The DOP provided mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO, as well as a plan for the implementation of Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area, with the autonomous areas to be expanded in stages over a five-year transitional period. The DOP was followed by the negotiation of several other Israeli-Palestinian agreements. The first was the Gaza/Jericho Agreement which provided the details for Israeli withdrawal from these areas and the creation of a Palestinian Authority , headed by Yassir Arafat and a 24-member council. ASSASSINATION OF RABIN. In June 1992, Egypt's President Mubarak met with Rabin, the first meeting of leaders of the two countries in six years. In Septem- ber, Morocco and Israel established diplomatic relations. In October, Jordan and Israel ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948. The bor- der between Eilat and Aqaba was opened, and Israelis were allowed into Jordan for the first time. Finally, negotiations with Syria were begun, concentrating on peace between the two countries in exchange for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the strategic Golan Heights. Such a withdrawal is highly controver- sial within Israel, and the Israeli government stated that it would place any agree- ment negotiated with Syria on a national referendum to be decided upon by the Israeli public. On November 4, 1995, 25-year-old Yigal Amir, a Jewish right-wing university student, shot and killed Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Over one million Israelis, Arabs and Jews alike, filed by the slain leader's coffin in the days following the murder. Rabin's funeral drew over 50 world leaders to Jerusa- lem, including Jordan's King Hussein, Mubarak, and representatives from four other Arab states. THE 90S. The May 1996 election of Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the conservative Likud party, marked a turn away from Rabin's peace-oriented politics. The change in government resulted from a bombing campaign in major population centers throughout Israel carried out by Hamas. Netanyahu's continued support of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem prompted violent clashes. Tension was further heightened by the Palestinian Authority's enforcement of its decree which imposed a death sentence for the sale of land to Israelis. In September 1996, the Israeli government's decision to open a tunnel entrance adjacent to the Temple Mount and to Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem sparked pro- tests that degenerated into deadly fighting. Thirty-seven Palestinians and eleven Israelis died in the conflict as the spectacle of gunfights between Israeli soldiers and the PA's police force seemed to announce the near-collapse of the peace pro- cess. Throughout fall 1996, US President Bill Clinton met with Arafat and Netan- yahu to try to salvage relations between the two groups. Hamas dealt another blow to the peace process with the suicide bombing of a crowded Jerusalem market on July 30,1997.