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| 1990, March 21 |
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| Shimon Peres became prime minister of the government of national unity but soon relinquished the post to his Likud rival Yitzhak Shamir (April 26). | 1 |
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| 1991, Oct. 27 |
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| Israeli authorities granted free access to scholars who wished to study the Dead Sea Scrolls, but retained some restrictions on the use of the documents. | 2 |
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| 1992, June 23 |
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| The Labor coalition won national elections that were widely viewed as an endorsement of peace talks with the PLO. The new leader of the Labor Party, Yitzhak Rabin, took office as prime minister on July 2. | 3 |
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| 1993, Sept. 13 |
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| Formal signing by Israeli and PLO officials of THE DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES AND MUTUAL RECOGNITION. The accord was worked out in secret negotiations in Norway during the spring and summer of 1993. It called for interim self-rule (originally scheduled for Dec. 13, but later delayed) for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. Both sides agreed to determine the final status of the occupied territories in negotiations over the next five years. | 4 |
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| Oct. 2 |
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| Meeting in Washington, D.C., in which Foreign Minister Peres and Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan announced the establishment of a joint economic committee. | 5 |
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