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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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