* 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.

* 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel

* 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director

* 1981 – Harel Skaat, Israeli singer-songwriter

* 1952 – Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli track and field athlete

* 1981 – Maya Dunietz, Israeli pianist, singer and composer

* 1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1992 )

* 1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer ( d. 2005 )

* 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.

* 1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier

* 1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli composer

* Abie Nathan ( 1927 – 2008 ), Israeli humanitarian and peace activist

* 1970 – Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school.

* 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

* 2005 – Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician ( b. 1924 )

* Amos Bar ( 1931 – 2011 ), Israeli author, teacher, and editor

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

Category: Arab – Israeli conflict

* 1923 – Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer ( d. 2002 )

* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

* 1935 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player

* 1947 – Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger

Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat together at Camp David.

Extensive Israeli settlements have been since built around the city ; they are subject to Israeli, not Palestinian, legal authority.

On December 21, 1995, Israeli troops withdrew from Bethlehem, and three days later the city came under the complete administration and military control of the Palestinian National Authority in conformance with the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995.

The real statement was a critique of the Israeli government and its treatment of the Palestinian people.

A study done on Israeli and Palestinian students in Israel found that RWA scores of right-wing party supporters were significantly higher than those of left-wing party supporters.

On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

The Egyptian Chief of Intelligence, General Omar Suleiman, has played a substantial role in negotiations between the Israeli and Palestinian sides and is highly respected on both sides.

Among the 14 preconditions, included the release of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, freezing all Israeli settlement construction, and lifting the Gaza blockade.

Category: Israeli – Palestinian conflict

The Israeli forces left Gaza City and other urban areas, leaving the new Palestinian Authority to administer and police those areas.

The Second Intifada broke out in September 2000 with its waves of protest, civil unrest and bombings against Israeli military and civilians, many of them perpetrated by suicide bombers, and the beginning of rockets and bombings of Israeli border localities by Palestinian guerrillas from Gaza Strip, especially from Hamas and Jihad Islamic movements.

The Palestinian Authority welcomed this plan, but declared that until final status, it would still consider the Gaza Strip under Israeli occupation.

Category: Israeli – Palestinian conflict

In addition to killing Israeli civilians and armed forces, Hamas has also attacked suspected Palestinian collaborators, and Fatah rivals.

" In June 2002, shortly after the Israeli government launched Operation Defensive Shield, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he defended and praised suicide bombings of Israeli targets by members of Palestinian groups for " creating a deterrence and equalizing fear.

* First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories from December 1987 to 1993

* Second Intifada, a period of intensified Palestinian – Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005

Central Intelligence Agency | CIA remote sensing map of Greater Jerusalem, showing Israeli settlements, Palestinian refugee camps, fences, walls, etc.

" The Israeli annexing instrument, the Jerusalem Law — one of the Basic Laws of Israel that " serve in the place of a constitution "— declares Jerusalem, " complete and united ", to be the capital of Israel, creating a conflict with Palestinian claims.