Before the Israeli military occupied Sinai during the June 1967 War ( Arab-Israeli war, also known as the Six-Day War ), a single Egyptian governorate administered the whole peninsula.

During the Sinai campaign of November 1956, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops.

However conflict with the Arab states and the Palestinians, much of whose territory was occupied by Israel during the 1967 war, continues to play a major role in Israeli ( and international ) political, social and economic life.

The Syrians remained in control of a strip of territory along the Sea of Galilee originally allocated to the Jewish state, the Lebanese occupied a tiny area at Rosh Hanikra and the Egyptians retained the Gaza strip and still had some forces surrounded inside Israeli territory.

Israeli settlements in the occupied territories ( commonly referred to as simply Israeli settlements ) are the Jewish civilian communities built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

* 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away.

The main plank of Saudi policy on the issue remains the Arab Peace Initiative, first launched by King Abdullah, as the then Crown Prince, in 2002: Arab governments would offer " normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

Resolution 242, which became the basis for the peace process negotiations begun in Madrid, calls for a just and lasting Middle East peace to include withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in 1967 ; termination of the state of belligerency ; and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence of all regional states and of their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries.

Subsequently, in what is known in Egypt as the Tripartite Aggression, Israeli forces, aided by Britain, and France ( which sought to reverse the nationalisation and regain control over the Suez Canal ), invaded Sinai and occupied much of the peninsula within a few days.

Upon becoming President of Egypt following the death in office of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict, offering peace and recognition to Israel in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from all the Egyptian, Palestinian, and Syrian territory occupied in 1967, and a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem.

Though the Egyptians maintained control of most of the east bank of the Canal, in the later stages of the war, the Israeli military crossed the southern section of Canal, cutting off the Egyptian 3rd Army, and occupied a section of the west bank.

President Carter asked for a State Department report " to determine if there was any justice to the Israeli position that the resolution did not include all the occupied territories ".

A State Department study noted that when King Hussein met on 8 November with Lyndon Johnson, who had been briefed by Secretary Rusk on the US interpretation, the Jordanian Monarch asked how soon the Israeli troops would withdraw from most of the occupied lands.

Ekman countered the statement, saying that the donations never have been to occupied territories, but to settlements on Israeli ground, for example in the Negev desert.

He has stated that, " I, and the Fatah movement to which I belong, strongly oppose attacks and the targeting of civilians inside Israel, our future neighbor, I reserve the right to protect myself, to resist the Israeli occupation of my country and to fight for my freedom " and has said, " I still seek peaceful coexistence between the equal and independent countries of Israel and Palestine based on full withdrawal from Palestinian territories occupied in 1967.

On the McLauglin Group, Buchanan has made such comments as “‘ Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory ’ and ‘ If you want to know ethnicity and power in the United States Senate, 13 members of the Senate are Jewish folks who are from 2 percent of the population.

A controversy arose following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied territory in Southern Lebanon on May 24, 2000.

As neither Syria nor Lebanon have access to the area, Assad argues that resolution is waiting on Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territory.

Hawass said that the decision was made at " a time when Muslim holy sites in occupied Palestine face assaults from Israeli occupation forces and settlers ".

On 23 October 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Fourth Battalion of Israel's Giv ' ati Brigade occupied ' Ajjur in the northern front of Operation Yoav, unifying Israeli military operations in the southern and western fronts.

The party supports evacuation of all Israeli settlements, a complete withdrawal by Israel from all territories occupied as a result of the Six-Day War, and the establishment of a Palestinian state in those territories.

Israel recaptured both the formerly Israeli occupied sector and the pre-Yom Kippur War Syrian controlled sector on October 21, during Operation Dessert.

In the Jordanian sector, most problems arose in relation to the illegal crossing of the border and in respect of the situation in Jerusalem, there in particular the control of the periodic convoys providing supplies to the Israeli enclave at Mont Scopus.

However, the impact on the services sector, including the important Israeli tourist industry, was notably negative.

The Israeli government has 28 ministries, each of them responsible for a sector of public administration.

Co-operation has taken place in the space sector as well with India launching Israeli satellites.

July 20 – 28, 1969: Operation Boxer – Nearly the entire Israeli Air Force attacks the northern sector of the Canal, destroying anti-aircraft positions, tanks and artillery, and shooting down eight Egyptian aircraft.

They instead see a need for Israeli society to enable people to express the differences and the exclusivity of every stream and sector.

The Israeli controlled sector was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War of June 1967.

In a reply to the resolution, Israel denied that these measures constituted annexation, but the Israeli Supreme Court later ruled that the Jerusalem's eastern sector had become a part of Israel.

It provides grant money to joint ventures between American and Israeli academics and private sector companies that conduct research and develop energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies.

While music education for Israeli Arabs is less developed, there has been a steady growth of opportunities in this sector.

The ceasefire of 1949 left Hadassah Hospital and the university enclave cut off from the Israeli sector of the city.

He went on to serve in a number of key positions in the Israeli public sector.

The next day, SLA forward positions in the eastern sector collapsed and Israeli forces began their general withdrawal from the remaining areas of the security zone.

On the Southern Front, the Egyptian Third Army was surrounded in the Sinai, and Israeli troops had occupied the southern sector of the west bank of the Suez Canal fighting with the unconventional tactics of General Ariel Sharon.

During her term, she attempted to increase competition in the Israeli communications sector by weakening and privatizing Bezeq, which had previously held a monopoly over the country's landline phone sector.

And it does so not just for Israeli Arabs but for every disadvantaged sector of Israeli society, from orthodox women trapped by the Agunah, to Ethiopian immigrants struggling against discrimination, to Bedouin villages seeking government funding for basic infrastructure.

Highway 6 is the first Israeli BOT road constructed, carried out mainly by the private sector in return for a license to collect tolls on the highway for a given number of years.

The Israeli Gat Hepher industrial zone is erected on that mountain.

A Samaritan village ( Kiryat Luza ) and an Israeli settlement ( Har Bracha ) are situated on the mountain ridge.