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Context and Causes of Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli communal clashes, October 2000

During the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian clashes, Arab ciitizens of Israel clashed with Jewish- Israelis. By comparison in October 2000, similar clashes were longer, more intense with similar underlying causation. Read the context with the findings of the Or Commission Report that investigated them.

Issues & Analyses | June 5, 2021
As President, Herzog Offers Advancement of Israel-Diaspora Ties

Isaac “Bougie” Herzog’s election as Israel’s 11th president on June 2 was such “big” news that it was all but impossible to find on the home page of The Times of Israel a day later. That’s because reporting on a largely ceremonial position was overwhelmed by the end of a two-year wait for the monumental announcement of an eight-party government coalition, including Islamist Arabs and religious Zionist Jews, to unseat the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history.

Michael Jacobs | June 4, 2021
Hamas Charter totally rejects Israel and Zionism – 1988

Hamas absolutely opposes Israel's right to exist, with its leadership repeatedly declaring that all of Palestine belongs to Moslems.

Issues & Analyses | May 27, 2021

Today in Israeli History

3 Teens Abducted, Killed

June 12
Google Buys Waze

June 11
National Water Carrier Begins Pumping

June 10
General and Politician Benny Gantz Born

June 9
Educator and Politician Chaim Boger Dies

June 8
Iraq’s Nuclear Reactor Destroyed

June 7
Merger Forms Tel Aviv University

June 6

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Documents and Sources

Israel’s Unique Heritage

Content, Context and Perspective

Know Your Past • Own Your Present • Assure Your Future

20th CIE/ISMI Enrichment Workshop on Modern Israel

Issues & Analyses

Context and Causes of Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli communal clashes, October 2000

As President, Herzog Offers Advancement of Israel-Diaspora Ties

Hamas Charter totally rejects Israel and Zionism – 1988

Today in Israeli History

3 Teens Abducted, Killed

Google Buys Waze

National Water Carrier Begins Pumping

General and Politician Benny Gantz Born

Educator and Politician Chaim Boger Dies

Iraq’s Nuclear Reactor Destroyed

Merger Forms Tel Aviv University

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