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Israel Fights Arab Nations in Yom Kippur War (1:44)

Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban speaks to the media about the origins of the Yom Kippur War.

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  • Israel Fights Arab Nations in Yom Kippur War
    Israel Fights Arab Nations in Yom Kippur War

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    Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban speaks to the media about the origins of the Yom Kippur War.

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  • Egypt's Anwar El-Sadat Speaks to Israeli Parliament
    Egypt's Anwar El-Sadat Speaks to Israeli Parliament

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    After Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat said he was willing to go to "the ends of the earth"--and even to the Israeli Parliament--to create peace between the two nations, the Israeli government responded with an invitation. On November 20, 1977, Sadat delivers a speech to the Israeli Knesset proposing a peace settlement with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

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  • Israel Admitted to the United Nations
    Israel Admitted to the United Nations

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    In a broadcast of the United Nations General Assembly proceedings on May 11, 1949, Israel is formally declared a member of the U.N. The State of Israel had been established one year earlier.

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  • Yasir Arafat on First Israel-Palestinian Peace
    Yasir Arafat on First Israel-Palestinian Peace

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    On September 13, 1993, the first peace accord between Israel and Palestine was signed in a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. Palestinian Chairman Arafat delivers a speech at the occasion.

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On October 6, 1973, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

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