Israel@70Political History
Visual Timeline of U.S.-Israel Ties
As part of our Israel@70 coverage, the Center for Israel Education guides us down memory lane.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Ambassador Abba Eban present a menorah to President Harry Truman in 1951. (Photo by Fritz Cohen, Israeli Government Press Office)
While this photographic timeline isn’t as personal as our collection of “What Israel Means to Me” responses, it’s still an important reminder of what Israel has gone through in its diplomatic history in the 70 years since its founding in 1948.
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion talks with President Dwight Eisenhower in the White House in 1960. (Israeli Government Press Office)
President Lyndon Johnson and Prime Minister Levi Eshkol meet in Texas in January 1968. (Photo by David Eldan, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Golda Meir visits President Richard Nixon at the White House in March 1973, about seven months before the Yom Kippur War would test the U.S.-Israel friendship. (Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and President Gerald Ford, both of whom left office in 1977, meet at the White House in January 1976. (Photo by Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office)
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin share a joke during Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem in November 1977. (Photo by Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office)
It wasn’t all tough talk and frayed relations between President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as seen in this photo from the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem in March 1979. (Photo by Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office)
President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Shimon Peres talk in the White House in September 1986. (Photo by Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and President George H.W. Bush meet at the White House in December 1990. (Photo by Tsvika Israeli, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin calls on Jordan’s King Hussein at the Royal Palace in Amman in 1995. (Photo by Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office)
(From left) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan pose in the White House after the signing ceremony for the Oslo II Accord in September 1995. (Photo by Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Shimon Peres greets Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Saud el Faisal, during a peace conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in March 1996. (Photo by Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Ehud Barak (left) and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Sharaa flank President Bill Clinton in January 2000 during peace talks in Shepherdstown, W.Va. (Photo by Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Bill Clinton seem relaxed together at the White House in November 2000. (Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office)
Peace talks in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, bring together (from left) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah in 2005. (Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shakes hands with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September 2005. (Photo by Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government Press Office)
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni meets with Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, in Doha in April 2008. (Photo by Moshe Milner, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gets a warm welcome to the White House from President George W. Bush in June 2008. (Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom, Israeli Government Press Office)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk in Washington in September 2010. (Photo by the Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama share a light moment at the White House in March 2012. (Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meet in New York in September 2017. (Photo by Avi Ohayon, Israeli Government Press Office)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump spend time together at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 25, 2018. (Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom, Israeli Government Press Office)
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