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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Avraham Stern forms the Stern Gang, a new Jewish terrorist group in Palestine and an offshoot of Irgun | |
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| 1942 |
| | | Yitzhak Shamir becomes leader of the terrorist Stern gang in Palestine | |
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| 1943 |
| | | Future Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin becomes leader of the underground terrorist group Irgun | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The UN puts forward a plan for the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states | |
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| c. 1947 |
| | | An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Israel declares its independence as a new Jewish state, with David Ben-Gurion as prime minister | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Six Arab states attack Israel in support of the Palestinians, starting the first Arab-Israeli war | |
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