Reading the 110-Event Chronology
The book's master chronology runs from 1945 to the 2026 research cutoff. This note explains how to read a national intelligence timeline without mistaking sequence for causation.
PUBLIC-RECORD OVERVIEW
A concise orientation
The complete edition's master chronology records 110 dated events. It begins before the agency exists — in 1945 and 1946 — so that the institution can be placed inside the wider history of the State of Israel rather than treated as its starting point.
The public timeline on this site previews twelve of those dates. The full version adds the intermediate steps: leadership transitions, warning debates, diplomatic ruptures, operations and the archival releases that later changed the record.
KEY POINTS
What the public record supports
The chronology begins before 1949 to set institutional context.
Sequence is not causation: a later event is not necessarily a response to an earlier one.
Evidence labels matter — some dates are documented, others only reported or disputed.
EVIDENCE NOTE
Documented overview
This field note uses a high-level summary only. Where attribution or important details remain uncertain, the complete encyclopedia distinguishes documented facts from reported, attributed, disputed or unknown claims.
RESERVED FOR THE COMPLETE EDITION
What the book adds
- The complete master chronology with all 110 dated events
- Evidence classifications attached to each dated event
- Cross-references between chronology entries and A–Z dossiers
The full material is not reproduced in this article.