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Photo credit: Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office, CC BY-SA 3.0
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin attend a dinner at the official residence of Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz in Washington on June 12, 1975.
Sept. 4, 1975 — Israel, Egypt Disengage
Israel and Egypt in Geneva sign the Second Disengagement Agreement (Sinai II), brokered by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The deal includes Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai’s Abu Rudeis oil fields and Mitla and Gidi passes and the creation of a U.N.-monitored buffer zone. The First Disengagement Agreement, signed in January 1974, led both sides to pull troops back from the Suez Canal.
Photo credit: U.S. National Archives
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin greet each other at Camp David as President Jimmy Carter watches.
Sept. 5, 1978 — Camp David Summit Begins
President Jimmy Carter convenes negotiating teams led by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the Camp David retreat in Maryland. The negotiations over 13 days produce the accords that serve as the basis for the peace treaty signed in March 1979. The Camp David document combines a framework for negotiating the peace treaty with one for developing Palestinian self-governance.
U.S. surveillance photos show the Al Kibar reactor before and after the Israeli airstrike Sept. 6, 2007.
Sept. 6, 2007 — Israel Destroys Syrian Reactor
In Operation Orchard, conducted in secret but with the knowledge of President George W. Bush’s administration, eight Israeli aircraft destroy a suspected nuclear reactor at the military site of Al Kibar in northeastern Syria. Information about the reactor, believed to have been built with North Korean help, came from a secret Mossad raid on a Syrian official’s home in Vienna, Austria, in March 2007.
Photo credit: Central Zionist Archives
While trapped in Europe during World War I, Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook wrote persuasively for British Jews to support Zionism.
Sept. 7, 1865 — Rav Kook Is Born
The first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine, Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook, known for promoting religious Zionism and for writing religious books, is born in Griva, Latvia. He becomes the head rabbi of Jaffa at age 38. Stuck in Europe during World War I, he rallies British Jews in support of Zionism. He becomes chief rabbi of Jerusalem in 1919 and serves as chief rabbi of Palestine from 1921 to 1935.
Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits argued that Jewish law could be reformed over time and criticized the lack of rights for women in Jewish tradition.
Sept. 8, 1908 — Theologian Eliezer Berkovits Is Born
Orthodox theologian and ardent Zionist Eliezer Berkovits is born in Nagyvarad, Transylvania. He serves as a rabbi in Berlin until 1939, when he is forced by the Nazis to leave after countering their propaganda with his first book, “What Is the Talmud?” He holds pulpits and teaches in England, Australia and the United States until he retires to Israel in 1975. He champions liberal Orthodoxy, including rights for women.
Photo credit: By Gidi Orsher
Alon Garbuz organized retrospectives of leading filmmakers and launched specialty film festivals during his four decades leading the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
Sept. 9, 1948 — Cinematheque Director Alon Garbuz Is Born
Alon Garbuz, the director of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque for four decades, is born in Givatayim. He becomes the deputy director when Tel Aviv launches a municipal art house cinema in 1973 and succeeds to the top job in 1975. Under his leadership, the cinematheque establishes a permanent home in 1989 and becomes Israel’s top film society, highlighting foreign movies, classics and the best of Israeli filmmaking.
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Uri Avnery served in the Irgun and fought in the War of Independence before embracing the coexistence of Israeli and Palestinian states.
Sept. 10, 1923 — Gush Shalom Founder Uri Avnery Is Born
Journalist and peace activist Uri Avnery is born in Beckum, Germany. His family escapes to Palestine in the 1930s, and he grows up in extreme poverty in Tel Aviv. After fighting in the War of Independence, he focuses on a potential partnership between the Israeli and Arab national movements. He serves in the Knesset three times. He founds the Gush Shalom peace movement in 1993 and develops a friendship with Yasser Arafat.
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