Jewish History 1948 - 1980

Yom Kippur War Implications

The Yom Kippur War led to a fragile but lasting peace between Israel and Egypt.

A surprise attack on a holy day in 1973.

The process by which Mandatory Palestine became Israel.

The creation of an infrastructure for the state of Israel.

Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there.

The post-war politics of American Jews were shaped more by Jewish experience than Jewish tradition.

Israel worked to absorb massive numbers of Jewish immigrants during the 1950s.

Hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe and the Arab lands seek a new home in the Jewish state.

Yasser Arafat and the PLO from 1964 until the 1993 Oslo Accords.

An examination of the development of the Israeli military.