** Peace process in the Israeli – Palestinian conflict, efforts since c. 1991 to find a political accommodation for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer

** Israeli – Palestinian conflict ( Early 20th century – present )

** 1948 Arab – Israeli War ( 1948 – 1949 ) – The war was fought between the newly declared State of Israel and its Arab neighbours.

** Shlomo Lorincz, member of Israeli Knesset for Agudat Yisrael ( d. 2009 )

** Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist ( d. 2010 )

** The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as President of Israel.

** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.

** On their way to Lebanon, 2 Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73.

** In the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.

** Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer

** Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature ( b. 1876 )

** Amos Elon, Israeli writer ( d. 2009 )

** 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated ; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel and clash with Israeli forces.

** Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

** Akiva Vroman, Dutch-born Israeli geologist and Israel Prize recipient ( d. 1989 )

** Manfred Aschner, German-born Israeli microbiologist and entomologist, recipient of the Israel Prize ( died 1989 ).

** Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-born Israeli agronomist ( died 1999 )

** Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, Israeli assassin ( executed ) ( b. 1922 )

** Eliyahu Hakim, Israeli assassin ( executed ) ( b. 1925 )

** Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player

** An Israeli gunman kills 7 Palestinians, leading to bloody riots in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.

** The Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, wins a narrow victory in the Israeli general election.

** Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.

** Ministers of Defence of Estonia

** Ministry of Defence ()

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** In Ciskei, members of the Ciskei Defence Force loyal to dictator Oupa Gqozo open into a crowd of anti-Gqozo protestors organized by the African National Congress, killing at least 28 people and wounding nearly 200.

** Milltown Cemetery Attack: During the funeral of three Provisional IRA members in Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) member Michael Stone attacked the crowd with grenades and pistols, killing three and wounding over sixty.

** Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.

** The Naval Defence Act dictates that the fleet strength of the British Royal Navy must be equal to that of at least any two other countries.

** In Northern Ireland, Protestant Ulster Defence Association Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.

** The body of David Kelly, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, is found a few miles from his home, leading to the Hutton inquiry.

** Defence Signals Directorate ( DSD )

** Defence Intelligence Organisation ( DIO )

** Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation ( DIGO )

** Sabre Defence

** Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Minister of Defence of Soviet Union ( b. 1911 )

** Pavel Grachev, Defence Minister of the Russian Federation ( b. 1948 )

** Stonewall Variation in the Dutch Defence

** Canal Defence Light

** Die Sturmgesellen: Ein Wort zur Abwehr (" Stormfellows: a Defence ", essay, 1903 )

** The Second World War: Defence of Arras, Ypres-Comines Canal, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Saar, Breville, Odon, Fontenay le Pesnil, Defence of Rauray, Caen, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44-45, Barkasan, British Somaliland 1940, Tobruk 1941, Tobruk Sortie, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Medenine, Zemlet el Lebene, Mareth, Akarit, Wadi Akarit East, Djebel Roumana, Medjez Plain, Si Mediene, Tunis, North Africa 1941-43, Landing in Sicily, Vizzini, Sferro, Gerbini, Adrano, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Advance to Florence, Monte Scalari, Casa Fortis, Rimini Line, Casa Fabbri Ridge, Savio Bridgehead, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, Chindits 1944, Burma 1944

** William Bullein-Bullein's Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes

** 13 January 1957-14 October 1959 Minister of Defence

** Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management ( Te Rākau Whakamarumaru )

** Weather and Environmental Prediction and Services ( Defence Weather Services, Marine and Ice Services Ice Service ), National Weather Predictions, Weatheradio Canada, a national system of emergency weather broadcast transmitters )

** Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff