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Background: Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deep tensions between the two sides. The territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 war are not included in the Israel country profile, unless otherwise noted. On 25 April 1982, Israel withdrew from the Sinai pursuant to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. Israel and Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known as the "Oslo accords") guiding an interim period of Palestinian self-rule. Outstanding territorial and other disputes with Jordan were resolved in the 26 October 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally from southern Lebanon, which it had occupied since 1982. In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. On 24 June 2002, US President BUSH laid out a "road map" for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envisions a two-state solution. However, progress toward a permanent status agreement has been undermined by Palestinian-Israeli violence ongoing since September 2000. The conflict may have reached a turning point with the election in January 2005 of Mahmud ABBAS as the new Palestinian leader following the November 2004 death of Yasir ARAFAT.




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Soft landing in Israel - entry 1
1 day ago: Jastay published a blog
Soft landing in Israel - entry 1
November 5th 2009  Middle East » Israel
Greetings Everyone! Welcome to our journey, in Itay's homeland this time. Few thoughts before getting into the details...Israel is a unique country in many ways and instead of pretending to be a his ... 11 photos [full story]

Living on the Seam
2 days ago: RabbiLisa published a blog
Living on the Seam
November 5th 2009  Middle East » Israel » West Bank » Hebron
Winter made its presence known this week; it rained hard for four or five days and I pulled out my sweaters and coat. I spent Shabbat with my friend Tamar and her family north of Tel Aviv and in betw ... 6 photos [full story]

I hear Jerusalem bells a ringing
October 25th 2009  Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem
I'm sorry it's been a while since I've posted. Life here in France isn't always fun and games and travel...I do have to work a bit! Our Toussaint (All Saints' Day) holidays started on October 24, so I ... 61 photos [full story]

Shapes, Metaphors & Images
9 days ago: RabbiLisa published a blog
Shapes, Metaphors & Images
October 29th 2009  Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem
It rained a little today - just enough to make the plastic chairs on the balcony dirty. We are hoping for more rain this weekend; the Southern Californians will understand the importance of the begin ... 4 photos [full story]

Life in Israel
11 days ago: Kirgor published a blog
Life in Israel
October 26th 2009  Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa
Summary of what I have been up to the last couple of weeks: - I went to a beautiful beach half an hour drive south from here. It was a privat beach in a bay with clear blue water. Very nice. - M ... 15 photos [full story]

Class begins (finally)
14 days ago: KateVoss published a blog
Class begins (finally)
October 24th 2009  Middle East » Israel » Haifa District » Haifa
Before we had fully recovered from our week-and-a-half-long adventure in Egypt, we had to start classes. I was still hurting from my stomach bug, so I skipped orientation on Sunday and slept a ridicul ... 2 photos [full story]

14 days ago: Wayfarer5 published a blog
Hunting the wild Felafel
October 24th 2009  Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem
I'm sure better scribes than I have taken up this topic, but so what! What is the best Felafel? Where is it? Who makes it? There are a number of high priced Felafel joints in Tel-Aviv area, they pr ... [full story]

Marketplaces of ideas and things to eat
October 23rd 2009  Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem
Jerusalem has forgotten that we are a month into autumn; it has been sweltering all week! I have enough reading to do that I could sit and study all day, but there is so much going on! I had to vent ... 4 photos [full story]

Jaffa, Caesarea and the Golan
16 days ago: KateRoberts published a blog
Jaffa, Caesarea and the Golan
September 15th 2009  Middle East » Israel » North District » Golan
Tuesday, 9/15 Today we started a bit late, but set out for Jaffa and Tel Aviv about 10. Jaffa is an ancient port city on the coast on the southern side of Tel Aviv. It's history goes back 4,000 y ... 11 photos [full story]

Be
16 days ago: KateRoberts published a blog
Be'er Sheva and the Dead Sea
September 17th 2009  Middle East » Israel » South District » Be'er Sheva
Thursday, 9/17 Be'er Sheva Bedouin Market: Naya was in school again today so we were off early to Be'er Sheva, a city in the north Negev. Once a week there is a large market mainly for the loca ... 15 photos [full story]


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