombing foiled overnight
• (13:50) Knesset approves IDF request for 31,000 reservists
• (14:45) Pope denounces 'thirst for revenge' in fighting
• (15:30) Belgian FM: EU should reconsider trade ties with Israel
• (17:30) Hizbullah fires mortar shells at Har Dov area in north
• (18:20) Battles continue in Jenin, Nablus. Fierce fighting in the Jenin refugee camp cost the lives of three soldiers over a weekend that also saw troops move into the Nablus casbah.
• Nine Palestinians, including a local Fatah commander, died in Nablus today.
• An IDF official says fighting in Jenin will end soon.

Jeremiah HaNavi comments in two places "Peace, peace!' When there is no peace. (Jer. 6:14 & 8:11)” 

The Hebrew text reads “molaS Nyaw molaS molaS.”  But as the Holy Scriptures says, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh (The Man of Peace) comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people. (Gen. 49:10)”

I was grieved when I heard our President give his “Enough Is Enough” speech Saturday 4/6/02.  If the US stays its anemic course being neither for nor against Israel and insist on Israeli capitulation in their struggle for survival against the PLO George W. Bush will be a one term president just like his father.

Realistically, there can be no peace in Israel until the hearts of  the people are changed at the coming of Messiah, Rebbe YahShua haMoshiach.  He will return the hearts of the people to true spiritual worship of Yahweh.

A Messianic prophecy was given to Isaiah ben Uzzi, “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder.  And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty Elohim,  Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Yahweh of hosts will perform this. (Isa. 9:6,7)”

Yet, the Commonwealth of Israel has yet the greatest future of any people. "Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel - YAHWEH hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy. The king of Israel, even YAHWEH is in the midst of thee. Thou shalt not see evil any more (Zeph. 3:14-15). Vs. 19-20: "Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee, and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame...I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes saith the Lord." Really a glorious future! "In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the Tzitzit of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that YAHWEH is with you" (Zech. 8:23).

In Ezek. 37 we have a picture of the dead hope of Israel revived. Vs. 12: "Thus saith YAHWEH Elohim; Behold, O my people, I will reopen your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel." (As a scattered and persecuted people Israel has been buried among the nations). Vs. 13: "And ye shall know that I am YAHWEH, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves." Vs. 14: "And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I YAHWEH have spoken it, and performed it, saith YAHWEH.

Ezekiel was then instructed to take two sticks and on one to write "For Judah, and for the children of Israel and his companions (converts)," and on the other, "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim (the leading tribe of the 10 tribes), and for the house of Israel and his companions (converts)." He was then instructed to "join them one to another into one stick." What does this mean? The prophet leaves no doubt as to the meaning. In vs. 21, 22, we read, "Thus saith YAHWEH Elohim; Behold, I will take the children of Israel (12 tribes) from among the heathen (nations) whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one nation (they were one nation - 12 tribes - when Sha’ul, David, and Solomon reigned over them) in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king (Messiah) shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all." Vs. 24, "And David (meaning the Beloved or Messiah ben David) my servant shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd." Vs. 25, "And my servant David (Messiah) shall be their prince for ever." Vs. 26, "And I will set my Sanctuary (house of prayer for all nations - see Isa. 56 & Ezek. 48:8) in the midst of them for evermore." Vs. 28, "And the heathen (goyim or nations) shall know that I YAHWEH do Sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore."

If we understand Scripture prophecy and if Talmudic timelines are correct, then we stand at the edge of the Seventh Hebrew Millennium, the Sabbath Millennium, or the Messianic Age. Yet several significant milestones must be passed before we can enter in to a time of peace as is recorded in Daniel, Revelation and Matthew 24.

State of Israel established in 1948

Jerusalem returns to Jewish control in 1967. Luke 21:24

G-dlessness in the last days - 2 Timothy 3:1-5,7

False Messiahs. Prelude to the First Seal - Matthew 24:5,11

Wars and Rumors of Wars. Prelude to the Second Seal - Matthew 24:6

Famines. Prelude to the Third Seal - Matthew 24:7

Pestilences - Matthew 24:7

Earthquakes - Matthew 24:7

Seven-year covenant Moshiach Naged returns Israel to a Torah based Society. Daniel 9:27

Moshiach Naged is revealed. 1st Seal - White Horseman 2 Thessalonians 2:3,6-7, Daniel 11:36 Revelation 6:1-2

