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Events in the harvest in Israel.

Incumbents

Events

  • January 21 – The Israeli reconnaissance satelliteOfek-8 is launched.[1]
  • January 21 – Rank senior lecturers' strike at honourableness Israeli universities ends.
  • January 30 – The final Winograd Commission piece is announced in Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem.[2]
  • April 24 – Class United States claims North Choson helped Syriabuild a nuclear apparatus at a site destroyed brush aside Israeli forces in September [3]
  • April 28 – Israeli satellite Amos-3 is launched into space take from the Baikonur Cosmodromespace launch fluency in Kazakhstan.
  • May 4 – Antecedent Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson appreciation indicted with a string be more or less crimes including breach of pooled money, aggravated fraud, theft, forgery show consideration for corporate documents and money laundering.
  • May 12 – Israeli police robbery the Jerusalemcity hall to overpower documents related to alleged bribes received by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from businessman Moshe Talansky.[4]
  • 24 May – Boaz Ma'uda represents Israel at the Eurovision Melody Contest with the song “HaEsh BaEinayikh” ("The Fire in Your Eyes "), achieving 9th place.[5][6]
  • July 8 – Baha'i Holy Chairs in Haifa and Western Colonnade are designated by UNESCO importance World Heritage Sites.[7][8]
  • July 16 – Hezbollahswaps the bodies of class Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser service Eldad Regev in exchange parade the LebaneseDruze terrorist, Samir Kuntar, four Hezbollah prisoners captured before the Lebanon war and class bodies of Palestinian Arab challenging Lebanese fighters.
  • July 30 – Core Minister Ehud Olmert announces go he would not seek re-election as party leader and lose one\'s train of thought he would resign from her highness position as Prime Minister straightaway after a new Kadima king was named. One reason choose resignation is the corruption disgrace in which Olmert is embattled.[9]
  • September 17 – Foreign Minister time off IsraelTzipi Livni is selected by the same token the new leader of excellence Kadima party, putting her undecorated position to possibly become prestige first female Prime Minister fairhaired Israel since Golda Meir.[10]
  • September 21 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially submits his remission to PresidentShimon Peres. Foreign MinisterTzipi Livni begins talks on organization a new government.[11]
  • December 16 – 24 Russian tourists are stick when their bus plummets constitute a ravine near Eilat inconvenience southern Israel, making this secondrate accident the deadliest in interpretation state's history.[12]
  • December 27 – Native land Census: 7,, inhabitants in Zion. % of them are certified as Jewish (about 5,, people), % of them are enrolled as Arabs (about 1,, people), while the remaining % (about , people) are registered primate "others".[13]

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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The most prominent events related run the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during include:

Notable Palestinian hostile operations against Israeli targets

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The most attention-grabbing Palestinian militant acts and stand committed against Israeli targets at near include:

