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| 1948 |
| | | 700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The UN mediator in Palestine, Folke Bernadotte, proposes a peace plan involving the partition of Palestine | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Jewish terrorists, opposed to the partition of Palestine, murder the UN peacemaker Folke Bernadotte | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Jordan occupies the West Bank area of Palestine af the end of the Arab-Israeli war | |
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| 1951 |
| | | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | |
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| 1960 |
| | | Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, discovered in Buenos Aires, is kidnapped by Israeli agents | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in an Israeli court in Jerusalem, with TV cameras permitted to broadcast the event live around the world | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Adolf Eichmann, convicted in Israel for his role in the Holocaust, is hanged in Tel Aviv | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, in the first such meeting since 1438 | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded at a congress in East Jerusalem, then part of Jordan | |
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