2019 in Israel
The following lists events in the year 2019 in Israel.
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Incumbents
- President – Reuven Rivlin
- Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
- Chief of General Staff – Aviv Kochavi
- Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel
Events
December: Protesters marched against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
January
- January 24 – 2019 Judo Grand Prix Tel Aviv began
March
- March 25 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel.[1]
April
- April 9 – April 2019 Israeli legislative election[2]
- April 11 – Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes on the moon.[3]
May
- 3–6 May – Gaza–Israel clashes (May 2019)[4]
- 14–18 May – Eurovision Song Contest 2019 held in Tel Aviv
July
- 2–3 July – Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel
September
- September 17 – September 2019 Israeli legislative election
November
- 12–14 November – Gaza–Israel clashes (November 2019)[5]
December
- 12 December — Israel will need to hold its third general election in less than a year. this is totally unprecedented in Israel's history. this is because of the apparent inability of any of the major parties to be able to form a governing coalition that would be decisive under the laws of Israel's parliamentary system. [6]
- 20 December — International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine announced by ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate alleged breaches by both sides in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict[7]
- 31 December – Israel started extraction from the Leviathan gas field.[8]
Deaths
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- 7 January – Moshe Arens, aeronautical engineer, diplomat and politician (b. 1925)[9]
- 25 January – Meshulam Riklis, Turkish-born Israeli businessman[10]
- 1 February – Yosef Sorinov, Israeli footballer (b. 1946)
- 6 February – Yechiel Eckstein, Israeli-American rabbi (b. 1951)[11]
- 14 February – Michael Nudelman, Israeli politician (b. 1938)
- 17 February – Ami Maayani, Israeli composer (b. 1936)
- 26 February – Yizhak Sadai, composer (b. 1935)
- 11 March – Danny Ben-Israel, Israeli musician
- 23 March – Rafi Eitan, spy and politician (born 1926)[12]
- 2 May – Micha Lindenstrauss, judge and State Comptroller (b. 1937)
- 4 June – Nechama Rivlin, First Lady of Israel (b. 1945)[13]
- 7 July – Ora Namir, politician and diplomat (b. 1930)
- 18 December – Geulah Cohen, politician and activist (b. 1925)
See also
References
- Trump, Donald J. (March 25, 2019). "Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel". The White House. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
- Wootliff, Raoul (December 24, 2018). "Early elections called for April 9 as coalition agrees to dissolve Knesset". The Times of Israel. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- "Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashes on Moon". BBC. April 11, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- "Palestinians report Gaza truce with Israel as violence ebbs". CNBC. May 6, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- "Israel kills top Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant in Gaza". BBC. November 12, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- Israel will hold unprecedented third election in a year, 12 December 2019, bbc.com.
- Ahren, Raphael (23 December 2019). "The Hague vs. Israel: Everything you need to know about the ICC Palestine probe". Times of Israel. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- "Israel gets first gas from Leviathan with exports to follow". Reuters. 2019-12-31.
- Aderet, Ofer (January 7, 2019). "Moshe Arens, Former Israeli Defense Minister and Liberal Likud Veteran, Dies at 93". Haaretz.
- Haring, Bruce; Haring, Bruce (26 January 2019). "Meshulam Riklis Dies: Pia Zadora Husband, Billionaire Involved In Golden Globes Scandal Was 95". deadline.com.
- Interfaith bridge builder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein dies of heart attack
- "Rafi Eitan, ex-minister and legendary spy who captured Eichmann, dies aged 92". The Times of Israel. March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
- Aderet, Ofer (June 4, 2019). "Nechama Rivlin, Wife of Israeli President, Dies at 73" – via Haaretz.
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