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took over for the next four years, each
becoming the other's foreign minister.
Under the Shamir government, Israel
took a hard line against Palestinian
uprisings and promoted West Bank set-
dement by Jews. Shamir maintained
Israeli leadership after a 1990 vote of no
confidence, but Likud lost the 1992
elections and he was succeeded by
Yitzhak Rabin.
Afterward: Shamir continues as
an elder statesman of the Likud
party.
BINTAMIN =TANYA=
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Netanyahu has
been described as
Israel's first "Amer-
ican" prime minister — a minor irony,
since "Bibi," as he is called, is the first
of Israel's prime ministers to be born in
Israel. (Yitzhak Rabin was born in then-
Palestine.) The son of historian Benzion
Netanyahu, Binyamin spent his teenage
and early adult years in the United
States, where his father taught at the
(1949- )
University of Pennsylvania. (His own
degree is in business administration
from MIT) His brother Yonatan led the
raid on Entebbe in 1976; Yonatan's
death is cited as one reason Netanyahu
got into politics. He has written two
scholarly books on international terror-
ism, and his series of Israeli seminars on
the matter attracted the attention of
then-U.S. ambassador Moshe Arens.
The careen Netanyahu worked his way
up quickly: from Arens's assistant to
United Nations delegate to deputy for-
eign minister. In 1993, he took over
leadership of the Likud party.
Netanyahu was elected prime minister
in May 1996.
Israel
Milestones
1700-1600 BCE (Before the Com-
mon Era)—Abraharn enters the land
of Canaan; rise of monotheism
1300-1200—Moses leads the Exodus
from Egypt and receives the Ten
Commandments
636-1099—Arabic and Islamic rule
1099-1291—Crusader period
1291-1516—Islam restored under
Mamluk rule
1517-1917—Ottoman rule
1020-586—Independent Israelite
Monarchy with Jerusalem as its capi-
tal
to Israel
586—Babylonian Exile begins
1917—Balfour Declaration
538-142—Persian and Hellenic peri-
1918-1948—British Mandatory rule
1882-1903—Jewish pioneers return
ods; Jewish people return to Israel;
building of the Second Temple in
Jerusalem
tition Palestine
63BCE-313CE (Common Era)—
May 14, 1948—State of Israel estab-
Roman rule; destruction of the Sec-
ond Temple (70CE)
313-636--Byzantine rule
1947—United Nations votes to par-
lished; the United States is the first
country to recognize the Jewish state
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