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1974

A Year of Reckoning

In the shadow of the Agranat Commission and terror attacks, Golda Meir resigned, and Yitzhak Rabin became the first native-born prime minister.

  1. The Agranat Commission submits its interim report on the failures of the Yom Kippur War.
  2. Terrorists infiltrate Kiryat Shmona and murder eighteen people; in those same days, Golda Meir announces her resignation.
  3. Terrorists seize a school in Ma'alot holding pupils from Safed; twenty-two pupils are murdered.
  4. Yitzhak Rabin is sworn in as prime minister, the first to be born in the Land of Israel.
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