• Events in the year 1956 in Israel. Prime Minister of Israel – David Ben-Gurion (Mapai) President of Israel – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi President of the Supreme...
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    Arab–Israeli War, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel...
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  • Israel's Border Wars 1949–1956 is a 1993 book written by Benny Morris about the Arab infiltration from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria into Israel after...
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    Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, the...
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    An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It...
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    return February 4. January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February 2 – Austria and Israel establish diplomatic relations....
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    militarily occupied by Israel twice since the beginning of the Arab–Israeli conflict: the first occupation lasted from October 1956 to March 1957, and the...
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    Israel competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. As a partial support to the Dutch-led boycott, Israeli athletes under the Olympic...
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    soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula. It again closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, returning the region to the way it was in 1956 when Israel was blockaded...
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  • major military engagements involving Israel. Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring...
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  • The 1956–57 season was the ninth season of competitive football in Israel and the 31st season under the Israeli Football Association, established in 1928...
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  • by the Israeli film industry in 1956. 1956 in Israel B'Ein Moledet (1959) - IMDb Ma'aseh B'Monit (1956) - IMDb Dan Quihote V'Sa'adia Pansa (1956) - IMDb...
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    into Israel, while Israel carried out its own reprisal operations in the host countries. The 1956 Suez Crisis resulted in a short-term Israeli occupation...
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  • Arabs in Palestine/Israel, 1936–1956 (Hebrew: תיקון טעות: יהודים וערבים בארץ ישראל: 1936–1956, Tikun Ta'ut: yehudim v'araviim b'eretz yisrael 1936–1956) is...
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    Canal from November 1956 to April 1957 was caused by the Second Arab–Israeli war also known as the Suez Crisis in 1956. On 26 July 1956 Egyptian president...
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    after the Israeli Declaration of Independence and has participated in every armed conflict involving Israel. In the wake of the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty...
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    Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate, incumbent...
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    of the Muslim community. Israel recognized the Druze community as an independent religious community in 1956 and then again in 1963 formally as a Millet...
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    Ágnes Keleti (category Israel Prize in sport recipients)
    individual with Israeli citizenship, and more Olympic medals than any other Jew, except Mark Spitz. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics...
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    dissolved in 1959 by decree of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser.[citation needed] During the 1956 Suez Crisis (the Second Arab–Israeli war), Israel invaded...
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    establishment in 1948, Israel has witnessed significant changes in its demographics. Formed as a homeland for the Jewish people, Israel has attracted...
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  • is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1956 released films by...
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    occupation by Israel since 6 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then occupied by Egypt, during the Six-Day War. Although Israel unilaterally...
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  • competition and the fourth after the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Although the competition began on 11 February 1956, it was delayed severely by the...
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  • Halevi Government of Israel – Thirty-seventh government of Israel Israel–Hamas war 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank Israeli invasion of the...
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    responsible should be brought to account." During the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. On 3 November, the...
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    Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish...
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    1953 and 1956, there were intermittent clashes along all of Israel's borders as Arab terrorism and breaches of the ceasefire resulting in Israeli counter-raids...
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    Israel's austerity period. Tensions worsened as the Egyptians gradually strengthened their blockade of Israel, culminating in the Suez Crisis of 1956...
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    of Israel's income, comprising as high as 87.5% of Israel's income in 1956. Israel never had any formal diplomatic relations with East Germany. In 1950...
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