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1996
Jerusalem is 3'000 years old.
Yasser Arafat wins the Palestinian elections.
First visit King Husseins in Tel Aviv.
.03 March: The beginning of the action «Fruits of the Anger» against the Hezbollah in the South Lebanon.
A series of suicide assassinations kills 60 Israelis.
The Israeli military presence in Judea and Samaria is continued.
.05 May 29th: Elections to the fourteenth Knesset. The Prime Minister for the first time is elected directly. Benjamin Netanjahu, chairman of the Likud, becomes a Prime Minister.
The tunnel at the west wall is made accessible for the public. Considerable Palestinian protests are the consequence in which 80 people die.
Israel wins a bronze medal in the windsurfing at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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