1. Vocabulary week 17

2. Bell Ringer 1/9/17
How was your break? Write for 3 minutes without stopping. Be prepared to share out. (You can do this on the back of your BR sheet!)

3. Define vocabulary words for week 17
Objective/Agenda
Define vocabulary words for week 17
Agenda: You must know these words for Friday!
VOCAB
Final: 1/26 (thursday)

4. Grades are all crazy in gradebook.
Reminders
Grades are all crazy in gradebook.
I will be gone next week

5. Intifada- arabic for “tremor” “shudder”
1st: the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987.
2nd: was the second Palestinian uprising against Israel – a period of intensified Israeli-Palestinian violence. It started in September 2000

6. Camp David Accords
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and US President Jimmy Carter signed the Camp David Accords on September 17, 1978 in Washington, DC. The Details of the Camp David Accords: Called for a formal peace treaty to be signed between Israel and Egypt, within three months.

7. Yasser Arafat
Born in Cairo in 1929, Yasser Arafat was named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 40 years later. He, along with Israeli leaders, tried to broker a peace deal between Palestine and Israel. Arafat ceded his PLO chairman post in 2003, and died in Paris in 2004.

9. Yitzhak Rabin
Born on March 1, 1922, in Jerusalem, Yitzhak Rabin served as Israel's military chief of staff before becoming the country's first native-born prime minister in He reclaimed the post in the elections, and then became known for his historical peace negotiations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in Rabin was killed by an extremist on November 4, 1995, in Tel Aviv.

11. Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords are a set of agreements between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba in 1995

12. Ariel Sharon
Born on February 27, 1928, in Kfar Malal, Palestine (now Israel), Sharon served in Parliament and became minister of defense in 1981, later taking on other posts. He was elected prime minister in and served until 2006, upon suffering a stroke. After eight years in a coma, Sharon died on January 11, at the age of 85.

14. Mencachem Begin:
Menachem Begin was born on August 16, 1913, in Brest- Litovsk, Poland (now Russia). He was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983 and the co-recipient, with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace. Begin mounted an invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to oust the Palestine Liberation Organization. Civilian deaths during this conflict turned world opinion against Israel. Begin resigned office in He died in

16. Gaza Strip
A territory occupying 140 square miles along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza Strip is unusual in being a densely settled area but not recognized as part of any country. The first accurate census, conducted in September 1967, showed a population smaller than had previously been estimated as with nearly half of the people living in refugee camps. Pop. (2006 est.) 1,444,000.

18. 6-Day War
Also called June War or Third Arab-Israeli War, brief war that took place June 5–10, Israel’s decisive victory included the capture of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Old City of Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights; the status of these territories subsequently became a major point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

19. Anwar Sadat
Born on December 25, 1918, in Mit Ab al-Kawm, Egypt.. He served as vice president before becoming president in Though his country faced internal economic instability, Sadat would later earn the Nobel Peace Prize for entering into peace agreements with Israel. He was assassinated soon after, on October 6, 1981, in Cairo, Egypt, by Muslim extremists.