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1956

The Sinai Campaign

In the Sinai Campaign (Operation Kadesh) the IDF captured the Sinai Peninsula within a few days.

  1. The founding of Tel Aviv University is announced.
  2. The Sinai Campaign (Operation Kadesh) opens with a paratroop drop near the Mitla Pass in Sinai.
  3. In Kafr Qasim, Border Police officers shoot dead dozens of the village's residents, among them women and children, who were returning from work unaware of a curfew that had been brought forward; eight members of the unit were later convicted of murder.
  4. The IDF captures Sharm el-Sheikh at the southern tip of Sinai, and the fighting ends.
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