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1987

A Spark in Gaza

In December the First Intifada erupts in the Gaza Strip, changing the face of the conflict.

  1. By a narrow majority, the government decided to cancel the Israeli Lavi fighter jet project.
  2. Prisoner of Zion Ida Nudel arrived in Israel after years of struggle for her right to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
  3. A terrorist who infiltrated from Lebanon by hang glider attacked an IDF camp near Kiryat Shmona and killed six soldiers – "the Night of the Gliders".
  4. A day after a traffic accident in which four Palestinians from Jabalia were killed, demonstrations and riots broke out in the Gaza Strip and became the First Intifada.
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