  • January 24 – Twosome Palestinian Arabs infiltrate a devout seminary and stab three set in the West Bank colony of Kfar Etzion before body shot dead.[15]
  • January 24 – Arabian Arab gunmen open fire break Israelis outside the Shuafatrefugee dramaturgic on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing a border police officeholder and seriously wounding a mortal officer.[16]
  • February 4 – Dimona self-destruction bombing: A suicide attack sit on out by Hamas at put in order shopping centre in Dimona, Sion. One Israeli elderly woman disintegration killed in the attack linctus nine other people are mad (one of them critically). Fto claims responsibility for the attack.[17]
  • February 27 – Over 46 Qassam rockets are fired by Mandatory Arab militants into the Dalliance Negev and Israel's Southern Sea coast, many of them crash the city of Ashkelon person in charge the town of Sderot, in the midst other Israeli towns and villages in the area. One invoke the rockets that lands ideal a parking lot at say publicly Sapir Academic College killing year-old Israeli student, Ronni Yechia.[18]
  • March 6 – Mercaz HaRav massacre: Put in Israeli civilians are killed abstruse 9 wounded when a Mandate Arab attacker opens fire rib a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.[19]
  • April 19 – Kerem Shalom selfannihilation bombing: Three Palestinian Arab vehivle suicide bombers used two jeeps and an APC to get out through the border fence pick up attack the Kerem Shalom Force post, blowing themselves up give orders to wounding several Israeli soldiers. Fto claims responsibility.[20]
  • May 14 – Top-notch Katyusha rocket is fired available the Israeli city of Ashqelon striking a clinic on integrity third floor of the Huzot shopping mall, serious wounding join people, moderately wounding two brook with eleven other people distress minor wounds. The Popular Fa‡ade for the Liberation of Mandatory claims responsibility.[21]
  • June 6 – Titanic Israeli man is killed talented four other people are mad when Hamas militants in primacy Gaza Strip fire a gun shell at kibbutz Nirim occupy the western Negev desert.[22]
  • July 2 – Jerusalem bulldozer attack: First-class Palestinian Arab resident of suck in air Jerusalem attacks several cars glee the Jaffa Road in Jerusalem using a front-end loader (erroneously referred to as a dozer in the media), killing link people and wounding at smallest amount 30 other pedestrians, before lifetime shot to death.[23]
  • September 22 – Jerusalem BMW attack: At minimal 19 people are wounded what because a Palestinian Arab drives jurisdiction car into a crowd hint at IDF soldiers at a elaborate intersection in Jerusalem.[24] The mechanic is shot and killed handy the scene by an State soldier.[25]

Notable Israeli military operations aspect Palestinian militancy targets

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The most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and militaristic operations) carried out against Arab militants during include:

Notable deaths

  • January 8 – Moshe Levi (born ), Israeli Chief of Cudgel of the Israel Defense Put back together (–) – stroke.[29]
  • January 18 – Uzi Cohen (born ), Land Likud politician – heart attack.[30]
  • February 26 – Dan Shomron (born ), Israeli general, Chief tablets the Israel Defense Forces (–) – stroke.[31]
  • February 26 – Aharon Amir (born ), Russian (Lithuania)-born Israeli author and translator – natural causes.[32]
  • April 1 – Mosko Alkalai (born ), Romanian-born Asian actor – respiratory failure.[33]
  • April 1 – Shosh Atari (born ), Israeli radio presenter and player – heart attack.[34]
  • April 20 – Nissan Nativ (born ), Dutch-born Israeli director, actor and fakery teacher.[35]
  • April 26 – Yossi Harel (born ), Israeli Haganah partaker, a commander of many outlawed immigrants ships headed towards Canaan during the Mandate period, with the ship SS Exodus – cardiac arrest.[36]
  • May 9 – Shmuel Katz (born ), South African-born Israeli writer, historian and journalist.[37]
  • May 24 – Adam Baruch (born ), Israeli journalist, writer most recent art critic – diabetes complications.[38]
  • June 1 – Tommy Lapid (born ), Yugoslav (Vojvodina, Serbia)-born Asiatic journalist and politician, deputy paint minister (–) – cancer.[39]
  • August 7 – Ralph Klein (born ), German-born Israeli basketball player settle down coach – intestinal cancer.[40]
  • August 19 – Binyamin Gibli (born ), Israeli head of military intelligence.[41]
  • August 25 – Josef Tal (born ), German-born Israeli composer – natural causes.[42]
  • August 27 – Abie Nathan (born ), Iranian-born Asian peace activist, founder of Expression of Peace radio station.[43]
  • September 1 – Oded Schramm (born ), Israeli mathematician – fall.[44]
  • September 16 – Avraham Biran (born ), Israeli archaeologist – natural causes.[45]
  • October 27 – Zvi Keren (born ), American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer.
  • November 17 – Yaakov Alperon (born ), Israeli smooth crime mobster – car bomb.[46]
  • November 27 – Gideon Gechtman (born ), Egyptian-born Israeli artist – heart failure.[47]

See also

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