| BIBLICAL PERIOD | | | | of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aksa mosques; |
| 2000 BCE Patriarchs and Matriarchs: settlement of | | | | renewal of Jewish settling |
| the Land of Israel | | | | 1100 CE Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099); in |
| 1250 BCE Moses, desert wanderings; receiving the | | | | France, Rashi writes commentary on the Bible; |
| Torah at Mount Sinai; conquest of Land of Israel | | | | Ramban’s settlement marks return of Jews |
| by Joshua; rule by Judges | | | | to Jerusalem and worship at the |
| 1st TEMPLE PERIOD | | | | Western Wall (1267) |
| 1000 BCE Jerusalem becomes King David’s | | | | 1492 CE Jews expelled from Spain |
| capital; Solomon builds First Temple; division of | | | | 1517 CE Ottoman Empire rules Jerusalem; |
| kingdom into Israel and Judah | | | | Sephardic synagogues established; Shulchan Aruch |
| 586 BCE Destruction of First Temple; Babylonian | | | | published in Zfat |
| Exile | | | | 1789 CE Napoleon In Eretz Yisrael |
| 2ND TEMPLE PERIOD | | | | 1860 CE Yemin Moshe was founded as first |
| Return to Zion; Ezra and Nechemia; construction | | | | settlement outside Old City walls |
| of Second Temple | | | | 1880 CE Pogroms in Russia; Dreyfus trial; |
| 332 BCE Jerusalem comes under Greek | | | | Theodore Herzl; First Aliyah; First Zionist |
| domination | | | | Congress; Tel Aviv founded |
| 166 BCE Maccabean Revolt; restoration of Jewish | | | | 1917 CE British Mandate in Palestine; Jewish |
| autonomy; | | | | population increases; rise of Arab nationalism |
| Hasmonean Empire | | | | 1938 CE Kristallnacht; British White paper restricts |
| 63 BCE Roman invasion of Israel [Kingdom of | | | | Jewish immigration to Palestine; beginning of |
| Herod; Hillel and Shammai leaders of rabbinic | | | | Holocaust |
| thought] | | | | MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL |
| 70 CE Destruction of Jerusalem and Second | | | | 1947 CE Partition Plan |
| Temple | | | | 1948 CE State of Israel proclaimed; War of |
| EXILE AND DIASPORA (Beginning of rabbinic | | | | Independence; beginning of waves of immigration |
| period) | | | | from Europe, Yemen and Iraq |
| 73 CE Destruction of Masada | | | | 1967 CE Six Day War; reunification of Jerusalem |
| 132 CE Bar Kochba Revolt; compilation of Mishna | | | | In the last 30 years, we have seen the Yom |
| by Rabbi Yehuda | | | | Kippur war and the War in Lebanon, peace |
| Hanassi | | | | agreements with Egypt, Jordan and the |
| 324 CE Talmudic period; decline of Israel as | | | | Palestinians, terrorist attacks, the assassination of |
| Jewish center; rise of Jewish academies in | | | | Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. You will learn about |
| Babylonia | | | | these events on your trip. Which of these might |
| 638 CE Arab conquest of Jerusalem; construction | | | | appear on the timeline 500 years from now? |