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The Arabs had attacked the kibbutz, Mishmar Haemek, with the intent of taking it for the strategic location in between Jenin and Haifa. Outnumbered ten to three and with artillery shells raining down on them, a few hundred Jewish residents and soldiers managed to hold off about one thousand troops of the Arab Liberation Army. On April 4, 1948, the odds were not in Israel’s favor.

Gamal Abdel Nasser died of a heart attack in 1970 his successor, Anwar Sadat, eventually sought peace with Israel, signing an historic treaty in 1979 he was assassinated by an Egyptian officer in 1981.Israeli Defense Forces: Table of Contents| New Programs 2014| Wars & Operations The Battle of Mishmar HaEmek.Relations with Israel remained hostile - there was an unsuccessful attempt to take back the Golan Heights in the 1973 Middle East war, and Assad continued to refuse any peace deal which did not include the return of Syrian territory Hafez al-Assad took power in a 1970 coup and was elected Syrian president in a referendum a year later he ruled the country until he died in 2000.After years of secret talks, Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994.

King Hussein of Jordan ordered the expulsion of PLO forces from Jordan in 1970 and rejected calls by Egypt and Syria to join their war against Israel in 1973.

Yitzhak Rabin served two terms as Israeli prime minister, firstly in the mid-1970s, and later between 1992-1995 in his second term of office he negotiated and signed historic Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians, for which he shared a Nobel Peace prize he was assassinated by an ultra-nationalist Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv in 1995.