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2016 in Israel
Summary
The following lists events in the year
2016 in Israel
.
←
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
Incumbents
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
edit
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
edit
December 12 – Israel received its first pair of
F-35 Lightning II
from the United States.
[2]
Deaths
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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
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Steinberg, Jessica (2016-05-14). "At Eurovision, Israel takes 14th – but an Israeli wins 6th".
The Times of Israel
.
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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.
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"Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80".
The Times of Israel
.