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Modified link of Web site: Gov.il - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - The Arab-Israeli Wars. Sep 26, 2026
Add new Web site: Gov.il - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - The Arab-Israeli Wars. Jan 16, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained. Nov 30, 2025
Article revised and updated. Jul 16, 2025
Added list of Arab-Israeli wars. Jul 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Arab–Israeli Conflict (PDF). Jun 20, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Arab-Israeli Conflict (PDF). Feb 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Brookings - Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Exhaustion Factor. Dec 19, 2024
Add new Web site: UCL Discovery - Arab−Israeli Wars and US Foreign Policy. Oct 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Arab-Israeli Wars. Sep 09, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - The Arab-Israeli Wars (PDF). Jul 29, 2024
Added cross-references. May 10, 2024
Revised the discussion of the Second Lebanon War and added discussion of the Israel-Hamas War. Apr 22, 2024
Media added. Apr 22, 2024
Revised the discussion of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Mar 29, 2024
Added cross-references. Mar 13, 2024
Revised the discussion of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948–49. Oct 12, 2023
Revised the discussion of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - The Arab-Israeli wars. Jul 07, 2023
Added cross-reference. May 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Apr 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - The Arab-Israeli Wars. Apr 05, 2022
Clarified the scope of the article and added cross-references to articles that discuss conflicts specific to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. May 18, 2021
Revised the discussion of the Yom Kippur War. Oct 16, 2020
Revised discussion of the 1948-49 war and added mention of the 2006 war with Lebanon. Sep 26, 2018
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian - The Arab-Israeli War of 1948. May 03, 2017
Add new Web site: Animal Planet - Apatosaurus. Jul 07, 2011
Media added. Oct 23, 2009
Article revised and updated. Jan 23, 2008
Media added. Jun 01, 2007
Media added. May 30, 2007
Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Israel’s Wars and Operations: War of Independence (1947 - 1949). Dec 21, 2006
Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Israel’s Wars and Operations: War of Independence (1947 - 1949). Dec 21, 2006
Article revised. Nov 10, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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