Rebuilding of the Third Temple in Jerusalem -Daniel 9:27

Moshiach Naged makes the Golem-False Prophet is revealed. Revelation 13:11, Matthew 24:11

Miracles of the False Prophet cause deception amongst the people of the world. Revelation 11:13-14, Matthew 24:24

War - 2nd Seal - Revelation 6:3-4, Matthew 24:6

Mark of the Beast is required on all people to buy or sell. This signifies worship of the Beast. Revelation 11:16-18

Famine - 3rd Seal - Revelation 6:5-6, Matthew 24:7

Resurrection of the Beast/Moshiach Naged after a fatal wound. Revelation 11:12

Two witnesses of Yahweh prophesy against the Moshiach Naged causing drought and plagues to come upon the earth. Revelation 11:3-6

Persecutions of Diaspora Begins - Matthew 24:21-22, Revelation 13:5-7

Death - 4th Seal - One-fourth of the world's population are killed by the Moshiach Naged/Beast with the sword and with starvation. None can buy without taking the mark of the Beast. - Revelation 6:7-8

Martyrs cry out to the Lord. - 5th Seal - Revelation 6:9-11, 2 Timothy 3:12, Daniel 7:25

Signs in the Sky - 6th Seal - (Great Earthquake, Bloody Moon, Blackout of the Sun, Meteors falling, Mountains and Islands moving, Sky splits apart) Revelation 6:12-14, Matthew 24:29, Joel 2:30-31, 3:14-16

144,000 Tzaddikkim of the tribe of Israel are sealed - Revelation 7:2-4

Martyrs stand before Yahweh - Revelation 7:9-17

7th Seal - Trumpet Judgments of the Wrath of Yahweh - Revelation 8:1,6

1st Trumpet - Hail and Fire Destruction of all the grass and 1/3 of trees. Revelation 8:7

2nd Trumpet - Meteor falls into the Ocean destroying 1/3 of ships and sea life. Revelation 8:8-9

3rd Trumpet -Wormwood falls from the Heavens causing fresh water to become bitter. Revelation 8:10-11

4th Trumpet - Darkening of a third of the sun, moon, and stars. Revelation 8:12, Joel 3:13

5th Trumpet - Locusts from the Bottomless Pit and Blackout of the Sun #2. Revelation 9:1-10

6th Trumpet - Eastern army of 200,000,000 men kill 1/3 of mankind. Revelation 9:13-19

Death of the Two Witnesses. Revelation 11:7-10

Resurrection of the Two Witnesses on the Third day occurring in view of the World. Revelation 11:11-12

Earthquake strikes Jerusalem destroying 1/10 of the city - Revelation 11:13

7th Trumpet - Consists of seven Bowl Judgments of the Wrath of Yahweh.

1st Bowl - Sores on men with the Mark of the Beast. Revelation 16:2

2nd Bowl - All creatures in the sea die. Revelation 16:3

3rd Bowl - Rivers and springs become blood. Revelation 16:4

4th Bowl - Sun scorches the earth. Revelation 16:8-9

5th Bowl - Kingdom of the Antichrist/Beast becomes full of darkness. Revelation 16:10-11

6th Bowl - Euphrates river dries up allowing the Eastern army to move to Armageddon. Revelation 16:12

7th Bowl - Greatest earthquake ever, Spiritual Babylon and/or Rome is destroyed. Revelation 16:17-19,

Jeremiah 51:24,26

Gathering of the Moshiach Naged, kings and, armies of the world. Zechariah 14:2-5, Revelation 16:13-14,16, Revelation 19:19, Daniel 11:40-45

Final Conquest and Plundering of Jerusalem. Joel 3:2,12, Zechariah 14:2,3

Second Coming - Revelation 19:11, Zechariah 14:3-5

Beast and False Prophet thrown into the Lake of Fire. Revelation 19:20-21

Destruction of the armies by the Torah. Revelation 20:15,21, Zechariah 12:98, 14:2-5,12

To this we say, “O YAHWEH, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me. (Ps. 22:19)  Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior. (Ps. 38:12) …come quickly to me, O YAHWEH. You are my help and my deliverer; O YAHWEH, do not delay. (Ps. 70:5) Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O YAHWEH! (Joel 3:11)”  “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones (Jude 14)   After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. (1 Thess. 4:17)  For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.  The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of YAHWEH will bestow. You will be a crown of splendor in the YAHWEH's hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your Elohim. No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah,  and your land Beulah ^.; for YAHWEH will take delight in you, and your land will be married. (Isa. 62:1-4)”

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