Israeli History: The State Period, 1948 to 1995
Between 1948 and 1995 Israel went from absorbing mass immigration under austerity to peace with two Arab neighbours. About 687,000 immigrants arrived between 1948 and 1951. A 1952 agreement committed West Germany to pay Israel 3,000 million Deutsche Mark. Israel invaded Egyptian Sinai in 1956 and withdrew under United Nations pressure. It tried Adolf Eichmann in 1961 and hanged him in 1962. A ceasefire ended the War of Attrition on 7 August 1970. Eleven Israeli athletes were killed at Munich in 1972, and commandos freed hostages at Entebbe on 4 July 1976. The Likud won the most seats for the first time on 17 May 1977. Israel signed peace with Egypt on 26 March 1979. It invaded Lebanon on 6 June 1982, and Phalangist militiamen killed civilians in the Sabra and Shatila camps that September. The Madrid Conference opened on 30 October 1991, the Jordan treaty followed on 26 October 1994, and Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on 4 November 1995.
