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2019 in Israel

Israel-related events during the year of 2019

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The following lists events in the year 2019 in Israel.

Incumbents[edit]

• President – Reuven Rivlin
• Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
• President of the Supreme Court – Esther Hayut
• Chief of General Staff – Aviv Kochavi
• Government of Israel – 34th government of Israel

Events[edit]

January[edit]

• January 24 – 2019 Judo Grand Prix Tel Aviv began

March[edit]

• March 25 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel.^[1]

April[edit]

• April 9 – April 2019 Israeli legislative election^[2]
• April 11 – Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes on the moon.^[3]

May[edit]

• 3–6 May – Gaza–Israel clashes (May 2019)^[4]
• 14–18 May – The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is held at the Expo Tel Aviv in Israel.
  • 18 May – Kobi Marimi represents Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “ Home”.^[5]

July[edit]

• 2–3 July – Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel

September[edit]

• September 17 – September 2019 Israeli legislative election

November[edit]

• 12–14 November – Gaza–Israel clashes (November 2019)^[6]

December[edit]

• 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.^[7]
• 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^[8]
• 31 December – Israel started extraction from the Leviathan gas field.^[9]

Deaths[edit]

• 7 January – Moshe Arens (b. 1925), aeronautical engineer, diplomat and politician.^[10]
• 25 January – Meshulam Riklis (b.1923), Turkish-born Israeli businessman.^[11]
• 1 February – Yosef Sorinov (b. 1946), footballer.
• 6 February – Yechiel Eckstein (b. 1951), Israeli-American rabbi.^[12]
• 14 February – Michael Nudelman(b. 1938), politician.
• 17 February – Ami Maayani (b. 1936), composer.
• 26 February – Yizhak Sadai ^[de] (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.^[13]
• 2 May – Micha Lindenstrauss (b. 1937), judge and State Comptroller.
• 4 June – Nechama Rivlin (b. 1945), First Lady of Israel.^[14]
• 7 July – Ora Namir (b. 1930), politician and diplomat.
• 18 October Meir Shamgar (b. 1925), jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• 8 December – Herbert Pundik (b. 1927), Danish-Israeli journalist and author.^[15]
• 18 December – Geulah Cohen (b. 1925), politician and activist.

See also[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2019 in Israel.

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

References[edit]

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