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Israel-related events during the year of 2016
←
2015
2014
2013
2016
in
Israel
→
2017
2018
2019
Decades:
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also:
History of Israel
Timeline of Israel history
List of years in Israel
The following lists events in the year
2016 in Israel
.
Incumbents
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edit
]
President
–
Reuven Rivlin
Prime Minister
–
Benjamin Netanyahu
Government of Israel
–
34th government of Israel
President of the Supreme Court
–
Miriam Naor
Chief of General Staff
–
Gadi Eizenkot
Events
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January
[
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]
January 1 –
Tel Aviv shooting
February
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]
February 12-21 – Israel sent 2 athletes to the
2016 Winter Youth Olympics
March
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]
March 8 -
Tel Aviv stabbings
March 23 –
Yisrael Beitenu
formally joins the
Thirty-fourth government of Israel
March 24 –
Hebron shooting incident
May
[
edit
]
14 May –
Hovi Star
represents
Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest
with the song “
Made of Stars
”.
[1]
May 27 – First ever
Miss Trans Israel
June
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]
June 8 –
Tel Aviv shooting
July
[
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]
June 6-10 – Israel sent 17 athletes to the
2016 European Athletics Championships
June 28-August 6 –
Israel men's national lacrosse team
competed in the
2016 European Lacrosse Championship
, winning the silver medal.
August
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]
August 5–21 –
47 athletes from Israel
competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics
in
Rio de Janeiro
,
Brazil
August 29 - Opening of the
Migdal HaEmek – Kfar Baruch Railway Station
September
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]
September 1 –
AMOS 6
satellite is destroyed during launch testing
September 2-4 -
Israel national American football team
competed in the
European Championship of American football
for the first time, losing both of their games
September 7-18 - Israel sent 33 athletes to compete in the
2016 Summer Paralympics
September 13 –
Ofek 11
satellite launches from
Palmachim Airbase
September 23 - Israel qualified for the
2017 World Baseball Classic
November
[
edit
]
November 22 –
November 2016 Israel wildfires
December
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]
December 12 – Israel received its first pair of
F-35 Lightning II
from the United States.
[2]
Deaths
[
edit
]
February 13 –
Avigdor Ben-Gal
, general (b. 1936)
[3]
March 17 –
Meir Dagan
, army officer and
Mossad
Director-General. (b. 1945)
August 28 –
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
, general and politician (b. 1936)
[4]
September 28 –
Shimon Peres
, Former
Prime Minister of Israel
(b. 1923)
See also
[
edit
]
Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2016
References
[
edit
]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
2016 in Israel
.
Israel portal
Asia portal
Modern history portal
^
Steinberg, Jessica (2016-05-14).
"At Eurovision, Israel takes 14th – but an Israeli wins 6th"
.
The Times of Israel
.
^
Booth, William (December 12, 2016).
"Israel finally receives the first of its $5 billion order of U.S.-made F-35 jets"
.
The Washington Post
.
^
"אלוף במיל' אביגדור (יאנוש) בן-גל הלך לעולמו"
. 13 February 2016.
^
"Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80"
.
The Times of Israel
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