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

During the period of Israeli control, Israel created a settlement bloc, Gush Katif, in the southwest corner of the Strip near Rafah and the Egyptian border.

Under the plan, all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip ( and four in the West Bank ) and the joint Israeli-Palestinian Erez Industrial Zone were dismantled with the removal of all 9, 000 Israeli settlers ( most of them in the Gush Katif settlement area in the Strip's southwest ) and military bases.

In April 2012, UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon, in response to moves by Israel to legalise Israeli outposts, reiterated that all settlement activity is illegal, and " runs contrary to Israel's obligations under the Road Map and repeated Quartet calls for the parties to refrain from provocations.

The last new West Bank settlement to be authorised by the Israeli government was in 1999.

See also: Israeli settlement timeline

Ariel, West Bank ( Israeli settlement )

* 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

* Slav ( village ), a former Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip

Israel expelled thousands of Egyptians from Sinai, and commenced efforts at large scale Israeli settlement in the peninsula, concurrently with similar settlement in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights.

The Israeli pull-out involved dismantling almost all Israeli settlements, including the settlement of Yamit in north-eastern Sinai.

Map of Israeli settlement s administered by the Shomron Regional Council in the West Bank

He resettled to the Kiryat Arba settlement in the West Bank, and was politically active for years – he saw Rabbi Meir Kahane as a hero, and had been Kahane's campaign manager when he ran for the Israeli parliament through Kahane's Kach party.

** 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.

* November 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab – Israeli peace settlement.

* February 9: Dov and Gabriella Weiss of Giv ' at Ze ' ev, an Israeli settlement outside of Jerusalem, were found bludgeoned to death in their home.

* November 18: an Israeli soldier killed by a senior Palestinian preventive security officer while guarding a settlement in Gaza strip.

* 3 March: A Palestinian sniper kills seven Israeli soldiers and three civilians at an IDF roadblock near the settlement of Ofra.

* 7 March: Five Israeli teenagers were killed and 23 injured when a Hamas gunmen infiltrated the Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona, opening fire and throwing hand grenades at the school and nearby houses.

* 18 September: The charred body of a 67-year old Israeli construction contractor was found near al-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near the settlement of Ma ' ale Adummim, east of Jerusalem.

In the Gaza Strip Israeli troops killed two Hamas members which were attempting an attack on the Netzarim settlement.

After a failed attempt in the 1930s to start an Israeli movement, the World Union for Progressive Judaism tried again in the 1970s and created the movement now known as the Israeli Progressive Movement.

It was originally created to dispose of the remains of buildings destroyed in Israeli air strikes during the 1982 invasion, but it is now the main dump for the city.

The take-over created severe conflict with Arab shopkeepers in the same area, who appealed twice to the Israeli Supreme Court, without success.

After Israel gained its independence in May 1948, the Israeli parliament created two laws regarding immigration, citizenship and naturalization: the Law of Return and the Israeli nationality law.

During his term, Peres promoted the use of the Internet in Israel and created the first website of an Israeli prime minister.

For the first time, reactive armour, created on the basis of the German experience, was installed on Israeli tanks during the Arab-Israeli Conflict in 1982 ( the Lebanon War ) and was judged effective.

Israel has provided humanitarian assistance to developing countries in Asia, Africa, South America, Oceania, and Central Europe through the activities of Mashav, the Israeli Center for International Cooperation, created in 1958, with the goal to give developing countries the knowledge, tools, and expertise that Israel gained in its own development, and its ability to " make the desert flourish ".

The Israeli political movement Peace Now in 1994 has created an initiative called Ir Shalem, the goal of which is to build a peaceful equitable and inspiring future for this city, with Jewish and Arab citizens working together to find solutions based on equity and justice.

He created the Seeds of Peace International Camp in Otisfield, Maine, USA, and brought together several dozen Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian teens.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) was created after the incursion, following the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, restore international peace and security, and help the government of Lebanon restore its effective authority in the area.

The issues of Israeli settlement withdrawal from the Sinai and the status of the West Bank created what seemed to be an impasse.

In 1996, Israeli writer Joshua Sobol and Austrian director Paulus Manker created the polydrama Alma.

Choreographer Yonatan Karmon created the Karmiel Dance Festival to continue the tradition of Gurit Kadman's Dalia Festival of Israeli dance, which ended in the 1960s.

During his year old term in office, he created the " science flowers " project, which helped universities get to the Israeli periphery and helped under privileged students to excel.

MacKay's statements in support of the Israeli during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict created a national debate in Canada, especially among Arabs and Muslim Canadians who opposed MacKay's position.

He argues that these ideas are simply false, created not by historians but by the participants in the 1948 war, who wrote about the events they had taken part in without the benefit of access to Israeli government archives, which were first opened up in the early 1980s.

The continuing Israeli – Palestinian conflict has created tensions between the Catholic Church and Israel.

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the " 10th of Ramadan War " in Arab countries, broke Israeli over-confidence created after the victory of the Six-Day War.

Most Jews celebrated the event as a liberation of the city ; a new Israeli holiday was created, Jerusalem Day ( Yom Yerushalayim ), and the most popular secular Hebrew song, " Jerusalem of Gold " ( Yerushalayim shel zahav ), became popular in celebration.

This became the base for deciding cases brought up by Arabs when certain Israeli settlements were created on presumed barren land ( see Halamish ).

The Jewish branch of the Russian Mafia has created tremendous problems for the Israeli government.