 The Peacekeeping Operations Center, as the legal successor of the National Center for Peacekeeping Missions, was established on January 1, 2005.Thereafter, it was subordinated to the Joint Operations Command of the General Staff.The Peacekeeping Operations Center celebrates its Day on November 17 in memory of the day when, in 1956, the precursor of the YPA Detachment was sent to the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) in Sinai.