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

Moshe Arens

Nechama Rivlin

• 7 January – Moshe Arens (b. 1925), aeronautical engineer, diplomat and politician.[9]
• 25 January – Meshulam Riklis (b.1923), Turkish-born Israeli businessman.[10]
• 1 February – Yosef Sorinov (b. 1946), footballer.
• 6 February – Yechiel Eckstein (b. 1951), Israeli-American rabbi.[11]
• 14 February – Michael Nudelman(b. 1938), politician.
• 17 February – Ami Maayani (b. 1936), composer.
• 26 February – Yizhak Sadai (b. 1935), composer.
• 11 March – Yona Atari (b. 1933), singer and actress.
• 11 March – Danny Ben-Israel (b. 1944), musician.
• 23 March – Rafi Eitan (b. 1926), spy and politician.[12]
• 2 May – Micha Lindenstrauss (b. 1937), judge and State Comptroller.
• 4 June – Nechama Rivlin (b. 1945), First Lady of Israel.[13]
• 7 July – Ora Namir (b. 1930), politician and diplomat.
• 8 December – Herbert Pundik (b. 1927), Danish-Israeli journalist and author.[14]
• 18 December – Geulah Cohen (b. 1925), politician and activist.

See also

• 2019–20 Israeli constitutional crisis
• 2019–20 Israeli political crisis

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. "Israel's Beresheet spacecraft crashes on Moon". BBC. April 11, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
4. "Palestinians report Gaza truce with Israel as violence ebbs". CNBC. May 6, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
5. "Israel kills top Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant in Gaza". BBC. November 12, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
6. Israel will hold unprecedented third election in a year, 12 December 2019, bbc.com.
7. 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.
8. "Israel gets first gas from Leviathan with exports to follow". Reuters. 2019-12-31.
9. Aderet, Ofer (January 7, 2019). "Moshe Arens, Former Israeli Defense Minister and Liberal Likud Veteran, Dies at 93". Haaretz.
10. Haring, Bruce (26 January 2019). "Meshulam Riklis Dies: Pia Zadora Husband, Billionaire Involved In Golden Globes Scandal Was 95". deadline.com.
11. Interfaith bridge builder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein dies of heart attack
12. "Rafi Eitan, ex-minister and legendary spy who captured Eichmann, dies aged 92". The Times of Israel. March 23, 2019. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
13. Aderet, Ofer (June 4, 2019). "Nechama Rivlin, Wife of Israeli President, Dies at 73" – via Haaretz.
14. Tidligere Politiken-chefredaktør Herbert Pundik er død (in Danish)