A daily look back at Zionist and Israeli history.
Curated by @HummelAdam
1/ The War of Independence ended in 1949 with Israel signing a series of Armistice Agreements with Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Nevertheless, the countries maintained a state of belligerency against Israel after the agreements were signed.
1/ In March 2007, the Mossad undertook a secret raid in Vienna, which targeted the head of Syria's Atomic energy Commission. With the information gleaned from the operation, the Israelis discovered that Syria had been working with North Korea to build a nuclear reactor.
1/ During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich Germany, Israel was participating with a delegation of 15 athletes. 
1/ Antisemitism in the Arab world was rife during and immediately after World War Two. Egyptian society became enamoured with the Nazi war against the Jews, and this spread to Iraq - which had a significant Jewish population.
1/ By the time the State of Israel was established in May 1948, 3 years had passed since the end of the WW2 and the Holocaust. Given the enormity of the crime, it became difficult to choose a single day as the most appropriate to commemorate this dark time in recent history. 
1/ Menachem Begin was one of the giants of Israeli history. Born in the city of Brest, then in the Russian Empire in 1913, he saw first-hand the ravages of antisemitism. Raised in a traditional Jewish house, he was raised a fervent Zionist, when he joined Betar at age 16. 
1/ In the summer of 1954, Israel embarked on an ambitious covert operation in Egypt called Operation Susannah. The Defense Minister at the time was Pinchas Lavon. 
1/ Throughout the 1940s in British Mandatory Palestine, tensions were high. After the war, the Jewish militias launched full-throated attacks against the British to get them to evacuate Palestine. The Jews were ready for a state of their own. 
