Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.

Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so

Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.

The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.

En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.

En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.

In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a "land for peace" agreement.

Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.

Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.

Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.

Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.

Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.

Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.

Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A shooting attack at the Gay and Lesbian Association building in Tel-Aviv, Israel, results in the deaths of two people.