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.

* 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer

* 1982 – Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer

The surrender was formalized in a written agreement, where the town leaders agreed to cease hostilities in return for promises from the Israeli officers, including brigade commander Ben Dunkelman ( the leader of the operation ), that no harm would come to the civilians of the town.

* 1979 – Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer

* Tal Ben Ari ( Tula ), Israeli singer participating in the project Playing for Change

* Kōzō Okamoto is the only survivor of the group of three guerilleros attacking the Israeli Lod airport in 1972, now called Ben Gurion International Airport.

In 2004, the Israeli Ministry of Health released Ben Gurion University research findings describing the health problems in a 20 km vicinity of Ramat Hovav.

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Ben Yisrael, currently the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency, renewed his calls to implement the THEL against high-trajectory fire.

The airliner landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv about five hours later, escorted by Israeli F-15 fighter jets.

The first Israeli prime minister, David Ben Gurion, led a trend to blend the many immigrants who, in the first years of the state, had arrived from Europe, North Africa, and Asia, into one ' melting pot ' that would not differentiate between the older residents of the country and the new immigrants.

While no injuries were reported and the attacker was subdued by guards hidden among the passengers 15 minutes before the plane landed safely in Turkey, authorities did shut down Ben Gurion for some time after the attack to reassess the security situation and an investigation was opened to determine how the man, an Israeli Arab, managed to smuggle the knife past the airport security.

Calling Ben Gurion " the world ’ s safest airport ," Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, has implemented the Israeli review in order to bring state-of-the-art technology and other tactical measures to help secure LAX, considered to be the state ’ s primary terrorist target and singled out by the Al Qaeda network.

Benjamin ( Ben ) Dunkelman ( 1913 – June 11, 1997 ) was a Canadian Jewish officer who served in the Canadian Army in World War II and the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

Eliezer Ben Yehuda is credited by many as being almost single-handedly responsible for the Zionist movement's revitalization of Hebrew as a modern spoken language, although in his book " Language in Time of Revolution " the Israeli linguist and literature researcher Benjamin Harshav diminishes Ben-Yehuda's role and attributes the success of the revival to a wider movement in the Jewish society.

* Ben Zion Abba Shaul ( 1924 – 98 ), Israeli rabbi of Iranian descent

* In 1964, a Moroccan-born Israeli double agent named Mordechai Ben Masoud Louk ( also known as Josef Dahan ) was drugged, bound, and placed in a diplomatic bag at the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, but was rescued by the Italians.

During an interview with Haaretz, a popular Israeli newspaper, Ben Ammi stated that " We must understand that peace will never come, and true freedom will never come, by way of politicians ...

After 1948, a number of Israeli villages were founded on Yibna land: Kfar HaNagid and Beit Gamliel in 1949, Ben Zakai in 1950, Kfar Aviv ( originally: " Kfar HaYeor ") in 1951, Tzofiyya in 1955.

In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the phrase Ben Adam " Son of Adam " ( בן אדם ) is used as an exact translation of Mensch.

* Shlomo Ben Ami, Israeli historian, diplomat and diplomat, was minister of police

* Ben Caspit, a reporter for the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv, once said that then Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon " drags around a paltry list of achievements, but the failures don't stick to him.

Ari Ben Canaan, was born and raised on a kibbutz, but goes on to become one of the mainstays of the Israeli freedom movement.

Following the success of the series many products were marketed to the Israeli public based on the series, including: records of the songs and the sketches from the show, dolls of Kipi Ben Kipod, school supplies, clothing and beddings.