During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

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

During the period of 8500-7500 BC another hunter-gatherer group, showing clear affinities with the cultures of Egypt ( particularly the Outacha retouch technique for working stone ) was in Sinai.

During the crossing of the Sinai Desert, Daud dies when he stumbles into quicksand.

During the Suez Crisis Johnson supported the Anglo-French military attempt to topple the Egyptian dictator Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, and tried to prevent the US government from criticising the Israeli invasion of the Sinai peninsula.

During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I, Petah Tikva served as a refugee town for residents of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, following their exile by the Ottoman authorities due to their refusal to serve the Ottoman army to fight the invading British forces.

During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I Australian Sappers repaired a bridge at the historic crossing of the Jordan River at Jisr Benat Yakub ( also known as Jacob's Ford.

During the Sinai Campaign of 1956, the brigade was stationed along the Jordanian border, in case the Jordanians decided to open a second front, and was thus not involved in combat.

During its years in office, Israel has fought the 1956 Sinai War, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.

During the First World War, the division fought at Gallipoli, in the Middle East ( Sinai and Palestine ), and on the Western Front in France.

During that period, Georgian monasteries were founded outside the country, most notably on Mount Sinai, Mount Athos ( the Iviron monastery, where the Theotokos Iverskaya icon is still located ), and in Palestine.

During the seventh century, the isolated Christian anchorites of the Sinai were eliminated: only the fortified monastery remained.

During the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israel Defense Force captured Rafah with the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, the population was about 55, 000, of whom only 11, 000 lived in Rafah itself.

During 1916 and 1917, the EEF, commanded by Sir Archibald Murray and later by Edmund Allenby, had pushed the Central Powers ' Yildirim Army Group commanded by Erich von Falkenhayn and later by Otto Liman von Sanders back from the Suez Canal and out of the Sinai and southern Palestine.

During this time they visited Mount Sinai, and Ehrenberg became one of the first naturalists to study the marine life of the Red Sea.

During that war he served on the staff of Sir Ian Hamilton at Gallipoli landing with the ANZACs on the first day of that campaign ; took part in a special British mission to Petrograd to improve Anglo-Russian liaison ; visited Basra to update his study of commerce in the Persian Gulf ; and, after a time in Cairo, with T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Bureau in Hejaz, the Negev and the Sinai desert.

During the 1956 Suez War, Lieutenant Colonel Adan commanded the 82nd battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade in the Sinai, defeating several Egyptian forces in the region.

During the June 1967 Six-Day War, Adan was the deputy commander of the Armored Corps and of the 31st Armored Division, fighting again in the Sinai.

During the reign of Ramesses II ( 1303-1213 BCE ) Deir al-Balah became the furthest east of six garrisoned fortresses in the Eastern Mediterranean, beginning with the Sinai fort in the west.

During the 1956 Sinai Campaign, he commanded the 77th Division, which operated on the Rafah – el-Arish – Kantara front.

During the parade, Laskov displayed Israel's latest military hardware, including weapons captured from Egypt in the Sinai and from Syria during clashes in the Hula Valley.

During the Six-Day War in 1967, he was the operations chief of a brigade that broke through Egyptian fortifications in the Sinai.

During the Yom Kippur War Major General Mandler was the commander of the IDF in Sinai.

During World War II, Eleven Assyrian companies saw action in Palestine and another four served in Cyprus.

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, some of the units located in the British Mandate of Palestine were sent to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars.

During the 1860s the family was banished from Constantinople to Adrianople, and then finally to the penal-colony of Acre, Palestine when he was 24.

During the final years of the 19th century, while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still officially a prisoner and confined to ` Akka, he organized the transfer of the remains of the Báb from Iran to Palestine.

During the first meeting between Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what Weizmann's objections were to the idea of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, ( the Uganda Protectorate in East Africa in the British Uganda Programme ), rather than in Palestine.

During the Crusades, both Muslims and Jews in Palestine were indiscriminately massacred or sold into slavery.

During the First Aliyah, between 1882 and 1903, approximately 35, 000 Jews moved to Palestine.

During the whole interwar period, the British, appealing to the terms of the Mandate, rejected the principle of majority rule or any other measure that would give the Arab majority control over the government of Palestine.

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

During the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Palestinian Arabs oppositionists fought for the end of the Mandate and the creation of an Arab state based on the whole of Palestine.

During the conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine before the war, the criterion of " Purity of arms " was used to distinguish between the respective attitudes of the Irgun and Haganah towards Arabs, with the latter priding itself on its adherence to principle.

During the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, Arafat left the University and, along with other Arabs, sought to enter Palestine to join Arab forces fighting against Israeli troops.

During Lehi's underground struggle against the British in Mandatory Palestine, the organization's commander Yitzchak Shamir ( later Prime Minister of Israel ) adopted the nom de guerre " Michael ", in honor of Ireland's Michael Collins.

During the rule of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine ( 1517-1918 ), Jenin, Lajjun and the Carmel area, were for part of the 17th century ruled by Bedouin sheikhs, in this case the Turabay family.

During the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt which extended into Syria and Palestine in 1799, a local official from Jenin wrote a poem enumerating and calling upon local Arab leaders to resist Bonaparte, without mentioning the Sultan or the need to protect the Ottoman empire.

* During this period of uncertainty in Syria, the Egyptian ruler, Ptolemy VI, lays claim to Coele Syria, Palestine, and Phoenicia, which the Seleucid king Antiochus III has previously conquered.

During the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Ben-Gurion instigated a policy of restraint (" Havlagah ") in which the Haganah and other Jewish groups did not retaliate for Arab attacks against Jewish civilians, concentrating only on self-defense.

During the period in which the British withdrawal was completed, Britain refused to share the administration of Palestine with a proposed UN transition regime, to allow the UN Palestine Commission to establish a presence in Palestine earlier than a fortnight before the end of the Mandate, to allow the creation of official Jewish and Arab militias or to assist in smoothly handing over territory or authority to any successor.

During World War I, the 25 battalions of the Black Watch fought mainly in France and Flanders, except for the 2nd Battalion which fought in Mesopotamia and Palestine, and the 10th Battalion, which was in the Balkans.

During the Fifth Crusade, Otto visited Palestine.