Arab–Israeli conflict Arabs emerged in the early 20th century, peaking into a full-scale civil war in 1947 and transforming into the First Arab–Israeli War in May 1948, following the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Large-scale hostilities mostly ended with the cease-fire agreements after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Peace agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979, resulting in Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula and abolishment of the military governance system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in favor of Israeli Civil Administration and consequent unilateral annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. The nature of the conflict has
Ingrid (given name) Ingrid (given name) Ingrid is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name "Ingiríðr", which was a short form of "Ingfríðr", composed of the theonym "Ing" and the element "fríðr" "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant "Ingerid" or "Ingfrid"; short forms "Inga, Inger, Ingri") remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the highest frequency in Norway. Norwegian usage peaked in the interbellum period, with more than 2% of newly born girls so named in 1920; popularity declined gradually over the 1930s to 1960s,