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Designed by architect Richard Kaufman, Moshav Nahalal is laid out in concentric circles, with public buildings in the center, homes in the next ring, and gardens and fields in the outer circle
Sept. 11, 1921 — Moshav Nahalal Is Founded
Moshav Nahalal, an agricultural settlement combining a kibbutz’s communal principles with private land ownership, is founded in the northwestern Jezreel Valley between Haifa and Afula by 80 families who came to the Land of Israel during the Second Aliyah (1904 to 1914). Both the principles of Nahalal and its layout, designed by Richard Kaufman in concentric circles, serve as models for other moshavim.
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“Lebanon” star Yoav Donat (left) and writer-director Samuel Moaz (right) walk the red carpet at the Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 12, 2009
Sept. 12, 2009 — Israeli Film Wins Golden Lion
An Israeli film for the first time wins the Golden Lion (introduced in 1949) at the Venice International Film Festival. “Lebanon,” written and directed by Samuel Maoz, follows a tank brigade operating during the First Lebanon War. It does not win Israel’s equivalent of the Oscar for best picture and thus is not the nation’s Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film. That honor goes to “Ajami.”
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Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs the Oslo Accords
Sept. 13, 1993 — PLO, Israel Sign Oslo Accords
President Bill Clinton holds a White House signing ceremony for the Oslo Accords, a set of agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, at the conclusion of which Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat famously shake hands. The agreement envisions a five-year process toward Palestinian self-rule and builds on the framework of the 1978 Camp David Accords.
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After the first government discussions about an Arab justice on the Israeli Supreme Court, Abdel Rahman Zuabi had to wait 17 years to be appointed to fill a vacancy on the court in 1999
Sept. 14, 2014 — Ex-Justice Abdel Rahman Zuabi Dies
Abdel Rahman Zuabi, a secular Muslim and proud Israeli who was the first Arab to serve on Israel’s Supreme Court, dies at 82. Born in Sulam in 1932, Zuabi was the first Arab to graduate from the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, where Moshe Dayan was a classmate. He served as a Nazareth District Court judge for 20 years. In 1999 he was chosen to fill a nine-month vacancy on the Supreme Court.
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Richard Goldstone, shown at Beloit College in 2007, acknowledged in 2011 that his 2009 report on the Gaza conflict was flawed
Sept. 15, 2009 — Goldstone Presents Gaza War Report
Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African Jew who prosecuted 1990s war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, presents his U.N.-sponsored report on the 2008-09 Gaza conflict. The report criticizes Israel and Hamas for their actions in the fighting. In April 2011 he recants parts of the report that suggest Israel intentionally killed civilians, and Goldstone acknowledges using flawed investigative methods.
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Israel’s UNESCO heritage sites include the Bahai Gardens in Haifa
Sept. 16, 1949 — Israel Joins UNESCO
Israel becomes a member of the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known for recognizing cultural and historical sites. But Israel withdraws from the agency in 2018 after UNESCO repeatedly accuses Israel of ignoring Muslim and Christian connections to important sites and Israel repeatedly accuses UNESCO of trying to erase the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel.
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine fighters show off Soviet, Czechoslovak and Egyptian weapons in the Jordanian mountains in 1969
Sept. 17, 1970 — Jordan Tries to Drive Out Palestinian Militants
King Hussein orders the Jordanian army to attack such terrorist groups as the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in and around Amman and Irbid. As many as 20,000 Palestinian militants use Jordan as a base for raids on Israel. The successful Jordanian operation, which ends with a ceasefire 10 days later, is remembered by Palestinians as Black September.
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