19 May 1998: PM Binyamin Netanyahu says threatened EU boycott of products
from Judea/Samaria, Gaza will hurt Arab workers.
19/5: PLO's Yasser Arafat and former PM Shimon Peres launch new venture
capital fund to aid projects in PA areas.
20/5: Netanyahu tells Cabinet that remain-ing major disagreement with PA is
over third and final redeployment.
20/5: New "anti-missionary" bill passes first reading in Knesset with
coalition support.
21/5: PM's Office says Netanyahu seeks summit with Arafat to renew talks.
21/5: PA negotiator Saeb Erekat blasts US House Speaker Newt Gingrich for
remarks supporting Israel's clams to Jerusalem.
22/5: Netanyahu tells diplomatic corps that "peace collapsed two years ago".
22/5: Gingrich, on eve of visit, calls off visit to new US Embassy site in
Jerusalem.
22/5: US Senate gives overwhelming support to tough sanctions bill aimed at
ending missile aid to Iran.
23/5: 31st Jerusalem Day celebrated.
23/5: Two South Lebanese Army soldiers killed by Hizb'Allah bomb in
security zone.
23/5: Irish voters give peace deal a wide margin of victory in historic
referendum.
24/5: Israeli security cabinet considers revised US proposal for 15%
withdrawal in staged pullbacks.
24/5: Coalition's Third Way Party divides over call for national unity
govern-ment.
24/5: Senior Israeli military source: PA smuggling weapons through Gaza
tunnels.
24/5: Christian opposition shows surprising strength as Lebanese go to
polls for first local elections in 35 years.
25/5: Security cabinet members Yitzhak Mordechai, Ariel Sharon, Natan
Sharansky air differing views on withdrawal issues.
25/5: Visiting US defence experts say Arrow missile needs an urgent upgrade.
25/5: Hamas says Jordan has refused Sheikh Ahmed Yassin entry while on
controversial tour of region.
25/5: Deputy mayor of Israeli Arab town in custody for aiding Hamas.
26/5: Yassin in Damascus predicts that Israel will be eliminated within 25
years.
26/5: Gingrich tells Knesset plenum only Israel should decide its security
needs.
26/5: Clashes at Jewish site in Jerusalem's Old City lead to confrontation
between Israeli police and 15 PA council members.
27/5: With Netanyahu on state visit to China, security cabinet members
grumble about being kept in the dark on talks with PA.
27/5: Hizb'Allah continues mortar attacks into northern Israel as tensions
mount.
27/5: Gingrich pays cordial visit to Arafat in Ram'Allah following barbs
from White House, State Department spokesmen.
28/5: After weeks of tension, Pakistan sets off five nuclear bombs in
answer to India's.
28/5: Massive search on in Lebanon security zone for collaborators in
roadside bombings that killed two IDF soldiers.
29/5: Palestinian legislative council consi-ders vote of "no confidence" in
Arafat in wrangle over budget process.
30/5: More Pakistani nuclear tests held.
31/5: Jewish Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost) marked.
31/5: In Beirut, France's Jacques Chirac rejects Israel's UN Resolution 425
initiative.
June 1: Israeli military strongly denies Pakistani charges of planning
pre-emptive strike at nuclear facilities.
2/6: Mordechai holds friendly meeting with Mubarak in Cairo, then publicly
urges no more delay on redeployment decision.
2/6: Arab ministers gather in Beirut to plan anti-Israel stance at upcoming
Euro-Med meeting in Palermo.
3/6: Arafat arrives in Oman to continue push for pan-Arab summit to condemn
Israel.
3/6: Report quotes PA security chief Jibril Rajoub as saying PA approves of
Hamas attacks as long as they do not implicate PA.
4/6: Israeli Arab leaders call for boycott of products from Jewish
"settlements".
5/6: In Israeli TV interview, Pakistani minister denies Islamabad is
co-operating with Iran on nuclear technology.
7/6: Netanyahu dismisses press reports saying Israel and PA are close to
agreement over troop with-drawal.
8/6: Senior IDF officer: calls for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from south
Lebanon endangers lives of soldiers serving there.
8/6: Clashes erupt between Arabs and Israelis moving into Jewish-owned
property in Silwan, eastern Jerusalem.
8/6: Israeli officials debate whether or not to allow Yassin to return to
Gaza after tour.
9/6: Netanyahu said to be considering possibility of national referendum on
troop withdrawal issue.
9/6: Reports: Iranian Jew, 60, hanged in Iran, apparently for helping Jews
leave country.
11/6: Amir Peretz trounces Maxim Levy in elections for Histadrut trade
union chairman.
11/6: Netanyahu meets Labour leader Ehud Barak amid calls for early elections.
11/6: Israel-Lebanon deal imminent on exchanging 60 Lebanese prisoners and
bodies of 40 Hizb'Allah militiamen for body of Israeli naval commando
Itamar Ilya.
11/6: Report: Jerusalem's Arab population is growing four times faster than
its Jewish population.
12/6: Netanyahu denies reports he plans to form national unity government
with Barak.