1993 - Oslo Peace Accords Secret negotiations between the PLO and the Israeli government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin lead to Israeli recognition of the PLO and the signing of an interim peace accord. Yasser Arafat arrives in Gaza to set up an autonomous Palestinian Authority administration in sections of the West Bank and Gaza, from which Israel withdraws militarily. In 1995, Rabin signs a peace treaty with Jordan, but only a few months later in November, Rabin is assassinated by a right-wing Jewish fanatic; Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu is subsequently elected as prime minister in 1996. Netanyahu is defeated in May, 1999 in another round of elections by Labor's Ehud Barak. Barak pledges to reinvigorate the peace process after several years of stalemate. 8000-4000 BCE 3000-1200 BCE 1700 1200-600 BCE 587-332 BCE 520 BCE 332-63 BCE 166 BCE 63-324 CE 6-3 BCE 66 CE 68 CE 132-135 CE 135-324 CE 324-638 CE 614 CE 638-1099 CE 1099-1291 CE 1291-1917 CE 1492 1517 1886 1918-1948 1948 1950-67 1968-1988 1974 1977 1982 1993 2000